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The "Youths" Are At It Again

This time, they're attacking the gendarmes with shotguns. This isn't a riot. It's an insurrection. What is Sarkozy going to do?

I find this particular euphemism by the press quite irritating. Can't we be a little more specific and descriptive about the "youths"? By using that phrase, we're tarring all French youth, many of whom, if not most, I suspect, are not blasting the cops in the faces with shot. Are they Catholics? Huguenots? Mormons? Amish?

In the US, when they won't tell you the race of a criminal suspect, it's generally a good bet that he's of African descent, and if they make you guess the party of a miscreant politician, it's a good indicator that it's a Democrat. In French riots, one strongly suspects that when the perps are described only as "youths," that they are (a) not necessarily that young and (b) at least notional followers of the Religion of Peace™. But we don't want to prejudice anyone against the religion that cannot be named, no, or tell the readers what's really going on here. We'll just slander all young French people.

Posted by Rand Simberg at November 27, 2007 07:08 AM
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They're just teenagers. And when they take over, they will give all Frenchmen the opportunity to become teenagers. Inshallah.

Posted by lmg at November 27, 2007 08:55 PM

Those dang Amish. At it again.

Posted by Fred Kiesche at November 28, 2007 10:49 AM

I hear most of them are negroes.

Posted by at November 28, 2007 11:11 AM


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