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Head of Sorbonne attacks 'ignorant' student protesters
The Guardian ^
| April 3, 2006
| Kim Willsher
Posted on 04/02/2006 6:11:31 PM PDT by trashcanbred
The president of the world-renowned Sorbonne University has branded French students protesting about the country's new employment law "ignorant and stupid".
Reacting to protests over the law, which makes it easier for employers to fire, and therefore presumably more willing to hire, young workers, Jean-Robert Pitte said the youngsters had no dreams but believed everything was due to them as a right without having to work for it.
"I'm very angry about the demagogy, the ignorance and the stupidity of the young and of the French," said Dr Pitte, 56, a geography professor who has taught at Oxford and Cambridge and holds the Légion d'honneur.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: france; ignorantpinkos; riots; sorbonne; stupidfrogs
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Wow... the head of the Sorbonne bad mouths the socialists. Must have been the time spent in an "Anglo-Saxon" country.
To: trashcanbred
"I'm very angry about the demagogy, the ignorance and the stupidity of the young and of the French..." We, on the other hand, are very amused!
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:12:58 PM PDT
by
JAWs
(Ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed. Der er intet men.)
To: trashcanbred
Give it up man, they're French (and VERY nuanced).
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:14:01 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
To: trashcanbred
Is this Sorbonne a socialist haven? I mean, why is this newsworthy? of course, anybody the 'protesters' are willing to listen to telling them truth like it is, is welcome. But will the ignorant and the stupid care about what 'the Sorbonne' pulpit', such as it is?
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:15:28 PM PDT
by
voletti
(Awareness and Equanimity.)
To: trashcanbred
The man speaks a lot of sense. Sounds like a French intellectual of old and that's refreshing.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:15:57 PM PDT
by
gotribe
(Just tired of going easy on islam)
To: trashcanbred
What Chirac should say:
Attention students. When you have worked for ten or twenty years, you will be qualified to comment on labor laws. Until then, shut up, go back to school, and concentrate on being useful, productive citizens. That is all.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:17:37 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: trashcanbred
Wonder if he will do anything concrete about their ignorance like requiring them to take economics from a professor who actually believes in classical economics.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:18:04 PM PDT
by
Fraxinus
(Warning: Opinion may be less useful than it appears)
To: trashcanbred
I think you are right. Good for him.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:18:17 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: trashcanbred
a geography professorWho would have guessed?
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:19:49 PM PDT
by
AmishDude
(AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
To: trashcanbred
Oh la-la. Oh la-la-la-la-la-la.
This is gasoline on the fire.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:20:33 PM PDT
by
LK44-40
To: trashcanbred
The Sorbonne is a world class university. The French equivalent to the UK's Oxford and America's Harvard. I wonder if the good provost is going to be sacked for that turn of political incorrectness. The French have become a nation of snobs.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:21:27 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: trashcanbred
".....Jean-Robert Pitte said the youngsters had no dreams but believed everything was due to them as a right without having to work for it."
Ain't socialism grand?
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:21:42 PM PDT
by
stm
(You can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: voletti; aculeus; Senator Bedfellow; Billthedrill
I mean, why is this newsworthy?I wouldnt have expected this breath of fresh air from the Sorbonne.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:22:42 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: trashcanbred
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:23:37 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: voletti
It is news when the head of a US university states that socialism is for babies. For the head of a prestigious French university to say it was rather surprising.
Plus like many universities in France the Sorbonne has been closed down by the students though they do not control it like Nanterre.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:24:06 PM PDT
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
To: SlowBoat407
OMG I misread your post at first. I thought it said "What Chirac
would say". For a second I thought you had lost your mind!!!
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:24:34 PM PDT
by
stm
(You can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: goldstategop
I wondered the same thing, is this guy gonna get the axe like Lawrence Summers of Harvard.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:25:22 PM PDT
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
To: trashcanbred
Wonder what Dr Pitte's FReeper name is.....
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:25:57 PM PDT
by
daybreakcoming
(If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
To: metmom
Hey Metmom... yes they are still at it. More stikes on Tuesday.
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posted on
04/02/2006 6:26:24 PM PDT
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
To: voletti
Well, the Sorbonne is the most famous and prestigious university in France and one of the most prestigious in the world, so I'd say that's newsworthy.
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