May ’68: What Legacy?

Since left wingers are praising the current riots as a continuation of a long French legacy, including 1968. But in reality the 1968 protests were incoherent and nihilistic

May ’68: What Legacy?
Fifty years later, the time has come to take a measured look at the student-led protests that shook Paris in May 1968 and have occupied the French political imagination ever since.

Of the hundreds of books and essays published about the events of May 1968 in Paris, one of my favorite remains the philosopher Raymond Aron’s La révolution introuvable, written as the events unraveled in July 1968. In this book, whose title translates to The Nowhere-to-Be-Found Revolution, the events are described as a tragicomedy in which “a verbal delirium with no casualties” placed bourgeois students with a “utopian negation of reality” and workers with authentic and legitimate demands on France’s center stage. Raymond Aron was critical of the student protest; however, he was also critical of the centralized Gaullist government, which had failed to anticipate the aspirations of a whole society. A fellow graduate of Jean-Paul Sartre at Ecole normale supérieure in the late twenties, Raymond Aron joined General de Gaulle in London as early as June 1940 and enrolled in the Free French forces. Aron and Sartre were often caught on opposite sides of arguments. Sartre was the committed, politically engaged intellectual of the Left, while Aron was the philosopher of the Right who preferred to observe events at a distance. Though Aron had more accurately predicted the course of Eastern Europe in the fifties through the eighties, it was nonetheless fashionable among French intellectuals to say, “Better be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron.” Sartre was more exciting company. He was a magnet for generations of thinkers, he had the sparkle of the perpetually angry man, while Aron had the calm of a pessimistic humanist.

Today, however, it is clear that Raymond Aron’s quiet yet acute dissection of les evénements of May ’68 offers the best entry point into a critique of ’68’s legacy. Many argue, like Aron, that May ’68 and its heritage are still nowhere to be found, impossible to define even fifty years later. 

The philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, who was teaching philosophy at the University of Strasbourg in 1968 and who therefore embraced the ’68 ideals (he lived with his family in a commune for a few years) argues that the reason there is no possible legacy of ’68 is because ’68 never ended. In an interview he gave in 2009, Jean-Luc Nancy declared, “We intimated that the society was changing, that the order had been broken … The course of history, of progress, of human emancipation, rational and in control of its own destiny, had been somehow diverted.” According to Nancy, we are still trying to find that new direction. For Jean-Luc Nancy, there was also something profoundly abstract at play: “The ’68 events were even more metaphysical and spiritual than they were social, political and cultural. The heart of the matter, those days’ incandescence, lies in the mutation that was taking place in western civilization.” Some call it postmodernism.

How do the generations who came after judge May ’68? Let’s take, for instance, the generation of French sociologists born in the seventies, the children of the young soixante-huitards. They have tried to look at May ’68 through a new lens, albeit perhaps still a biased one. Irène Pereira, a sociologist and a member of the radical libertarian trade union SUD, tends to see May ’68 as the mother of a form of protest and contestation that since the nineties has resurfaced and flourished in France and throughout the world. Known in France as altermondialistes, or anti-globalization movements, these range from the 1995 student and strike protest in France to the international Occupy movements, and they embrace direct (and at times violent) action as a way of influencing politics. For Christophe Prémat, another sociologist born in the seventies and a socialist French MP, it is worth going back to the Paris streets of 1968 to better understand what was at stake. Stuck between a rigid Gaullist power on one hand and the equally rigid and powerful Communist Party, the radical Left sought and succeeded in challenging the status quo. The students and workers’ insurrection aimed to break free of the twin stifling authorities of Gaullism and the Communist Party. May ’68 erupted therefore as an antiauthoritarian and spontaneous élan whose aim was to assert the individual’s autonomy and emancipation.

“At a superior level, the events of May denounced a double despotism, Sovietism, and the bureaucratic rationality of the industrial society,” Raymond Aron writes. However, he continues, “May ’68 failed to demonstrate that the self-governance of companies, universities, society, the end of hierarchies, and the abolition of separation between the masses and the decision makers, offered a radically original third way, something between a liberal Sovietism and a social-inclined capitalism.”

May ’68’s legacy can seem like one of disappointment—sometimes a bitter disappointment. For all the talk of a new society, May ’68 proved to be more of a jubilant vacuum, devoid of any tangible project, as sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky explains in 1983’s L’ère du vide (The Void Era). Worse, its cult of the individual might have accelerated the coming consumerist frenzy. Destroying the values of the old social order without replacing them with new ones left future generations terribly confused. If it is indeed “forbidden to forbid” as one famous May ’68 slogan had it, then where does that leave citizens today? For many critics, May ’68 created a social childishness whose favorite toy is rebellion or l’esprit de rébellion.

Raymond Aron puts this idea into historical and social context. “The French, since 1789, have always retroactively magnified their revolutions. Those moments of immense celebrations during which they allow themselves to experience what they refrained from doing in normal times give them an elating feeling of self-fulfilment, even if they know it is but a daydream. Such revolutions necessarily appear destructive, and are accompanied by the most extravagant projects, in a utopian negation of reality.” In his eyes, May ’68 was both anarchic and archaic. It set itself alongside a long tradition of national unwinding. Borrowing from Tocqueville and his views on the events of 1848, Raymond Aron points to the profound conservatism of French society, which needs momentary release, an imaginary antithesis to an otherwise consuming reality. In fact, President de Gaulle was himself an old resistant, and he likely had more in common with the activists than with the one million people who marched in his name on May 30, 1968, bringing the events of May to a close. May ’68 proved a successful social protest, but the rebellion lacked in political content. That is why, in Raymond Aron’s eyes, it is now nowhere to be found.

How do the generations born after 1968 overcome the individualistic and irresponsible aspects of the movement in order to find democratic passion and collective ideals? First of all, I would say, they can accept that May ’68 created a monster that we are still struggling with and eventually need to tame. In today’s public discourse, outrage very often replaces argument; self-proclaimed radicals oppose themselves to norms, morals, and institutions without offering alternatives. In a puerile and vain exercise, they place themselves comfortably outside the system instead of grappling with the issues from within the system. If anything, the epic failure of May ’68 has taught us that rebellions need a project, an aim that is detailed and practical. It is the only way they can succeed. Seen from Europe, the American students’ movement in favor of gun control has every chance to succeed: It is rational, legitimate, and coherent. Its aim is both tangible and achievable through legislation.

It is also time for feminists to question how liberating May ’68 truly was for women. It is widely assumed that sexual freedom as advocated by soixante-huitards led to the legalization of contraception and abortion and, more widely, measures that gave more rights to women in the workplace and at home, such as shared parental authority over children and the possibility of opening a bank account without a husband’s approval. This is undeniably true. However, sexual freedom, or the libertine ideology, was more often than not used by heterosexual men as a right to collect female lovers. The critic Philip Hensher, in a review of Richard Vinen’s book The Long ’68, which looks at events in France but also in Britain and the U.S., puts it this way:

’68 is, if anything, a shift from principle to personal inclination. The significance of personal inclination often seemed to depend on whose personal inclination it was. Radical students at Lanchester Polytechnic thought nothing of shouting ‘Fascist pig! Get her knickers off!’ at a visiting Mrs Thatcher in 1971. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers proposed that rape could be an insurrectionary act. Although feminists were a more significant part of the radical movement than they were of mainstream politics, they could not be guaranteed a warm welcome. The same was true of gay liberation movements, just beginning, and probably hardly recognised by the majority of heterosexual radicals.

May ’68 was an instant in time, a suspended poetic moment, an outcry of dreams dreamed out loud, a mutation from an older to a younger country. It is only by looking at May ’68 at the distance of fifty years, examining it openly, and admitting to its epic failures that the children of May ’68 can move forward, on to battles that are perhaps less poetic but hopefully more meaningful.

Links - 26th October 2026 (1 - French Migrant Riots [including Limoges])

Inevitable West on X - "🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France."
One cope is that it was only 1.5 centuries old, so that's not old for France

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen on X - "This is Limoges city hall. On fire.  Storming and setting fire to seats of democratic government is insurrectionary violence. No grievance gives anyone the right to do this.  Students have legitimate grievances. This violence is burying them. The missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and anxiety about the future disappear behind the destruction.  For a politics built on permanent confrontation, that can be useful. Mélenchon’s strategy connects separate grievances into a single indictment of the system. The confrontation becomes the cause.   And violence feeds on perceived weakness. When the state appears to have disappeared, people test its limits. Each retreat invites another challenge. A kind of madness takes hold: destroying the institutions we depend on comes to look like liberation.  I wrote in June that democracy rests on a promise: that the state is strong enough to guarantee everyone the same protection, the same rights and the same rules. When that promise breaks, the consequences extend far beyond security.  Fear spreads. People protect themselves because they no longer trust that they will be protected together. They retreat into their group, their community, their identity. Those promising order gain ground. Distrust replaces the confidence that makes a common life possible.  And is exploited by all those, inside and outside the country, who want to see it burn! "

Dr. Ricardo Duchesne on X - "It does not matter if every historical building in France is burned; the Republican ideal that France must be a multiracial nation will never be abandoned.   The mayor of Limoges (where this building was burned) has already responded: "It is a monument that burns, but not the Republic."   As with every prior riot, the burning will be interpreted  as i) an act of "delinquency against property and order," and ii) as yet another demonstration that more needs to be done to integrate immigrants.    The principle that France is a purely civic nation where Africans and Moslems can become the majority ----------- remains the only unburnable principle.  This is the code of the liberal political subsystem.   The code of the post-Fordist economic system does not observe the burning of historic buildings as "cultural erasure" -- but as opportunities for reconstruction contracts, limbic modernization, and circulation of global capital through creative destruction.  As my theory predicts, the great replacement is "locked in". Liberalism and capitalism coexist across the West in a state of mutual reinforcement.
(1) The Republican ideal of multiracialism will be protected from vandalism and integration will be reinforced.
(2) The post Fordist model will make the most of the burning of dated buildings, perhaps by building a new soccer stadium where African players can bring the nation back together, a sports spectacle as a civic festival."

