Douce France ( Hugh Fitzgerald on the lives of the French elite)

Dhimmi Watch ^ | June 23, 2004 | Hugh Fitzgerald

[caveat emptor]

Imagine that you are a cosseted member of the French elite. One child is doing the khâgne, aiming for rue d’Ulm. Another is now a politechnicien. You are very comfortable, working for the state. You and your spouse are journalists, or writers, or one of that vast tribe of people conducting “recherches” and life is comfortable, good, the way it should be. Yes, you do notice more and more Muslims about you as you walk, no longer in the banlieues, but in the center of Paris, or Toulouse, or Lyon. And you remember how uneasy you felt, four years ago, when you happened to be walking on the Cannebière in Marseille. You decided, then and there, that you would not return.

[caveat emptor]

You can read the rest here .

Pretty chilling article.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Next election, France should vote for the giant douche over the turd sandwich.

[Cobra64]

I caught the almost correct spelling too in the title. I was going to make a snide remark but you beat me to it.

(I took about 8 years of French when I was a child 45 years ago, and it came back when I spent 4 months on an assignment in Switzerland. Foreign language skills fade when not using them).

[jordan8]

Every last thing he says of France, including the Bonfire Of The Vanities separation between the managerial ruling class and the people, can be said of the United States. Look at the degeneration of what were once some of the greatest cities in the world and how we all pretend that nothing is happening. Of how the ruling elite, some wealthy but most upper middle class, smugly congratulate themselves for disastrous social beliefs and programs whose terrible costs are borne almost exclusively by the working and lower middle classes.

[RobinOfKingston]

The last thing our little French buddies need to worry about is a McDonald's on every street corner.

[Clemenza]

The age of the "werkin man" was the 1930s through the 1950s. I'm happy we'll never have to revisit THAT era again.

[Clemenza]

Old, but still one of my favorite descriptions of the type of French folks I have known.

[happyathome]

Fortunately we have an ingrained sense of personal liberty, and (most of us) an ingrained distrust of government. These attributes are going to save us, just as their absence from the continental euro makeup will doom them.

[rmlew]

1. If the demographic figure are correct (1/3 of births are Muslim), then France is doomed. It does not have the will to expel the Beurs.
All of those liberals, business people, and neocons calling for integration are merely hastening the metastization.

2. The differential between Euro-Americans and Hispanics is not as great as that with Muslims. Moreover, there is no cohesion. Nevertheless, we may see the same thing here. Look at the flight from California and New York. Certainly a Mexican reconquista seems possible.

[dennisw]

Hugh is the best!

[Clemenza]

The "flight" from California and New York has more to do with insane real estate than anything else. Ask most folks leaving New York for the Carolinas, Virginia and Florida, and they will tell you it is due to the high cost of living. Plus, if it were purely a racial thing, why is it that many Puerto Ricans are moving from New York to Central Florida, and many blacks are moving to various states in the south?

Plus, keep in mind that second and especially third generation Hispanics eventually intermarry:

http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/22.pdf

[Katya]

"You discover that 1 out of every 3 babies born in France today is a Muslim baby. And that means, in 20 years, one of every three 20-year-olds in France will be a Muslim twenty-year-old. And that means, twenty years after that, at present rates of reproduction, France will have a majority Muslim population."

This is the problem, and at this point the only remedy is education. Educated middle class citizens have less children, because they actually weigh issues like affordability since they are not counting on the govt to finance the children. There's not point in arguing anything else. The stupid french had open immigration policies without control or integration intentions. They can't kick them out and their numbers are so large now that their only option is to economically westernize them.

[caveat emptor]

...and at this point the only remedy is education....

by banning Al Jazeera, Reuters, La Monde, the mullahs, etc ???

...their only option is to economically westernize them.

Who's "them"? France?

[Katya]

Yes....France.

[Clemenza]

Yes, but you need to reproduce at replacement level to support a growing economy and an aging population. The fact that so many Euro-peons have chosen not even to have one kid is just as much a reason for the current disaster as the "immigration" boogeyman.

[caveat emptor]

Every last thing he says of France, including the Bonfire Of The Vanities separation between the managerial ruling class and the people, can be said of the United States.

not here yet

Who knows what evil lurks in the heart's of men and the future of America. The Shadow knows.