This website is such a potent radicalization machine. My whole feed is incendiary images from France paired w proclamations that this is a civilizational disaster'w/o any historical context at all. Just images & hysteria. I'd say we're doomed, but then I'd be playing along. 'Me on Twitter/X on Saturday evening The first thing to be said about the protests that consumed parts of France over this past weekend is that they took place in a country with a long history of (sometimes violent) street protests. Some of that unrest has at times even risen to revolutionary levels. (Perhaps you've heard about this.) How should these latest civic convulsions be assessed in light of that history, both long- and short-term' It seems that few American news outlets have an interest in providing their audience with that kind of context, even though such context is necessary for making informed judgments about what we're seeing. How bad is this' Is it terrible' Or trivial' Or something in between' The...
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