Brivael Le Pogam on X - "Il y aura un avant et un après le 17 octobre 2026.  Qu'on arrête de nous raconter que la jeunesse française s'est soulevée pour une école en panne. C'est faux.  L'immense majorité des lycéens n'était pas dans la rue samedi. Si on lui demandait son avis, elle dirait qu'elle veut étudier, bosser, construire sa vie. La majorité silencieuse ne brûle pas des mairies.  Ce qu'on a vu samedi, ce n'est pas une révolte sociale. C'est une instrumentalisation totale. Des structures radicalisées qui utilisent des gamins de 16 ans comme bouclier moral et des revendications légitimes comme paravent.  Mais il faut comprendre d'où ça vient.  Pendant 20 ans, le bloc central a gouverné main dans la main avec le globalisme bruxellois. Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, la Commission, les mêmes réflexes, le même mépris pour les nations, la même certitude d'avoir raison contre les peuples. Ils ont laissé l'immigration se gérer toute seule. Ils ont laissé l'école s'effondrer. Ils ont laissé la vie devenir hors de prix. Et chaque fois que quelqu'un osait le dire, ils le traitaient de raciste, de facho, d'extrême droite.  Ce système a fabriqué le chaos. Et aujourd'hui, c'est l'extrême gauche qui le récolte.  Voilà l'intrication que personne ne veut nommer. Le centre globaliste a créé le vide. L'extrême gauche s'y est engouffrée, en s'appuyant sur une immigration mal gérée et une jeunesse qu'on a abandonnée. Les deux se détestent en apparence. En réalité, l'un produit les fractures, l'autre les exploite. Et les deux ont un ennemi commun : ceux qui disaient la vérité depuis le début.  Samedi, des millions de Français ont regardé les images. L'hôtel de ville de Limoges en feu. Un poste de police saccagé à Marseille. Des journalistes agressés à Paris. Et ils ont compris : ceux qu'on faisait taire décrivaient simplement la réalité.  C'est pour ça que je suis optimiste.  On est à l'aube d'une prise de conscience globale. Je le dis depuis longtemps : on va vivre un nouveau 1989. Les empires du mensonge ne tombent pas sous les coups. Ils tombent le jour où plus personne n'y croit.  La France tombera la première. Mais elle tombera la première pour se relever la première. La fin du globalisme incarné par Macron et von der Leyen ne sera pas la fin de l'Occident. Ce sera sa renaissance.  Le 17 octobre, quelque chose s'est brisé. Pas la France. Le mensonge.  On s'en souviendra."

readonly on X (Translated) - "The magnificent town hall of Limoges is burning, set ablaze by the immigrant mob.  And no, it wasn’t the schoolbooks that were boring, but rather hatred and contempt toward our Western way of life are exploding here.  One searches in vain for decisive resistance from the government or the military. Macron has gone to ground.  No doubt about it: The country is being abandoned. Deliberately and with eyes wide open, handed over to the marauding mob.  The government knows what it’s doing, and the rioters understand this language.  Look at conquered countries, then you’ll know what awaits the European nations."

Bernie on X - "The fact Macron even thinks he can survive this tells you everything you need to know about arrogant globalists. Hello France … you have no money, shrinking industry, massive welfare,huge waves of migrants, who don’t care about you or your survival. And this is how it ends 🔥"

Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "At what point do we start calling the anarchy in France an Intifada? Don’t forget: first they came for the Jews, now for the rest.
FRANCE: Rioters set fire to the historic City Hall in Limoges, burning its roof and collapsing the clock tower. Built in 1883, the 143-year-old landmark survived two world wars and was designated a protected historical monument in 1975. It’s gone now."

Baronen af Øresund on X (Translated) - "Sisse Marie Welling (SF), mayor of Copenhagen:  "All over the world, the right wing has put democracy under pressure in recent years"  The same day as this statement, far-left extremists set Limoges town hall ablaze and loot the town hall in Marseille.  And moreover, the same day that far-left extremists created fear and terror in the streets around Copenhagen's town hall."

Afshine Emrani MD FACC on X - "France imported Khomeini to Iran. France supported Palestinian terrorists against Israel.  France invited Islamists with open arms. Now France pays.  I have ZERO compassion for the people who voted for this. These are NOT unhappy students.  Don't let the media lie to you.  These are Islamists who want to turn the entire West upside down.  Limoges has a 140-year-old landmark literally burning through its roof tonight. Marseille had protesters battering their way right into City Hall. Across half a dozen cities, police cruisers are being torched and sirens are cutting through tear gas.   And the official response? Years of political seminars, nervous committees, and officials acting completely stunned every time the temperature hits boiling point.  Here’s the reality check: you can’t run a major European country on autopilot, ignore fractured communities and broken trust, and then play surprised when masked mobs start lighting historic timber on fire. When a state can’t even secure its own municipal buildings in broad daylight, the problem isn't theoretical anymore.  So tell me again—is this the part where leadership holds another press conference to condemn "unacceptable acts," or is someone actually going to restore order before there's nothing left to govern?"
Left wing logic: "It’s the far right causing riots to make the peaceful protestors look bad." Amazing. Just when you thought they couldn't get any crazier.

Mike Lee on X - "Nothing says “we just want better textbooks” quite like burning down a national treasure"

Meme - Bob Zimmerman @Spinoza1229: "we are getting very close to "if you believe I shouldn't burn down your house right now you are a colonist and a bigot""
Claire @ClaireFosterPHD: "Take notes tonight of which people care more about buildings than they do about people. Those are your enemies."

Meme - Alice Gribbin @asgribbin: "I don't know if young people appreciate that it used to be just your few anarchist friends with daddy issues who said shit like this. Now it's like half the professional managerial class"
"Anyone crying about the loss of priceless monuments, buildings, art: these monuments were built from stolen wealth and materials from exploited colonies, and maintained by the taxes, labor, and will of the working class. It belongs to the people and will fall for the people"

Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "“What’s the point of a beautiful tower when the majority have nothing.”  Think about how poisonous this mindset is for a second.  Until leftists get everything they want they reserve the right to incinerate the Louvre."
littlebear36 @littlebear36_: "people will say "what a shame" over these buildings. But what is the point of a beautiful tower when the majority have nothing?"
"Historic town hall ablaze in Limoges, France, amid nationwide unrest"
The left wing will burn down everything if they don't get everything they want (and they will never get everything they want, because their wishlist is endless), and those who oppose their violence and nihilism are the bad people

Brivael Le Pogam on X - "Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.
Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.  And then came Limoges.  A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.  The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."  That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.  None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.  Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.
My dear American friends,  I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.  It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.  Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.  France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.  My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.  Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will."

Meme - Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: "Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux   🇫🇷"
Damn police! They deserve to be set on fire for their racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia! ACAB!

Darren Adams on X - "🔥 Suicidal Empathy in action - white European firefighter is set alight in French migrant riots.  👨‍🚒   Bordeaux France, 29 September 2026.  2nd and 3rd generation migrant students set fire to structures on Rue Sainte-Catherine near Lycée Montaigne. A firefighter trying to extinguish the blaze is engulfed by an explosion that sets him alight.💥  The firefighter suffered burns to his legs and body, and was taken to hospital. 🏥"

Meme - "AND THEN SUDDENLY, IT DAWNED ON US. PALESTINE WOULD NOT BE FREE UNTIL EVERY STUDENT HAD A LOUIS VUITTON HANDBAG"

Angry French Students Loot Louis Vuitton in Search of More Teachers and Better Schools, Find Neither • Genesius Times
The other cope, of course, is that Israel is to blame

Brandon Gill on X - "What's happening in France is the progressive political agenda at its natural conclusion. When you build a massive welfare state while increasing your population through third-world migration, it isn't long before basic social order collapses."

Opinion | The French Fantasy Is Coming to an End - The New York Times - "The students’ determination to voice their anger and frustration over the future is a necessary and courageous reminder that we all need to be facing facts and acting on them. On my bike ride home from République on Saturday, I encountered an impromptu gathering of students singing “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem. As they passed the intersection, some set down bikes and other objects to block cars and make the trip more difficult for everyone. That’s as it should be, I thought, as I navigated past the makeshift barricades. Against the backdrop of so many destructive forces, none of us, anywhere, should be allowed to proceed easily. Since late spring, a series of calamities, in quick succession, have taken a battering ram to the fantasy that Paris is some sort of respite from the problems plaguing the world... The spectacle of haute couture shows held in the extreme heat felt especially grotesque"
It's rich to say we need to face facts, then refuse to, and then cheer on disorder to boot. But then, left wingers romanticise Revolution despite its disaster
Left wingers say you should let people enjoy things, but get very upset when other people enjoy things

Unai Cano on X (Translated) - "🔴 BREAKING NEWS | A TVE journalist reports live from Paris on the riots, and a group of North Africans heckle her, make a throat-slitting gesture at the camera, and cut off the broadcast.  Once again, the left swallowing its own narrative."
Dave Rubin on X - "Just kids who need a little more funding for school books, guys.."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A new investigation reveals that far-left groups, pro-Palestine activists and Islamic organizations helped coordinate protests across France that have caused unprecedented destruction. Of 54 groups identified, just 16 were student or youth-led."
Plus some of the student/youth-led groups are far-left groups, pro-Palestine and/or Islamic
Left wingers are mocking conservatives for being stupid and propagandised for thinking the "peaceful protests" are Islamoleftist riots. But of course they are proudly ignorant

