It is wrong to attribute the French protests involving teenagers solely to the ‘New France’ – that is, non-European migrants who hold French identity cards but, in many cases, reject the French way of life. This unrest is not simply a clash between immigrants and France, or between Islam and European civilisation, as Donald Trump has tried to portray it. It is worse than that. Around the barricades and blockades, immigrants and white French teenagers are rising up together – against reality, work and excellence. Two forms of decadence and entitlement are singing in unison.
The French school riots are the rage of the entitled
Teenagers rich and poor, white and non-white, are united in their rejection of effort and excellence.
