When the hell were you last in France? Everyone uses anglicisms.
Now remind me, which part of, and now I quote myself for the fourth fucking time:
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massive investment in culturally-aware policing, education and job creation.
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do you have a problem with because well fuck me with a rake, that comment of mine seems to suggest strategies for dealing with exactly the problems you're pontificating about.
This 'passive racism' you seem to think is the root of all this is hard to dismantle when you're confronted with open racism from the people involved and don't deny it exists, I have and continue to every day see it and hear it and hear the same from people living in France. Faced with open hostility most people tend to be a little stand-offish. Strange.
Noone is denying there are serious problems, I mean christ this has happened every 10 years or so for a while but the situation is hardly black and white. Particularly with unemployment. In many of these areas there are very few if any businesses, French employment law makes it difficult to hire people and in the same way society works everywhere else, those with contacts and friends inside companies are going to have a leg up in getting in. That isn't racism, that's how people work. As for graduates (although you avoid the term so I'd like a source on that) the problem is always going to be pronounced for the reasons above. Is there some racism involved? Certainly, but there is racism on both sides of the fence and both need to be addressed equally severely, anything less merely breeds more resentment. Take a look at the stuff spewed out by sites like
Ligali. If I said half of that stuff, I'd be arrested.
But that isn't going to solve the problem, what is, and what I said before is to try and break up the ghettos, properly educate the kids and create jobs for the young men and women with nothing better to do than turn to crime, a problem that crosses racial boundaries both here and in France, you cannot over-emphasise the economic center to most of this. Only then you'll have a long term solution. What it comes down to is that I've never seen an integrated society with large socioeconomic disparity and I've never seen an unintegrated one with socioeconomic disparity.
How you deal with people who openly and actively hate the country they've moved to though is another question, if they feel like that and are so keen to let it be known it's time to send them back where they came from. I'm sorry, but if people don't want to be here, I don't see why we should keep them, be they violent rioters, terrorists or hate-preaching islamic scholars.
Now, please, finally, answer each of these questions:
Are people who riot, kill people, burn cars and shops and shoot at police criminals or not?
If they are, should they be dealt with the same way as other criminals? If not, why not?