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It's racist and should be torn down! How offensive it is to the Muslims in France! A Crusader Order? One that has a long history of humanitarian actions? How dare they! Good Frenchmen should be offended!

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Captain X said:
Any follow-up on this?
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Look, you have to understand the cultural context. Protests in Paris are like earthquakes in California -- they're quite common, rather less destructive than people imagine, and people kinda just shrug and live with them. And the protesters talk themselves up, break into factions like a Monty Python, rarely if ever actually do more than a fraction of what they threaten, and life goes on. This was merely more of the same.

Personal example: there was a big protest right out front of Versailles when I was there last year, several hundred utility company trucks doing a rolling-blockade of the street. . . didn't even put a dent in the visitor traffic. Just a couple of cars of gendarmes reinforcing the outer security, and they popped off a couple of canisters of tear gas when some of the protesters got a little too close/aggressive but didn't even close the gates.

The main effect was that tourists had to be dropped off a short distance away and had to walk a couple of blocks to get to Versailles. . . oh the horror! To be fair, there were a few tourists that really did look like walking any distance at all might cause them to drop dead. Why they came to Versailles at all is beyond me, the palace is an extensive walking tour!
 
ShadowArxxy said:
Look, you have to understand the cultural context. Protests in Paris are like earthquakes in California -- they're quite common, rather less destructive than people imagine, and people kinda just shrug and live with them. And the protesters talk themselves up, break into factions like a Monty Python, rarely if ever actually do more than a fraction of what they threaten, and life goes on. This was merely more of the same.

Personal example: there was a big protest right out front of Versailles when I was there last year, several hundred utility company trucks doing a rolling-blockade of the street. . . didn't even put a dent in the visitor traffic. Just a couple of cars of gendarmes reinforcing the outer security, and they popped off a couple of canisters of tear gas when some of the protesters got a little too close/aggressive but didn't even close the gates.

The main effect was that tourists had to be dropped off a short distance away and had to walk a couple of blocks to get to Versailles. . . oh the horror! To be fair, there were a few tourists that really did look like walking any distance at all might cause them to drop dead. Why they came to Versailles at all is beyond me, the palace is an extensive walking tour!
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Yet the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is just 2 months away.
 
49ersfootball said:
Yet the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is just 2 months away.
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And if Paris was actually under blockade since the farmers' protest declared this 'siege' at the end of January, it would be continuously in the news. The fact that it hasn't shows that -- as usual -- things were not taken to the extreme and the protests were quietly and peacefully resolved in a few days, perhaps a week at most.
 
ShadowArxxy said:
And if Paris was actually under blockade since the farmers' protest declared this 'siege' at the end of January, it would be continuously in the news. The fact that it hasn't shows that -- as usual -- things were not taken to the extreme and the protests were quietly and peacefully resolved in a few days, perhaps a week at most.
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Fingers crossed the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris goes off without chaos.
 
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