France student protests backed by 54 communist and socialist groups - "a communist leader and academic, Vijay Prashad, celebrated the unrest with a message linking protests across three continents.  "Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires," Prashad posted on X, borrowing a line from the British punk band The Clash: "Let fury have the hour, anger can be power."  Prashad was important not only for what he said, but for who he is: executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by an American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai.  The message captured how France's riots have become part of a wider international narrative of rebellion — a kind of "Chaos Inc." — amplified by a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations stretching from Europe to Asia, Australia, Africa and South America and North America. A Fox News Digital investigation has identified 54 organizations and movements in France's October student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets.  Of the 54 organizations identified in the October protest ecosystem, 16 — or only about one in three — are student or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim student association. The remaining 38 include adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy groups and international propaganda outlets.  They include Gilets jaunes, or "Yellow Vests," a radical far-left group that led protests with other groups this weekend, and far-left socialist political party La France Insoumise (LFI), or France Unbowed.  From the outset, far-left socialist and communist organizations helped organize and amplify France’s student revolt, using grievances over school conditions as a pretext to mobilize a broader political struggle against capitalism, government austerity, policing and military spending. In a sign of unrest to come, France is inspiring an expansion of Chaos Inc.  Fox News Digital has learned an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth and organizations are galvanizing students and youth for a coordinated strike across 12 countries in Europe under the slogan "Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!" They are calling for walkouts, demonstrations, assemblies, blockades and occupations.  Among the international amplifiers for this mayhem are organizations within the Singham network, including Tricontinental, named for a communist convention in Havana, Cuba, in 1966, CodePink and BreakThrough News, a New York-based media outlet, which promoted coverage of the weekend's mayhem in France with the headline: "ANTI-MACRON PROTESTS ROCK FRANCE."   It shared a montage of chaotic scenes from Montpellier, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Saint-Étienne, showing activists engulfed in smoke, Palestinian flags flapping above the crowds, black smoke billowing over flames and police hitting demonstrators with clubs. Its editors added a soundtrack of dramatic music. Its videos include politicians from the far-left socialist political party La France Insoumise (LFI). In an interview with BreakThrough News, Jodie Evans, Singham's wife and co-founder of a far-left group he funded, CodePink, promoted a planned November campaign in Washington opposing U.S. military spending.  She explicitly invoked youth demonstrations abroad, including France, Spain and India, while urging Americans to participate in CodePink's campaign.  "I want people to look at France, Spain and India," Evans said, urging Americans to take to the streets."

Melissa Chen on X - "In the 1950s and early 1960s, when Singapore was still a young and vulnerable state, Lee Kuan Yew faced a serious communist threat.   “United front” organizations had infiltrated trade unions, student groups, cultural associations, and political parties. Their methods were classically Leninist - they worked inside legal institutions, exploited both real and manufactured grievances, posed as democrats in public while recruiting quietly in private, and steadily eroded institutions in order to seize power and impose a totalitarian system.  Lee dealt with the communist threat by detaining suspected communists and their united front leaders without trial under the Internal Security Act and publicly exposed their subversive tactics; he secured merger with anti-communist Malaya to place internal security under stronger control (which further centralized power).  This is relevant to what's happening today in the West where you have open democratic systems, free association, free speech, and grievance politics which creates the perfect ecosystem for a disciplined united front operation to thrive.   This is what @AsraNomani  has found - networks of socialist, communist, Trotskyist, and anti-capitalist organizations coordinating protests across Europe, amplified by external actors with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.  They don't identify loudly as communists. Instead, they embed in unions, student groups, NGOs, media, and political parties; they amplify grievances such as public spending, austerity, climate, Israel, while directing them toward systemic overthrow; and they use the host society’s own rules and institutions against it until the balance of power shifts.   Lee Kuan Yew argued that once the organizational capacity and ideological resolve exist, soft societies that treat every riot as purely organic or as an earnest and sincere expression of political will, will be in for a rude awakening.   This is the map of the organized communist subversion and it's probably just the tip of the iceberg:"

Heather Mac Donald on X - "The mainstream media are fuming. Marine Le Pen, head of France’s most popular party, National Rally, is exploiting the French riots for her political advantage, the media grouse. Le Pen and her right-hand man, Jordan Bardella, portray the riots as the confirmation of everything they have been warning about for years, especially regarding Third World immigration. This is a ruse, complains the press and its establishment sources, a mere rhetorical trick.  A front-page article in today’s New York Times quotes a political scientist at Paris’s Sciences Po: “The picture of France emerging this morning, in light of all the destruction, plays well into their hands.”  The Wall Street Journal sounds the same note today: “The social instability over the weekend absolutely plays into Le Pen’s campaign that the establishment has delivered chaos,” said Mujtaba Rahman, from the risk analysis firm Eurasia Group.  Even the papers’ headlines echo each other: “France’s Far Right Seizes the Moment as Rioting Stuns the Country” (New York Times); “Marine Le Pen Seizes on French Chaos to Present Herself as Leader in Waiting” (Wall Street Journal).  It is necessary to deconstruct these far-right narratives; thankfully, the press is there to help us. The violence “perfectly aligned with the image the National Rally has long painted of a France divided into two and battling for survival,” a political science professor at the University of Nice, Côte d’Azur told the New York Times.  The Wall Street Journal writes that the “far-right” Le Pen has “cast” France as a nation adrift, “buffeted by waves of immigration and lawlessness that have torn at the country’s social fabric.”  It is mere coincidence that that image of a divided, degraded France constructed by the National Rally and the violence on the streets seem to align. That alignment does not mean that the National Rally was right, just that its demagogy was opportune.  But the waves of hate-filled destruction crashing over France’s once great cities validate Le Pen and Bardella’s diagnosis of France’s demographic catastrophe, not as narrative but as empirical fact. The Wall Street Journal again tries to dismiss Le Pen’s prognostications as a rhetorical maneuver: “Le Pen’s anti-immigration stance...gives her another way to frame the unrest. Le Pen has cast the unrest as the work of far-left radicals allied with youths from France’s banlieues, the poor urban outskirts where much of the country’s minority Muslim population resides.” How else would the Journal “cast” the “unrest?” As the work of lavender harvesters from Provence?  The elite effort at euphemism is by now desperate: “The looting drew attention to a segment of the population—specifically young people from certain neighborhoods, some of whom are from immigrant backgrounds,” pollster Adélaïde Zulfikarpasic told the Journal. “And that hits the themes at the heart of National Rally’s rhetoric.”  A conversation on German public media station ZDF yesterday between the ever-pinched and purse-lipped anchor Marietta Slomka and a French academic in Bonn referred delicately to the “decades-long problem” of poverty, concentration, and “integration” in the Plattenbauten (the concrete slab housing projects) around Paris. The problem is not “integration,” which suggests a failing in the host country, however, it is large-scale Third World immigration, which has turned many of these projects into no-go zones. And now that local anarchy is spreading.  If naming a deliberate attack on Western civilization by those who feel only resentment and envy earns one the title of far-right extremist or racist, so be it. The mayhem in France is not rhetoric, it is reality. And the National Rally’s law enforcement and deportation proposals are precisely what France and the rest of Europe need today."

T w I t t e r on X - "Most people in France can't afford housing. They didn't blame immigrants, or transgender people, or video games, or avocado toast. They blame the government. Because that's who's responsible. That's always who's responsible."
Left wingers have an external locus of control and can't take responsibility for their own lives. That's why they want the government do take charge of everything
Weird, France made housing a right in 2007 like left wingers keep demanding. Guess that didn't work so well

Meme - Keith Malinowski: "PSA for Americans"
"Most people in France can't afford housing. They didn't blame immigrants, or transgender people, or video games, or avocado toast. They blame the government. Because that's who's responsible. That's always who's responsible."
"How is the government responsible for obtaining housing for me? I want the freedom to choose my housing. I don't want the government telling me where I have to live. This is ridiculous !!"
"why are you stupid?"
"So burning buildings will make things cheaper"
"not sure how you think people got their rights in our history, but it wasn't being a racist fuck."
Left wingers have no sense of responsibility and want everything free, and they're stupid and simultaneously claim the government should provide housing while one of the biggest governments in the world (as measured by share of GDP) has failed in that.
Left wing logic: If you don't want the government controlling where you live, you're stupid. If you think burning down buildings doesn't make housing cheaper, you're racist

Visegrád 24 on X - "A French left-wing activist mocked those whose livelihoods had been destroyed by violent rioters and looters over the past few days.  “Your little shops, that’s real cute,” said Lola-Fleur Whittaker, who defended the rioters during a French television debate.  Whittaker tried to draw sympathy, stating that her mother is an English teacher who eats cookies for lunch because she can't “pay for the cafeteria.”  However, online users quickly found Whittaker’s social media profiles, where she posts pictures of herself vacationing in places like Oman, the island of Ré, Sicily, the Greek islands, Malaysia, and Egypt.  She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, and she offers French lessons for €53 per 50-minute lesson on the platform Preply, where she has already taught 1,709 classes."

France is divided over who to blame for weekend riots - "I'd stopped Elisabeth and her friend to ask their thoughts on what happened on Saturday. Elisabeth was so upset that, when she spoke, she seemed close to tears.  "My friend thinks this is civil war in France but I don't. Saturday is about something else entirely."... Different theories are doing the rounds - in and outside France. Black and white answers may be appealing, but the truth is there are many factors at play.  The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, has proposed a parliamentary inquiry into the riots and how they were organised.  French intelligence had briefed government circles earlier this month that left-wing anarchist groups were involved in the student protests. Their signature: a capital A, circled in black, was spray-painted on many buildings across France this weekend.  French media have played and replayed a video shot on Saturday showing groups of young men dressed in black, with a black, folded kerchief around their face to hide their identity, apparently attacking a number of police vans with what look like large hammers or machetes.  A French intelligence report dated 29 September, published by Le Figaro newspaper, details the "manipulation" of student demonstrations by student unions and political movements aligned with the radical left.  It suggests the far-left political movement La France Insoumise (LFI) was relying on violence as an electoral strategy ahead of the 2027 presidential elections. LFI denies this. The mass looting of what is said to be over 3,000 shops and businesses on Saturday appears to have been largely opportunistic, according to French reports. Many youngsters immediately went online trying to sell their stolen wares, including designer trainers. Some didn't bother to cover their faces. Did they feel a sense of impunity?... Belgium has also been experiencing violent protests these last days. On Tuesday, Belgium's interior minister, Bernard Quintin, warned of the "TikTokisation" of violence. Footage of riots is widely shared on social media, reaching a large audience of impressionable young people, he said, while also blaming violence on the streets of Brussels and Liège on "known far-left groups".  In France, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez have also clearly implicated the "hard left" in Saturday's mayhem - "pouring oil onto the fire", said Nuñez. On Tuesday Lecornu spoke of "insurrections" planned by "small far-left and ultra-left groups".  Previously he had accused the "far left" of weaponising student demos... Following accusations of heavy-handedness at earlier demos, the police seemed very much out of their depth this weekend."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that the French press, French people and French politicians all tell us it's about the cost of living
Weird. Left wingers tell us that the far left just wants equal rights and free healthcare for everyone
Of course, left wingers keep going on about "police brutality" but don't care about "protesters" setting firemen on fire

Links - 25th October 2026 (2 - Cornell "Rape")

Meme - Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul: "Choosing to have a drink is not consent, and it’s never a license for sexual assault. New York law should reflect that. I support closing the voluntary intoxication loophole and will work with the Legislature to get it done."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "There is no law in New York saying choosing to drink means consenting to sex. Current New York law says voluntary intoxication does not invalidate an individual's ability to give consent, as it does not meet the state's standard of "mentally incapacitated"."

