These days, progressive intellectuals are divided into two categories: the Philippulus, who loudly announce the apocalypse, and the Pangloss, trumpeting that all is well in the best of all possible worlds.
Jean Viard undoubtedly belongs to the second category.
In his latest work with the title in the form of an excusist haiku
A riot is the language of those who are not heard,
the sociologist undertakes to reflect on the riots of July 2023. He analyzes them as a revolt movement of young people marginalized by a France which refuses to accept its mixed race and its multiculturalism.
Jean Viard is not just anyone.
He is not an obscure doctoral student from Paris 8 or an intersectional activist in a keffiyeh.
No, he's the official sociologist of public radio.
In “Social Questions” the toutologist spouts off truisms every Sunday on Franceinfo on the farmers' revolt, the floods, the New Year's Eve menu and the slopes...
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