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French taxi drivers are the latest to protest the entry of Uber into their protected market. Their protests feature vandalism and blocking roads. From the AP story:
French taxi drivers pulled out the throttle in an all-out confrontation with the ultra-cheap Uber car service Thursday, smashing livery cars, setting tires ablaze and blocking traffic during a nationwide strike that caught tourists and celebrities alike in the mayhem.
[...] Taxi drivers justified their rage, saying Uber's lowest-cost service UberPop was ruining their livihoods.[sic]
[...] Anger seethed across France, with riot police chasing strikers from Paris' ring road, where protesters torched tires and swarmed onto exit ramps during rush hour on the busy artery that leads to Charles de Gaulle airport. In Toulouse in the southwest, angry taxi drivers dumped flour onto UberPop cars, tires were burned in Nantes in the west, and in Lyon, in the southeast, roads were blocked.
Compare this to Uber protests in London.
Vive le monopole!
Original Submission
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @11:36PM
>French taxi drivers
If you look at whose doing the vandalizing, you'll notice something hilarious.
Most of them are immigrants.
How's that multiculturalism working out for you France?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @11:50PM
Heh, multiculturalism is a propaganda term for the removal of culture. Those immigrants might keep a shade of their culture when they come here, but their sons will be like ours, airheads.
This is painfully obvious, culture is interference for a status quo based on the power of money, so it gets substituted with innocuous pap taught at school. Culture is not about how many data you remember for the exam. Culture is the way your grandpa raised his hat to greet a lady.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 29 2015, @05:04PM
At last check, France was mostly refusing multiculturalism. Outside of ghettos which accommodated bursts of immigrants (like after the war with Algeria), France's pot has been melting a lot more uniformly than those giant clumps you find all over the US.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @07:38PM
Provided you are the right kind of immigrant. The National Front will tell you all about the dangers of those untrustworthy brown Muslim people.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 29 2015, @08:11PM
Gotta find someone to get angry at when the economy and the treaties make it hard to find a job...
Regardless of skin color and discrimination though, you will rarely find immigrants to France who can't speak French at all after more than 5 years there (those tend to be old). I'm meeting hundreds here in the US who can fully operate in their native language and have little incentive to ever integrate into the US mainstream.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @09:42PM
Do you mean to tell me that there are no Muslim "No Go" zones?? That's not what I heard on the cable shows!