Covfefe Anon on X - "The actual governor of NY State is retarded
"choosing to have a drink is not consent"
Yes - her consenting was consent
The excuse is "she couldn't consent because she was intoxicated" *which isn't even legally true* (as the community note points out)
I assume she'll be "working with the legislature" to fully implement the "all sex is rape" law so we can finally have a legal regime that reflects liberal emotions"

Random HVAC Guy 🇺🇸 on X - "“I never lie” This is why i believe that Jane Doe is lying. She claimed she was 10 shots in and too drunk to consent to anything and yet she’s 100% sure that her recollection is the truth because she “never lies”. Anyone who says they never lie, is lying."

Mario Nawfal on X - "🇺🇸 The Cornell “Jane Doe” story just got another pretty significant twist. Moonies Bar, which Jane Doe is suing for allegedly serving her alcohol while visibly intoxicated, says it didn't serve her alcohol at all. She was 20 at the time. That also lines up with fraternity member Matthew Ingalls' account that she told him she was sober before arriving at the fraternity house, something she disputed in a recorded call. Every new detail in this case seems to raise more questions about the original story. So what actually happened?
Source: TMZ / Writer: Lynn"

Curtis Houck on X - "INSANE: 'CBS Mornings' touts Instagram and TikTok videos of parents talking to their preschoolers and elementary schoolers about the #Cornell7 and how they need to teach little boys at that age not to assault and rape women, and little girls to reject unwanted advances. DERANGED!"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "It's their new hands up don't shoot and has everything to do with engineering midterm outcomes."

Marine’s family reports threats after ‘Cornell 7’ lawsuit mix-up - "A Marine Corps sergeant’s family said they have been subjected to abuse after the service member was served with a lawsuit meant for one of the accused in a Cornell University sexual assault case — all because the two share the same name. Sgt. Matthew Ingalls, 23, is a New York native, and he has never attended the Ivy League university. He was also already serving on active duty in the Marine Corps at the time of an alleged October 2024 assault that has put Cornell in the national spotlight. But when his family answered a knock at the door of their New York home the evening of Sept. 26, his mother, Victoria Ingalls, was handed a 101-page civil lawsuit intended for someone with the same name as her son, The Free Press first reported Thursday. The intended recipient was among the seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity accused of sexually assaulting a female student. “My family’s been terrorized, threatened, and harassed,” Victoria Ingalls told The Free Press. The family had begun receiving unusual messages just before the lawsuit arrived, Ingalls told Stars and Stripes in an interview Saturday. “[Matthew] started getting a lot of messages asking him if he ever went to Cornell, calling him a rapist, all kinds of crazy aggressive messages,” Victoria said. “Then my daughter was getting messages as well, and she didn’t know what was going on.”... She said telling people they had contacted the wrong family did not always stop the messages. “The people that are posting his address, that are saying, ‘I will find you. I will end you. I will kill you,’ types of things are the scariest,” Ingalls said. Victoria Ingalls said the family has received a slew of threatening texts after the family’s phone numbers were leaked. Several to her 26-year-old daughter additionally portrayed threats of death and assault."
Rapists need to be held accountable!!!
Harassment, much less of unquestionably innocent people, is good when it pushes the left wing agenda

Michael Shermer on X - "Cornell reports "35% of surveyed undergraduate women experienced nonconsensual sexual contact involving physical force, threats, or incapacitation while enrolled at the university." This is a shocking figure. Is Cornell closing? Has the National Guard been invoked? Why are women still attending? Why are parents still paying for their daughters to attend? There's something off here."

Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Women kept sending death threats and hate mail to the wrong Winston Lee so he emailed their employers with copies of their messages lol. What a stud"

Bridget Ayers on X - "Cornell Hearing Panel Decision - New Details, Conflicting Accounts & Physical Evidence
So far, I’ve worked through Jane Doe's civil complaint, the DA's summary of her six-page sworn statement, reported portions of her two-day police interview, excerpts from Cornell's Title IX investigation and now a heavily redacted, 99-page Cornell Hearing Panel Decision. This report filled in some gaps, but was also difficult to navigate with all the redactions. Cornell's investigation was extensive, more than 50 interviews involving 32 witnesses, followed by a multi-day hearing in May 2025. The panel applied a preponderance of the evidence, or “more likely than not,” standard, not the criminal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
Invitations, Body Flexes & a Negative Drug Test:
- Doe described having strong romantic and sexual feelings for Ingalls and later described that attraction as having a “chokehold” on her, saying she would have done “anything to please [him].”
- The panel considered the first threesome consensual. The decision also says Doe and one of the two men were already friends and had engaged in sexual activity together previously. Based on the chronology, I believe that person is Newell, although the name is redacted.
- Whether Doe took ketamine around the time of that first threesome was disputed.
- Doe acknowledged she had no independent memory of taking it the first time. Her belief that she did, came from taking ketamine later and remembering thinking, essentially, I've already done this once tonight.
- The men gave conflicting accounts. At one point, one said Doe declined ketamine and they didn't push her. Later, he testified that they offered it and “she chose to take it.” The panel ultimately found it more likely than not that she did take ketamine during that earlier period.
The panel found Doe's inability to remember taking it consistent with the effects of ketamine and viewed that as supporting her credibility, while inconsistencies in the men's accounts reduced theirs.
This report brings more clarity to the timeline:
~1:00 a.m., Lopes enters.
Just after 2:00 a.m., another man enters and consumes ketamine off Doe's body.
~2:15 a.m., another enters, kisses Doe and consumes ketamine off her body.
~2:30 a.m., additional respondents enter.
~5:00 a.m., Doe, Ingalls and Lee leaving the alumni room for the fourth-floor “Pentz” and then the smaller “foffice”. After the final sexual encounter, Doe slept in one man's bed before returning to her residence.
The report also provides more context for the Snapchat message. “Free pussy in alum pu”. The panel concluded that “alum” meant the alumni room and “pu” meant “pull up” - in other words, an invitation to come to the room.
The panel didn't necessarily find every man who entered the room sexually assaulted Doe. For at least one respondent, the panel concluded that simply going to the room because of the Snapchat message constituted attempted sexual exploitation. Its reasoning was that he understood a woman was likely nude or engaged in sexual activity and entered intending to observe it without her knowledge or consent.
Ketamine off her body
This section gets especially messy because the accounts conflict. Doe said she agreed when one man asked to take ketamine off her body. She described lying down and covering her face while multiple people subsequently took drugs off her body. Because her face was covered, however, she couldn't actually identify everything everyone did. She later described two of the men as essentially “voyeurs”, except that she believed they had also done drugs off her body. One man's account was very different. He said two men entered, introduced themselves and Doe invited them in. He said they heard about others doing ketamine off her chest, asked Doe whether they could do the same, “She said yeah, so they did.” That same account contains another detail I haven't seen discussed much:
Doe reportedly got out of the bed and began doing a “bodybuilder pose.” Another account describes her “flexing her muscles to everybody in the room.”
These accounts of what Doe was doing and communicating during portions of a period are described very differently in her civil complaint. The complaint alleges that when additional men entered, Doe hid her naked body under the sheets and “felt as if there was no way for her to escape this room full of predatory, fraternity men.” It later alleges that she became “completely incapacitated.” Her attorney has similarly described her as “intoxicated to the point of incapacity.”
And then there's the drug test. One respondent consistently denied taking ketamine in the room. He submitted an Omega Laboratories hair-follicle test, with the sample collected November 26, 2024. It came back negative for ketamine. He testified that laboratory personnel told him ketamine could remain detectable in hair for three to six months. Another person testified that a different testing company told him hair testing could detect ketamine for up to 90 days. The panel considered that negative test along with the conflicting witness accounts and concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish that this respondent had consumed ketamine off Doe's body. That's significant because Doe said he had. It doesn't mean Doe was lying. Her own account explains why identification would be difficult; she said her face was covered while multiple people were around her. But it is an example of an allegation being tested against other evidence and the evidence not supporting it sufficiently even under Cornell's lower more-likely-than-not standard.
In some places, the panel believed Doe over the respondents. In others, it found the evidence insufficient to substantiate what she believed happened. In still others, it found misconduct that wasn't sexual assault, including attempted sexual exploitation based on why someone entered the room. And that's probably the most useful thing about reading the actual decision. There are consensual sexual encounters. There are disputed sexual encounters. There are admitted drugs. Disputed drugs. Memory gaps. Contradictory statements. Snapchat messages. People entering and leaving. Witnesses describing Doe talking, laughing, and interacting. Doe describing periods of dissociation and missing memory. And at least one piece of objective evidence, a negative drug test, that caused the panel to reject part of an allegation. And it's exactly why I keep reading the documents instead of picking a side from the headlines."
Even with the reduced standard they didn't think there was rape. But of course the lynch mob doesn't care

Nation's College Students Worried Cornell Incident Will Ruin Ketamine-Fueled Campus Orgies For Everyone Else | Babylon Bee

‘Cornell 7’ frat bro claimed accuser ‘sodomized’ him, school didn’t care he was sex-assault ‘survivor’ - "“You received information that I was sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November, and you never once thought to alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault?” Ingalls said in the February 2025 missive to Cornell’s Title IX office and obtained by ABC. “The very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears: that this process is rolled [sic] with gender discrimination”... Ingalls was also drinking and drugging heavily that night — with a 2024 statement from Doe describing how he kept falling asleep during the encounter before waking up to rejoin the alleged assault."
Left wingers are sexist hypocrites so they just apply double standards to this. Victims are only to be believed when they push the left wing agenda

