Just weeks after hugely disruptive protests and strikes over pension reforms in France finally died down, businesses in the country are grappling with the fallout from a week of rioting.

Just weeks after hugely disruptive protests and strikes over pension reforms in France finally died down, businesses in the country are grappling with the fallout from a week of rioting.

  • Ronno@kbin.socialEnglish
    1417·
    1 year ago

    You are aware that the shops and infrastructure they are destroying have no influence on social security nor policy, right? You are also aware that most shops are family owned businesses that already struggle to make ends meet, and face similar issues as the people rioting? There are ways to protest and revolt against a government, that don’t include stealing or breaking public infrastructure. I don’t get why people think stealing is warranted when you tag protest on it.

    • QHC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Then maybe cops should stop killing innocent people and the government should not protect their paid murderers.

      Why is the only possible solution aimed at the protestors and not the actual institutions that caused the protests to be necessary?

    • artisanrox@kbin.socialEnglish
      104·
      1 year ago

      This WHOLE ENTIRE talking point, in effect, takes away from THE POINT OF THE PROTEST.

      The points of the protest are the eroding of everyone’s quality of life because of an uppermost class AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM

      • galloog1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I am not the OP here but this is an example of how the narrative shifts when the demonstrators shift to property damage. This is why the right grows during periods of unrest. They use it to justify more oppressive policies and they get the support of those small businesses and community leaders. It is an immensely consistent trend throughout history. Even the American Revolution, so often touted as a natural course of events, did not gain popular support until the Boston Massacre (Only killing six people and nobody knows who shot first)

      • Ronno@kbin.socialEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I thought this was about police violence? But sure. Oh and p.s, from a rational point of view, the pension age cannot stand as is, and must be increased to ensure pension for all

        • artisanrox@kbin.socialEnglish
          33·
          1 year ago

          Oh and p.s, from a rational point of view, the pension age cannot stand as is, and must be increased to ensure pension for all

          This terrible opinion is why you keep hitting that “BUT THE LOOTING11!1” lever lol