法国正经历数十年来最严重的骚乱——暴力显然不仅针对执政党，而是针对法国本身——而左翼自由派建制派仍在试图将责任归咎于少数坏分子。
France is seeing its worst riots in decades — violence clearly aimed not simply at the ruling party, but at France itself — and the left-liberal establishment is still trying to blame a few bad apples.
这不仅适用于埃马纽埃尔·马克龙总统，也适用于那些声称骚乱主要与学生对预算削减的不满有关的全球媒体——至少有一篇BBC文章实际上使用了“绝大多数和平抗议”的说法。这是胡说：街头暴徒几周以来并非只是（甚至大多是）孩子，破坏行为从最初几天就开始了；正是上个月，“抗议者”将一名教师点燃。
That’s true not just of President Emmanuel Macron, but of global media that claim it’s mainly about student grievances over budget cuts — at least one BBC article actually used the phrase “mostly peaceful protests.”This is nonsense: The street mobs haven’t been just (or even mostly) kids for weeks now, and the vandalism began in the first days; it was last month that “protesters” set a teacher on fire.
外国国旗（摩洛哥、阿尔及利亚、“巴勒斯坦”）从一开始就出现；人群大多是黑人和阿拉伯人——换句话说，绝大多数来自穆斯林移民社区。
Foreign flags (Morocco, Algeria, “Palestine”) came out at the start; the crowds are mostly blacks and Arabs — overwhelmingly from Muslim immigrant communities, in other words.
政治声明也很明显：焚烧历史悠久的市政厅；砸毁玛丽安娜雕像，玛丽安娜是法国共和国的象征。犹太教堂被洗劫，以及其他针对犹太人的行为。引领这些人的不是自由，而是对西方文明本身的仇恨。
And the political statements are obvious: Burning down historic town halls; smashing a statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic. Synagogues ransacked and other targeting of Jews. Liberty isn’t leading these people, but a hatred for Western civilization itself.
那个文明的领导人如果仍然坚持否认，要么会成为前领导人，要么就“领导”一个前文明。
Leaders of that civilization who still insist on denial will either find themselves as former leaders, or “leading” a former civilization.