Thread by @ASFleischman on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "So let's talk about the degrees of rape in New York, what is required for each, and why Jane Doe's statements to police make this an unappealing prosecution. And to get ahead of this: things can be both hard to prosecute under existing law and morally wrong.
New York has three degrees of rape:
First degree: Requires forcible compulsion or being "physically helpless." Physically helpless means unconscious or unable to communicate consent. She was conscious. She said "what happened to just you and me." Not helpless under NY law.
Second degree rape requires being mentally incapacitated or disabled. But New York law excludes consensual intoxication. So if you snort ketamine, get drunk, and have sex, you are not disabled. Someone has to slip it to you. No second degree.
Third degree rape requires sex with who does not consent. Victim must CLEARLY state lack of consent. Here, by victim's own account, she does not seem to clearly state lack of consent.
Ok, so this is not a case of prosecutors refusing to bring a case because they're just assholes who hate women. New York law requires that a woman be either physically helpless OR drugged against her will OR clearly deny consent. Hard to say any of those apply here BRD. That's not to say it's completely hopeless. You could bring a first degree charge here and say that at some point late in the night, probably during that last threesome, she become physically incapable of consent. But much easier if you can say she was drugged, not a user. And by far the worst fact is that it seems whenever Jane Doe indicated a lack of consent, the sex stopped. That fucks prosecutors on both first degree (she can say no) and third (she chose not to).
I think that if charges are brought against these men, they will probably reach a favorable plea bargain or be acquitted. Maybe there's some federal angle I'm not considering. But this does seem to be a very defensible case that prosecutors were right to spurn.
To anyone out there who strongly disagrees with me, just let me know which degree of rape you would charge for which sex act, so we can compare it with the victim's statement. If it can't clear THAT hurtle, imagine how hard it is once the defendants present their evidence. And, to close out, you definitely shouldn't have sex with a girl along with your six of your buddies after she had a bunch of drinks and some ketamine. You should get her back home, or to a private room, and guard the door. This was disgraceful."

Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says
When people talk about Jane Doe being Lucy Craig, we get told that that's fake news, that no one knows who she is, that it's been proven Lucy Craig is not her, that the person who exposed her admitted he was wrong (even if two people independently did so) etc. Yet there have been no stories about someone being wrongly exposed, and the real Jane Doe is getting threats despite no one else being identified as her. So we can conclude that that's really her

Keith Woods on X - "The picture emerging of this girl is a quirk chungus, derpy hicklib who, based on her morphology, has a rather masculine disposition. It's probably because of said disposition that she misread female social dynamics and expected there would be no "slut shaming" from the sisterhood if she did something sexually adventurous like an orgy. The fact that she thought the men involved were gay/bi was added lib status, which as a pride "ally" she must have assumed would especially protect her from social shame – when she first noticed people were speaking negatively of the act, she text a friend words to the effect that this was part of the sexual liberation movement and "is going to become more common" The timeline then seems clear: she was disinvited from a Halloween party because of the reputation she earned as a slut, which she then realised was a view not confined to bigoted men. When she read a comment of someone saying she was raped, she must have immediately clocked this as a possible out to absolve her of accountability and regain her social status. In her own account, she had never conceived of it in this way until she read it from someone else. At that point, members of the sisterhood encouraged her suggestions that she was not actually responsible for anything. "Slut shaming" still exists among sexuall liberated women, but it is at odds with their professed beliefs about sexuality. Women are expected to pick up on this nuance and push for as much female power as possible while also enforcing shaming to discourage any individual lowering female sexual market value through extreme promiscuity. But, the sisterhood has also built an out, and now any woman can just withdraw consent reotrospectively, undo the wrong, and receive an even greater status as a victim."

ಎर on X - "She was disinvited the next time because she is not a looker. Hence low status for the men….so one off….she wrongly assumed that this one act would give her the opening/status that genetics has deprived her….it is what it is…"

Gamerealist on X - "Women’s PR has just been on a downward spiral this whole year. It’s been on a downward spiral since the internet, but I feel like someone just pressed the accelerate button. Women just CAN’T take responsibility and should be relieved of any authority. The Cornell 7 girl is even suing her sorority for not stopping her."
I LIKE COLD BEVERAGES on X - "Women need chaperones to protect them from their own choices"
Gamerealist on X - "There’s a reason father’s helped choose their daughter’s mates in the past."

Thread by @memeticsisyphus on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Cornell case is funny because they had verbal consent with witnesses and written consent after the fact through text messages and that’s probably more proof of consent than any sexual encounter anyone has ever had yet half the country still thinks they’re rapists. If the woman in question saying nothing was illegal and enjoyed herself the following day isn’t enough to convince you literally nothing could."
A common cope is that trauma affects memory. Weird how that means her later memory of being raped is accurate but her earlier memory that it was consensual is not. If trauma really affects memory to that extent, that means alleged victim testimony should all be thrown out because it's unreliable. But of course the version of memory that pushes the left wing agenda must be reliable and if you don't believe that, you are a rape apologist and indeed a rapist yourself. Logic is a red flag for feminists

True Discipline on X - "Another funny thing I have noticed is the way women are saying the men can't be the victims because they did this or that. If these same people were discussing a female rape accuser, any illogical behavior would be swept away with saying it was trauma response."
Kazuo Furintoyama on X - "It's almost as if they don't really believe in anything except whatever is convenient for them in the moment."

Michael Tracey on X - "Hey @TMZ this idea of "repressed memory" Harvey keeps invoking is total bunk. She described a consensual "gang bang" in the immediate aftermath, but then later unearthed memories that it was actually "gang rape"? That makes zero sense. "Trauma" = not a "get out of jail free" card"
Michael Tracey on X - "Whenever anyone tries to claim that alleged "victims" can be so "traumatized" that they "repress" their memories of the alleged victimizing incident, only to "recover" those lost memories weeks/months/years later, send them this quote from Harvard professor Richard McNally (2005)"
"The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for "recovered memory therapy" -- the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era."

Mr Gus on X - "For ideological women, shitty disrespectful sex is "rape". That's where we get one in three woman are rape "survivors ". More "rape" than in the Rape of Nanjing, ISIS controlled Syria, or African tribal wars."
Dark Pascual on X - "From what I've read about the case (admittedly, not as much), I just find everybody involved stupid and disgusting. But criminal? Not really. What baffles me is that advising "do not drink so much that your judgement is impaired and practice some restraint" is now misogyny."
Hux on X - "Because feminists want consent to be an ethereal tingling feeling that women possess only in their minds and which can, at any moment, be redefined, reinterpreted, removed, under any circumstance, and that this special feeling should, without fail, be taken seriously by the law."
When left wingers proclaim that consent can be revoked at any time, they mean after the fact, too (the cope is that trauma affects memory and actions and you can't find a "perfect victim", which amounts to the same thing). This case is also proof that jokes about getting explicit consent, even in writing, before you do the deed kinda fall flat, since even that can't save you from a false accusation

Jane Doe texted with Cornell frat bro to find 'jealous' rat gossiping about them - "The Cornell student accusing seven frat brothers of gang raping her had worked with one of them to try to find the “rat” talking about them having sex at a party — claiming they needed to “grow up” and be more open-minded about what went on, according to a fresh batch of text messages. Just four days after the Chi Phi fraternity party where the student now claims she was drugged and raped, Jane Doe texted student Matthew Ingalls in a panic claiming “everybody knows” about them having sex , leavin her “incredibly stressed out,” messages obtained by TMZ show. Ingalls sympathized after the accuser complained about some “random bitch” telling her friends. “Dude I have no f—king idea, this sh-t is incredibly frustrating and I know how fast nonsense spreads at this school,” responded Ingalls, who later claimed he was the one assaulted while too drunk to consent. “It’s fan behavior from everyone talking about it. Boring people who have nothing to do with their time,” texted Ingalls, who Doe later said instigated the alleged 2024 gang rape. Doe said the rumors were “f—king RUINING my life” and that she wanted to sniff out “the rats.” “My reputation is destroyed and i’m utterly ashamed. i’m f—king pissed because this many people shouldn’t know and i feel like i know who some of the rats in the room were,” she texted him. She added that the rumors were not only spreading like wildfire but were growing “crazier every f—king day.” “Stupid bitches like to yap, and the fact they’re doing it shows that they’re jealous of you for any number of reasons,” Ingalls shot back. “The only shameful thing is how this spread and how much people won’t shut up about it — which just reflects poorly on them tbh,” he added. Doe agreed that the gossips are “jealous” and threatened to beat up anyone who gives them “sh-t” about what happened while also opening up how she’s “open-minded” about sexuality. “…but also like everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and sh-t is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,” she said, while adding that she is “also really open minded tho.”... More than a week later on November 7, Ingalls tells Doe that his ex-girlfriend told him he’s now been labeled a sexual abuser on campus — and asked if Doe had made those allegations against him. Doe said she’s stayed mum but added “people are changing the narrative because like in any sexual scenario w one woman and many men the woman was probably victim.” “I know there are rumors I was gang banged,” she said. That same day, Doe requested a rape kit at an emergency room and reported the alleged rape to campus police the following day, according to her lawsui10"
What an ignorant. What woman would want to be raped?! They need to retract this clearly false report! The messages are clearly fake!

New York Post on X - "NYS lawmaker pitches bill to give sex assault victims tuition reimbursement in wake of Cornell 7 case"
Riley Gaines on X - "Financially incentivizing rape allegations....what could possibly go wrong?"

Erich Hartmann on X - "The Cornell incident happened:
• under Biden
• in a Democrat-controlled state
• in a deep, deep blue city
• at a leftist university
• by progressives
Every. Single. Person. Involved. Is. A. Democrat."

