The French Floyd

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking violent protest across the country. Is this France’s George Floyd moment—or something darker still? Stateside, the courts have been on a roll, preliminarily blocking the Biden administration from overtly colluding with social media companies and banning explicit race-based affirmative action in university admissions. The editors discuss the rolling civilizational crisis and, of course, remind you to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.1	You know, this kind of relatively low grade
0:07.2	even with rioters strapped with submachine guns
0:11.1	or what have you.
0:12.8	This kind of low grade unrest can go on for a very long time
0:16.8	or custom to thinking of the sh** hits the fan moment
0:20.5	as kind of animating proper culture in the US or whatever.
0:25.4	But part of the problem here is that even the really bad
0:29.9	stuff seems to take forever to play itself out.
0:32.7	So I think if there's going to be movement of any decisive kind
0:39.4	on this front, it's going to arise at the level of Europe
0:44.3	as a whole rather than of any one nation state in particular.
0:49.5	They all seem to be kind of locked into this weird passivity.
0:52.6	They're, you know, the usual powder kegs, something's
0:56.2	going on in Serbia right now that could once again spark
1:01.0	into life or into violence.
1:05.0	Everyone's waiting for a big cue.
1:26.7	Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table.
1:33.4	You're weekly publishers and editors podcast here
1:37.6	at The American Might.
1:38.6	I'm your host, Spencer Klaven.
1:40.3	And I'm joined this week by editor James Pulas
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