The French riots are ongoing news from after my training data, so I can’t independently verify the BBC coverage. Here’s the grammar pass:
The flagship media outlet of the United Kingdom, the BBC, has been getting ruthlessly flamed online after declaring the riots actively taking place in France are “mostly peaceful” in their recent coverage of the chaos ongoing abroad.
Burning. Looting. Rioting. Violence.
It’s an all-too-familiar array of chaotic scenes actively playing out in France, as Americans who even harbor a slight memory of just roughly six years ago remember what was playing out in major cities. And just like the summer of love that plagued the United States throughout 2020, and in some cases beyond when looking back at how things played out in Portland, mainstream media is here to downplay the chaos and elevate the purported social issues allegedly being addressed with riots and looting.
The official narrative, according to the BBC’s recent reporting on the France riots, is that hundreds of thousands of people consisting of “mainly peaceful protesters demonstrated on Saturday against rising living costs and dwindling access to decent public services, including a good state education.”
Ah yes, the old “mostly peaceful” schtick is at it again. The BBC’s Paris correspondent, James Waterhouse, took things a step further, literally doing the proverbial “mostly peaceful” meme with an October 19 report where he claimed the riots “were mostly peaceful, but as we saw in the capital, in the wings were those who wanted to take advantage of the disorder.”
For those who remember the mainstream media coverage stateside of the BLM riots, the “mostly peaceful” meme was lifted from an actual news chyron from CNN while the outlet was handling coverage of Kenosha, Wisconsin, back in August of 2020. A CNN reporter was literally standing in front of a burning building while reporting on the chaos while a news chyron from the broadcast read, “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.”
At the time, CNN was rightfully mocked for the ignorant and tasteless description of the rioting in Kenosha, with its infamous attempt at distorting reality being immortalized as a meme highlighting the ridiculous lengths mainstream media will go to in their crusade to normalize left-wing chaos.
Apparently, the BBC decided it could just copy CNN’s homework from six years ago and act like it would go unnoticed.
While the absurd description used by the BBC has been called out by what people with normally functioning eyes can see for themselves, it seemingly hasn’t deterred the mainstream media abroad from trying to continuously frame the rioting as mere “student protests.”
If you’re wondering what these “student protests” look like in France, they apparently consist of what appear to be adults, some donning keffiyehs but many in black bloc, attacking police officers in the streets.
And checking in on some more of these alleged “students” protesting for purportedly a better education system, you’ll find fully grown adults attacking an employee of a hobby and trading card shop.
Certainly, looting a store for pop culture collectibles is going to help make the education system better and more equitable in France. At least the mainstream media would spout that kind of broken logic, or at the very least excuse the chaos as being a direct effect of the capitalistic society that’s keeping the poor and uneducated down.
If you’re residing in the United States and are seeing what’s occurring in France and thinking to yourself, “Wait, I’ve seen this movie before,” you’re not alone. It’s practically a carbon copy of the BLM riots from six years earlier. Whether the French government is willing to do what it takes to quell the madness is a whole different story.
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