There is a war on male-only spaces : r/TrueUnpopularOpinion - "In light of the Cornell case, many people have been calling for a ban on fraternities. They argue fraternities are a cesspit of sexual assault, alcoholism, hazing, violence etc. Mainstream publications have started to chime in as well, with New York Magazine and Vogue Magazine both putting out pieces in support of a ban. However, I think there is a more sinister reason for the ban, which has nothing to do with protecting women or curbing alcoholism. Fraternities are one of the last, if not the last, true male-only space we have. A space where men can gather, share jokes, mentor eachother and just be themselves without constant female henpecking and browbeating. It seems society is intent on destroying the roughness, edginess and aggressiveness of men (toxic masculinity) and turning them into HR-approved, deferential, wholesome kiddies. We have seen this many times over. The military, the police, the fire brigade, the church groups, the Boy Scouts, the YMCA, the Elks and other private clubs, the gaming groups etc etc Society just won't let men exist in a space that isn't monitored by a nagging girlboss ready to call out any 'microaggressions' or whatever. Men and women are different. We have different physiology, psychology and ways of socializing. We don't need therapy or spa days, we prefer competition, insults or sometimes just sitting in silence in the company of other men. Leave our spaces alone."

The "Nakba" according to its Author

To know what "the Nakba" was, it is good to read what the person who coined the term said:

"Seven Arab states declare war on Zionism in Palestine, stop impotent before it, and then turn on their heels. The representatives of the Arabs deliver fiery speeches in the highest international forums, warning what the Arab states and peoples will do if this or that decision be enacted. Declarations fall like bombs from the mouths of officials at the meetings of the Arab League, but when action becomes necessary, the fire is still and quiet, the steel and iron are rusted and twisted, quick to bend and disintegrate. The bombs are hollow and empty. They cause no damage and kill no one.

Seven states seek the abolition of partition and the subduing of Zionism, but they leave the battle having lost a not inconsiderable portion of the soil of Palestine, even of the part "given" to the Arabs in the partition. They are forced to accept a truce in which there is neither advantage nor gain for them...

In short, the Zionist home in Palestine is today closer to realization than ever before. On the other side, the very being of the Arabs has never before known such fragmentation and collapse as in this battle.

In addition to the material collapse is the collapse of values which is shown [in various ways. It is shown] by the doubt of the Arabs in their governments and by their accusations of their leaders and rulers, even by the doubt of many of them in themselves and in their potentiality as a nation. [It is also shown] by the despair in their breasts, by their refusal to meet the danger, and by their shrinking before the magnitude of the blow. Indeed, this moral and spiritual relapse is more important than the material loss, no matter how great the latter might be; for if the resolu- tion of a people crumbles and its confidence in itself is lost, it loses the best that it possesses and is impotent to rise after a fall or to shake from itself the dust of humiliation and defeat.

These are some aspects of the disaster which has overtaken the Arabs in this battle of the Palestine war. These and others, which are on the tips of all tongues, which throb in all hearts, and which every one of us sees and hears [cited] in these critical days, are sufficient to indicate the seriousness of the trial and the intensity of the tragedy...

When the battle broke out, our internal propaganda began to tell us about imaginary victories and to benumb the Arab peoples with the easiness of our military struggle and our ability to overcome and conquer -- until the disaster struck, accompanied by a bitter reaction...

When we view this disaster and appraise its extent and its results, it is also right and fair for us to know that it is only one battle in a long war. If we have lost this battle, that does not mean that we have lost the whole war or that we have been finally routed with no possibility of a later revival...

By advocating that we take far-reaching action and that we view the war in its entirety instead of confining ourselves to the present battle, I do not mean that we should merely await the course of events and depend on favorable circumstances...

I hope that, in the above discussion, I have hit on the truth in describing our present disaster in Palestine and that I have made clear its seriousness and gravity, and the intensity with which it now afflicts us and will afflict us in the future. I also hope that I have pictured the disaster as it really is and that I have outlined the course which we must take in relation to it and the viewpoint from which we must look at it, for this is the necessary first step in analyzing a problem and studying the ways of solving it...

However, whether we are able to strike this crushing blow successfully and establish a united, democratic state in Palestine or whether we prove impotent and have partition imposed on us by the Zionists and the rest of the world, the struggle must go on...

The present struggle, which we have described and whose principles and conditions we have drawn up, is necessary for the battle we are now waging. However, the war waged to uproot Zionism and to conquer it completely will not be finished in a single battle. On the contrary it will require a long and protracted war. To put it briefly -- and in all frankness and sincerity -- this war will not lead to the victory of the Arabs as long as they remain in their present condition. The most that they will be able to accomplish under the circumstances is to guard against the immediate Zionist evil and to protect as much of the Arab being as possible. The road to final and complete victory over this evil is different. The road to this victory lies in a fundamental change in the situation of the Arabs, and in a complete transformation of their modes of thought, action, and life."

--- The Meaning of the Disaster, Constantine K. Zurayk aka Constantin Zureiq (1948), 1956 translation by R. Bayly Winder

There's also quite a lot of racism in the pamphlet, but basically the "Nakba" (disaster) was the failure of the Arabs to eradicate the Jews.

Links - 25th October 2026 (1 - French Migrant Riots)

Ren ♡ on X - "id rather see the world set ablaze in protest than watch it die under the boot of fascists and pedophiles"
Left Wingers want to destroy the world. Recall that everyone who disagrees with them is a fascist and/or pedophile
Of course left wingers are blaming Russia, fascists, AI, "police brutality" etc and climate change for the riots. The "solution" is always more of the left wing agenda

Eric Matheny on X - "You’ve gotta love how grandmothers walking through the Rotunda is an insurrection, and Third World migrants setting fire to cultural relics is a student protest."

Melissa Chen on X - "Aline started working at age 12.  Over the next three decades she built La Barrique, a restaurant in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, from scratch. She cooked, served, and became part of the neighborhood.  On October 17, rioters broke in, destroyed the place, punched her in the face, and set the building on fire.  By morning her restaurant was ashes. 34 years of work, vaporized in a single night.  Obviously, Aline is an immigrant, one who went to work every day, contributed to the economy and served her community.   One of liberalism's fatal flaws is the fear of drawing distinctions. Distinctions between men and women. Distinctions between cultures. Distinctions between countries.   Because apparently noticing any differences means that you are violating your commitment to equality; it means that you are discriminating, and in the hierarchy of evils in the liberal world, there is no worse sin.  This is literally baked in to the French national motto:   Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité  Égalité means equality, specifically social or political equality.   Which means that drawing any distinctions is the same as discrimination.   But this is completely untethered from reality because these distinctions are REAL. And if you craft and enact policies that ignore these distinctions, the chickens (ok since this is France, the Gallic rooster) will come home to roost."

Handre on X - "When immigrants refuse to integrate into the host society's legal, linguistic, and commercial fabric, they create jurisdictional ambiguity. Ambiguity is where transaction costs breed. But that is only part 1 of the problem cascade.  Consider the banlieues ringing Paris, where Sharia-adjacent informal courts settle disputes that French civil law theoretically governs. Two competing legal systems occupying the same geography produce institutional decay. Contracts become unenforceable across community lines. Capital avoids the uncertainty. Citizens pay that cost in stagnant property values and higher insurance premiums. But wait there is more.  Language is infrastructure. A Turkish enclave in Berlin where 40% of residents speak no functional German represents a communication barrier that price signals cannot cross efficiently. Entrepreneurs cannot hire freely across that barrier without absorbing translation overhead. Labor markets fragment. Wages inside the enclave compress because the worker pool cannot compete in the broader market.  Then, the welfare state makes it dramatically worse. State subsidies remove the market pressure that historically forced assimilation. Ellis Island immigrants learned English because the market paid them to. Today the German government pays families in Neukölln to remain monolingual, then wonders why parallel societies calcify across two and three generations.  Non-assimilation creates a property rights problem across cultural barriers. Voluntary immigration into a free society demands adoption of its legal foundations. Anything less transfers real costs onto existing citizens without their consent, and that is simply redistribution without even a passport.  Fast forward 20 years and you end up with this:"
Fountainhead Forum on X - "A nation needs a shared civic identity. This is why multicultural Switzerland works. A welfare state destroys any shared civic identity. It creates a class of taxpayers and taxeaters."
This is why left wingers love welfare so much. It creates the division they thrive on

Hen Mazzig on X - "Why are the New York Times, CNN, and BBC working overtime to make sure not a single Palestinian flag makes it into their photo coverage of the French protests?"

LoLNothingMatters on X - "You have to find whatever small joys you can in the darkest timeline. I have decided to do so by savoring the fact that Palestinian flag has become the global, universal symbol for barbarism and nihilism, proudly waved by every faction that just wants to see the world burn."

Yves Engler on X - "700 marched in Montreal today in solidarity with the French student protest movement"
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "No French flags, no Canadian flags, no Quebec flags. Lots of communist and terrorist flags though."

