#13 That's a real question, I should let a real person like JFM answers that. I'm not a real person, I just play one on the internet.
IMHO, french attitude has shifted; speech has been freed, with stuff that literally would have ended someone's social life only a few years ago being put on print in MSM mags, like "Le Point" making articles about the muslim flavor of french crime (with 70% of those processed through the judicial system being from immigrant background), or the out of control and violently racist gangs of black Youths.
This is part of a larger shift in french society; as the symptoms worsen, the Enlightened Elites find it hader and harder to hide Reality™ being newspeak. After all, even if he's passed the occasion, Sarko has been elected as a "rupture" (paradigm shift) president. French people know something is terribly wrong, with the way the country is ran, and with what's happening with immigration.
BUT, apart from that relative liberty and change of discourse (because the overbearing PCness of earlier times is getting more and more ridicule and unsustainable), the antiracist orgs still are State-funded and still sue peoples into conforming, despite the fact their mask has fallen and they appear for what they are, like that 53 years old woman being currently sued after she refused to rent to a veiled woman in her guest house (probably a set up from the start, a sting operation if you wish),... and there still is the whole infrastructure of social engineering in the 'hoods, with complicit (either becasue they're Youths themselves, or because they're trotskysts) social workers, the billions and billions of euros spend on them yearly,...
So, if you want to get my uneducated guess (ask JFM for a real analysis), Reality™ has not improved, quite the contrary, because the heavy political, demographical, cultural,... trends still are here, but speech has become less restricted. Mags can speak about african gangs now, but back in the 90's, there were the "zulus", black african gangs with some whose speciality was gangraping white girls for recreational or initiation purpose (not a fantasy, many were jugged, until the gangs were broken); in 1998, after the world cup victory, there was much much violence during the celebrations on the night of the victory, with Youths attacking european-looking french... Nothing has changed, just that now, the mags have admitted that in the 90's, they kept mum so not to "feed the National front", that in 1998 they kept mum because that victory was the victory of the France Black-blanc-beur (the "rainbow France"),...
How can the Forces of Progress pretend there is no anti-white racism from the Youths, when their kids get beaten up and assaulted when they do the ritual demonstrations against the Man, and the joyful Youths explain they love to kick whitey's ass, because he's weak and effete, and he doesn't fight back? How can they say there are no more immigrants today than in the 1930's, when Paris and the areas are so heavily africanized, with even the leftist/PC national statistics institute Insee admitting that 1/4 of french births come from parents with non-european backgrounds?
And all this, funnily enough, when the most visible expression of the french "unease" about rampant immigration, mismanagement of the country, and unwanted transformation of the Nation into something else, the FN, being basically dead, with its new leftist/multiculturalist (for lack of a better term) stance that has lost it half its voters... who went to vote Sarko and his "tough talk". Heh. |
French police clashed overnight with youths who went on a rampage in a town in eastern France, prompting Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to travel to the troublespot.