The Gilets Jaunes are a bl**dy nuisance and the impact on Paris economy at the moment is frightening, hotels are 50% full, restaurants are empty. I mean great, you can book a table anywhere by calling on a Friday afternoon, but seriously business is not good.The main problem is that France used to have those big fights about reforms with the traditional unions (CGT, CFDT, etc.) so you had an elected leader with some knowledge facing the government. But those unions have failed to rally against the major topics like the railways reform, so they lost credibility. Now the government is facing a horizontal organisation created on Facebook by the first idiot who can snowball a protest originally about oil prices into a "torching down the city Saturday party".The so-called leader of the GJs cannot complete a sentence without making two grammatical mistakes so the discussion level is abysmally low. Their speech is let's hit on rich people and on "les sachants" ("the knowing"), which is an apology for mediocrity: do not try to succeed in your career, we'll take the rewards, do not study too much you'll be on our list as well...Regarding Alain Finfielkraut we should always be ashamed to see any acts of anti Judaism, but himself was no innocent in the past and had a few racist goes on different occasions, so he’s an easy target. I had him as a teacher and a) you could not understand him without a dictionary which tends to alienate people b) all his colleagues signed a petition to remove him as his racist / colonialist views were taking a toll on them. Shame on both sides.
Marc Blanchard ● 2787d