Itai Cellier on X (Translated) - "There's a very good question here that I want to turn into a separate tweet -  "Why is there atomic chaos on some streets and nothing at all on nearby streets (where there are good stores for looting)?"
 The answer is pretty simple: This pattern of areas with widespread looting and areas right next to them with absolutely nothing is a symptom of the fact that vandalism and looting work is professional, planned, and coordinated in advance.   And I'll explain:   What characterizes all the riots in France so far, like Saint-Germain's victory, "Music Day," etc., is the "spontaneous destructiveness" created by the arrival of masses of people from tough suburbs into the big cities, mainly in the evening hours - under the cover of darkness and under the cover of a large crowd flowing through the streets - it's very easy to carry out acts of vandalism and robbery that the police have a hard time spotting until it's already "too late" or at least, it allows enough critical operating time before police forces can arrive at the scene. Because of this, the shape of looting areas in these cases has always overlapped with the crowd's paths of advance.   Yesterday, something entirely different happened.   There were approved demonstration routes by the police authorities, there were a few riots carried out along those routes too but those were mainly regular spontaneous riots and not organized.
 **Most of the damage** was carried out in areas **relatively far** from the demonstrations and it was carried out in an organized way using a very smart method - first of all, skilled teams piled up barricades around a certain sector. Barricades that didn't encounter any police resistance because the police simply weren't there because they were busy securing the route of the authorized demonstrations.   After the barricades were set up, they were usually also set on fire. But it wasn't just the barricades that were set on fire but also several nearby hotspots like cars or business storefronts, wooden doors, etc. The goal was for residents to call the fire department which would send fire trucks that would have to draw water from street hydrants and direct firefighting efforts to several hotspots [usually at an intersection] which de facto creates - an effective blockage of traffic routes - beyond the burning barricades themselves.   From that moment, the looters were essentially free to smash the storefronts that interested them without interference. The thing is, they also "stuck to the schedule" according to reports, the X hour was 16:30. - When you're looting inside a sector "secured" by burning barricades and fire trucks starting to flow in *far* from the demonstration routes and when all the looting happens simultaneously - even a police force of hundreds of thousands of officers - won't manage to arrive quickly (via mounted patrols or transit - because the routes are closed) or flow in time on foot to all the looting sites to stop it.   This is what essentially proves it was a professional organization with a guiding hand and disciplined teams. Who does the suspicion fall on? On the skilled teams of Antifa and other radical left organizations, including "professional brains" who come from abroad. On people from Mélenchon's "indomitable France." And on agents of Putin's Russia. [Remember the blue Star of David graffiti painted on Jews' homes right after 9/7? The synagogue painted green? The red hand signs on the Holocaust memorial? The sabotage of the train guidance systems before the Olympics? - All of these were proven to be Russian sabotage operations].  This modus operandi is also what explains the "amazement" among bobo people [the French bourgeois left] who tweet things like "What riots are they talking about I live here in Paris and my street is full of stores and quiet." Yeah, darling. You're not in an area pre-targeted by the "protest" organizers. And that's why "you didn't notice anything.""

Ro Khanna on X - "From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in.  In France, students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes.  In Spain, for affordable rent and housing.   In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption.  @JDVance  says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south.  He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment.  The is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.   This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future.  In America, let us listen to our young.  We need an economic and political transformation.  America's Next New Deal."
Melissa Chen on X - "Let me translate what Ro Khanna’s pitch is:  Remember the 2020 BLM riots’ death toll, firebombed buildings, looted stores and subsequent crime waves and business flight in multiple cities?  Yeah, we miss that!   Let’s double down with higher taxes on productive capital, more redistribution, and reward youth protests so we can fund the cycle and invite more of it!   We want the USA 🇺🇸 to be be MORE like France 🇫🇷 !!!!!   Vote Dems!!!!!"

Melissa Chen on X - "Then why isn’t Central and Eastern Europe - Poland, Czechia, Hungary - burning this weekend?   (Albania is the clear exception, and for different reasons)  Housing costs, school conditions, and youth economic frustration are real problems across much of Europe, including in places with far lower immigration.   Yet the large-scale, violent unrest this week was seen in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium.   Why?   The demographic differences are stark:  Foreign-born share of the population: Poland ~2.6%, Hungary ~7%, Czechia ~10%, France ~14%, Spain ~19%.  More importantly, the composition differs.   Inflows into Poland, Czechia, and Hungary have been overwhelmingly Ukrainian, other European, or specific groups like Vietnamese.   Western Europe has large, multi-generational populations from the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East/North Africa.  Muslim population estimates remain under 1% across Poland, Czechia, and Hungary versus roughly >10% in France."

TMK on X - "Remember when Macron threatened to send the French navy to stop the United States from invading Greenland?   Hilarious.  He won’t even stop the invasion of his own country by African Muslims."

Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: Macron blames the protests in France on high fuel prices caused by the US-Iran War"
Lara Logan on X - "I have always said the instant operation to hang the conflict with Iran like a noose around the Pres Trump’s neck was information warfare at its finest. You knew it because it immediately came from both the left & right - dead giveaway. Now the globalist puppet Macron is using this too in the hope his people won’t wake up to the reality of the globalist cult & their leftist-Islamist proxies & how they have been infiltrating & taking over France with the intent of dismantling it completely. Now the riots have laid this bare for all to see they are panicking - so of course, when all else fails…blame Trump. After all that’s what a lot of Republicans do lately - at least those still clinging to the system who hope against hope wethethe people will get back in their box & do as they’re told after they get rid of Trump."

British Intel on X - "🚨 UPDATE: Protesters in Paris have attempted to reach the Élysée Palace, the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron, as violent unrest continues across France.  French authorities have banned demonstrations around the presidential residence and deployed police to prevent crowds from reaching sensitive government buildings."

David Knight Legg on X - "“There is, in fact, no such thing as a French culture; there is a culture in France, and it is diverse, it is multicultural" - Emmanuel Macron, Lyon, 2017. Lyon, after 9 years of broken borders, is on fire. Violent crime is up 63pc."

Melissa Chen on X - "It's funny how the commies who constantly tout the evils of private property and the moral urgency of redistribution always sprint straight for the monogrammed handbags the moment the alarm goes off.   Personally, I find it hard to summon much sympathy when luxury stores get smashed and looted. Why? Because it's the same industry that constantly embraces third-worldist leftism, sustainability theater, inclusion quotas, and progressive signaling.   Recall that Vogue endorses Democratic candidates and majority of high fashion designers snub Melania Trump. Campaigns push all kinds of norm-busting avant garde ideas including open borders and BLM-adjacent slogans, while relying on know-nothing woke celebrities to amplify their message.  These brands have spent decades cultivating an ideology to appeal to a consumer class (like Hasan Piker lol) that treats property as negotiable, heritage as contemptible, order as oppression, and hierarchy as something to be dismantled. So when the mob turns on the glass and marble of their own boutiques, this is simply known as being hoisted by their own petard.  The Limoges town hall, on the other hand, is different. Its destruction is the loss of something irreplaceable, and I mourn it"

DocumentingLibs on X - "Paris, 2026. Last night.   They wanted a better life in Europe. So the first stop during the mass riots was Christian Dior and other high-fashion shops. Don’t act surprised that the city stops looking or feeling like Paris.  Watch the whole thing and tell me how this show of diversity makes Europe better."
Gunther Eagleman™ on X - "This is what Paris looks like the morning after the "cost of living" protests, and it is UNRECOGNIZABLE.  Dior's door is smashed in. So are Goyard, Bulgari, and Louis Vuitton.  They even smashed up a corner wine shop and a bakery.  There is a HAMMER AND SICKLE painted on Louis Vuitton's boarded-up window.  The Monument to the Republic is covered in "ACAB" and anti-Macron graffiti.  One wall says "Bernard, you're screwed, the youth is in the street," a shot at the billionaire who owns Dior and Louis Vuitton.  These people said they were marching against "high prices." Then they stole everything they could carry.  This is what communism looks like. Smash, grab, and blame the rich. Paris deserves better than this."

Dan Wootton on X - "Fucking hell, they just did it! The BBC actually described the Islamo-leftist riots burning France to the ground as “MOSTLY PEACEFUL”! But Danny Tommo puncturing a people smuggling boat is terrorism to them. Defund them NOW!"

Max Klinger on X - "This clip should be put in a time capsule. It’s an artefact of our suicidal age. Observe: Massive fire burning down a building in France, with the French flag dangling above the flames. In the background, a Palestine flag - the flag of a foreign land ruled by medieval jihadists - flies next a sign saying ‘Fuck Israel’.   The defining anthem of these so-called ‘protests by schoolboys’ (lol) is a song praising the jihadists who murdered a bunch of ‘infidels’ in the Bataclan and Jewish kids at a school in France last decade.   Videos show masked fighting aged men jumping on benches and claiming that Allah orders them to murder police, to massive cheers.   This is not an entirely Islamic sectarian protest, ofc. But brutal, hostile, anti-Jewish, anti-Western Muslim fanaticism is now a central feature of Western life. And one of the central driving forces behind Western decline."

Sébastien JALLAMION on X - "🇫🇷 Pour que tout le monde comprenne la situation malgré les propos complètement hors sol du président de la République :  Selon les chiffres officiels communiqués par la préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône, rien qu’à Marseille, 30.000 personnes ont participé à des pillages.  Même si tous les policiers et gendarmes de France avaient été dépêchés sur place, il aurait été impossible de l’éviter.  Ajoutez ce que nous avons vu à Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Limoges, etc etc… et vous comprendrez que l’Etat est dans l’incapacité d’assurer l’ordre public.  Dans ces circonstances, il existe des dispositions qui ont déjà fait leurs preuves, comme ce fut le cas en 2005 : l’Etat d’urgence, qui permet notamment aux préfets d’interdire les rassemblements, d’instaurer des couvre-feux, de procéder à des assignations à résidence administratives pour un temps limité.  Emmanuel Macron, qui n’a pas hésité à décréter un État d’urgence « sanitaire » pour un virus, estime que ce n’est pas nécessaire, et laisse les préfets gérer avec le peu de moyens dont ils disposent une situation de violences urbaines jamais vue sous la Veme République.   Nous basculons progressivement dans un scénario de violences ethniques avec une intensité croissante, et l’Etat laisse la population livrée à elle-même.  À force de refuser de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent de peur que la situation ne s’envenime, elle finit par s’envenimer encore plus vite.,,"
JfDeBlg on X - "Les solutions existent. L’armée pour défendre les bâtiments de la république, la police et la gendarmerie pour le maintien de l’ordre avec carte blanche pour tirer dans le tas… quelques morts et cela dissuadera les pillards. Enfin, mise en prison des fauteurs de troubles"

Liza Rosen on X - "An Israeli reporter stood in the ruins of a French street and could not process what she was seeing. It looked like a battlefield. Shops smashed, barricades burned, glass and debris covering the pavement.   The people who live and work there had done nothing to the rioters. Now they cannot open their stores, cannot earn a living, and are afraid to walk outside with their children.  This was not a protest about school conditions or the cost of living. It was the free Palestine Marxist-Islamic intifada imported into French cities.   Palestinian flags flew while masked groups systematically looted bakeries, pharmacies, luxury stores and ordinary shops, torched cars, and attacked public buildings. Limoges town hall was burned. Marseille city hall was stormed.   A Paris synagogue was vandalized. Around 1,800 people were arrested. Roughly 1,500 businesses were damaged.  Losses run into the hundreds of millions.  The locals did not start a war. The same banlieue populations that already consume the bulk of welfare, housing and education budgets simply used the march as cover to burn the country that feeds them while demanding more.   Macron and the political class that opened the borders and harvested the votes left ordinary French people to live among the wreckage.  Free Palestine is the slogan. Muslim colonialism is the project.   The same ideology that celebrates October 7 in Gothenburg and waves jihad flags through London now turns French streets into a battleground and leaves the people who built the shops terrified for their children’s future.  💔💔💔"

Eli Steele on X - "I have argued that suicidal empathy is a flawed concept, and what is happening in France proves it.  In the post below, Le Pogam gives a good articulation of @GadSaad 's suicidal empathy. He argues that the West feels too much for the wrong people. In short, our compassion misfires, and we die of kindness. It is a comforting story in a sense, but it is false. The behavior he describes is real, and I have said so before. But what drives it is not empathy but fear.  My father has long argued that white guilt is the diagnosis. People often say, "I have no white guilt," but it has nothing to do with personal feelings of guilt. You cannot feel guilt for what you have not done. White guilt is collective guilt, and the left has charged the entire West and all whites with the crimes of slavery, segregation, and colonialism. We live in a white guilt world, and that world rules by fear. The charge is racism, and the punishment is public ruin and ostracism. What moves us is fear, and far too many of us have lied to ourselves that this fear is empathy.  Suicidal empathy has no origin story. In his book and countless podcasts, Saad offers up the explanations of misfiring emotions and the flawed hairworm analogy. But why would his biological explanation of empathy start misfiring during this time? Saad blames ideas spread from the universities, but that only moves the question. Why did the West let those ideas win after the 1960s? He never says. Le Pogam seems to understand this hole in Saad's reasoning, and that is why he points to Christianity as a possible explanation. But Christianity is 2,000 years old.  The origin of white guilt has a date. In the 1960s, white America confessed to centuries of racial oppression. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were that confession. As my father puts it, "It was a confession that this nation made." Whites who had been on the top were now fallen. They lost their moral authority. Many whites sought to regain their innocence by turning against America and the West. They sought innocence by allying with the "oppressed."  Europe followed a similar path with colonialism. In February 2017, Emmanuel Macron went to Algeria and called France's colonization "a crime against humanity." Three months later, he was elected president. France did not punish him for it. It rewarded him.  Le Pogam describes empathy as the spotlight that lights up the face in front of you. But that spotlight passed over the injured police officers (nearly a thousand of them) and the looted shopkeepers. Fear is the truer explanation here. Standing with the police and the shopkeepers invites the racist charge. Standing with and excusing the rioters gives you a free pass.  Le Pogam then describes how this works when he refers to the ideology that "sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do." But this is not empathy. You cannot empathize with a category. Empathy only works with a person. What Le Pogam is describing is the brute act of devaluing people into ideological pawns and then brutally assigning them to race boxes. That is what white guilt does.  Whether he intended to or not, Le Pogam then explains white guilt perfectly when he says men went silent at the dinner table because they were told their protective instinct was toxic. Why would grown men believe that? Because borders, police and the word no had all been branded racist. Those men were afraid of being called racists. They calculated the cost. That fear is white guilt.  So then the question becomes why have so many self-proclaimed free thinkers on the right swallowed suicidal empathy whole? Because it flatters us. If our only flaw is that we're too kind, that's a compliment. The problem is always someone else, and we get to feel innocent. That need to feel innocent is white guilt too. It is far easier to believe we are dying of kindness than to admit we have been afraid."

卄𝐎ù𝔰ε 𝐨𝔣 ℙｏє𝐌 _ on X (Translated) - "A Syrian who lives in the UK travels to Paris to join the riots. During his livestream, he calls for doing the same in the United Kingdom, London.  This is what the West has massively imported."

Josh Wolfe on X - "Uh... You know who isn't rioting across Europe, burning down historic buildings, looting shops. desecrating monuments, turning cities into ruins and globalizing the intifada? ZIONISTS."
Another reason left wingers hate them so much

Thread by @jonatanpallesen on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A look at how the European media covers the violent French riots.  The largest Danish new media, DR, has only a small feature on the main page.  It describes the riots as "French high school students continue to protest". (I translate the texts to English.)  The picture is with the police as the central element. It is not even the largest news story about France on DR. With a larger feature is this story about right-wing antisemitism, and some things this person wrote when he was 17.
Another large Danish news site, TV2: "Schoolchildren all over France demonstrate".  Do you notice something else about these demonstrators? The article does not. The article features an analysis, where we can get a perspective of things, that's not just the strictly verifiable aspects of the story. Still no mention of ethnicity.
The Guardian leads with a sympathetic intro from a sympathetic school pupil, Sophia. The article tells us that among the reasons for the situation is the opaque online system for university applications."

The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About Schools - The Atlantic - "The French protest too much. Over the past two decades, paroxysms of rage, violence, rioting, arson, and looting have regularly seized the nation, imposing enormous costs on civil society. During the 2005 banlieue riots, the deaths of two boys evading police sparked three weeks of severe property destruction and violence. In the years since, pandemonium has broken out over veil bans, the commemoration of NATO’s anniversary, the legalization of same-sex marriage, even the arrival of ride-sharing apps... the violence fanning out across France has little to do with pedagogical concerns. For some time now, there has been an existential crisis at the heart of French life, rooted in a pervasive sense that the future will never equal the past, that the state cannot achieve what its citizens expect. The national pie is often seen as zero-sum, which explains why so many constituencies, from retirees to high schoolers, refuse to give an inch. Their anger accumulates, then it boils over. And the government is either unwilling or unable to contain it. Five of the videos that have gone viral reveal the nihilistic resentment beneath the pretext of school reform. In the one I can’t get out of my mind, a 15-year-old dressed in a black hoodie, black sweatpants, and mask calmly approaches a woman in Marseille and sprays her face with a makeshift flamethrower, leaving her with first-degree burns. In a scene from Nantes, an inferno fills the lobby of the Nelson Mandela High School, which cost 75 million euros to build in 2014. In the third video, a keffiyeh-clad blond-haired teen in Paris smiles as he explains to a reporter, who has asked about a policewoman being chased and tripped by teenagers, that “the ends justify the means.” Elsewhere, a masked teen stands atop a car addressing a crowd of euphoric classmates, who hold their smartphones out as if they’re at a concert. He counts the police he sees: “There are only 10 of them,” he screams. “In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” The crowd erupts in cheers. The fifth clip depicts a large and rapturous group of teens in the Loire Valley, backpacks on and smartphones out, gathered in a circle, rapping the lyrics to “M*R*H.” The song opens with a reference to the Bataclan terror attack in 2015 in which 90 people were killed: “I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid of hell; the pact is intact—who but Allah can stop me? / Bataclan—playing dead, lying flat—I’m gonna pick ’em off one by one.”... In recent years, France’s protest culture has been indulged and glorified to the point of insanity. This has become a particular problem during Emmanuel Macron’s tenure, which began in 2017. Protests have not only enfeebled his administration but also eroded the political viability of centrism in France. In 2018, the gilets jaunes, or “yellow vests,” led a national revolt ostensibly against fuel taxes that nearly incapacitated Macron’s presidency until the coronavirus pandemic subdued it. In 2023, nationwide demonstrations coupled with indiscriminate violence and mayhem followed the police shooting of a teenage motorist near Paris. That same year saw further street clashes and rioting over disputes surrounding pension reforms and the construction of water reservoirs. In 2024, farmers blocked roadways and damaged government property. Last year, hundreds of thousands of people participated in protests led by the anti-austerity Bloquons Tout movement (“Let’s block everything”)... some on the left have sought to exploit the nihilism convulsing France by spurring it on. On September 28, Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis and a member of LFI, danced with students while singing “La Marseillaise” in front of a flaming blockade at the lycée Paul Eluard. The following day, he made his message clear. “La violence, à un moment donné, peut être légitime”: At a certain point, violence can be legitimate."
Clearly, setting a head teacher on fire is how you protest "underfunded" schools
Left wingers in the US want to emulate all of this, because they love nihilism and destruction. The fact that left wingers in France are still not happy despite getting pretty much all of what many left wingers in the US claim they want is lost on them, of course. Left wingers are never happy

Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ on X - "Les conditions inhumaines du lycée Nelson-Mandela, à Nantes. Il fallait le voir pour le croire.  Verrière, bois clair, nef de 26 000 m², énergie positive. Internat de 166 lits, chambres avec sanitaires, salles de travail, patio.  Deux gymnases et un mur d’escalade de 24 voies.  Sections internationales, BTS, prépa.   Facture d’origine : 52 à 64 millions d’euros, il y a douze ans.   Le genre d’établissement qui ferait pâlir 95 pourcents des lycées français.   Et c’est le lycée qu’on brûle, hall et verrière, au nom du manque de moyens.   Le Site est fermé jusqu’à la Toussaint, cours à distance, remise en état chiffrée en millions.   Les conditions étaient si inhumaines qu’il a fallu y mettre le feu pour les rendre visibles.   Mais de qui se moque-t-on ?"

Mass protests in France spiral into worst riots in years - "Rioting erupted in cities across France on Saturday (Oct 17) as demonstrations against rising living costs and declining public services spiralled out of control in some of the worst violence the country has witnessed for decades... In Limoges, the city hall was set ablaze; in Marseille, black-clad protesters broke into city hall and defaced the building with anarchic graffiti, and in Lyon, protesters torched the city's tourist office... Belgium, Portugal and Italy also faced smaller-scale protests on Saturday as living costs rise in Europe, while protesters in Albania again rallied against perceived government corruption, a lack of jobs and poor education standards."
Left wing cope - they have riots like this every 6 months

𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 on X - "There were no French flags present at the protests in France."

Matt Van Swol on X - "France gives asylum seeking migrants:
Free healthcare
Free education
Free legal aid
Free housing
Free food
Free cash
…and this is how they treat France."
Left wingers unironically think they need to be given even more, and that expecting gratitude is "toxic"
The new left wing cope is that these are protests about the cost of living