I’ve read several interesting articles about the MSM’s failure to adequately convey the nature and the reasons for the riots in France. The most popular theory among conservative bloggers is that the MSM is censoring the religion (Islam) and the nationality (North African or Middle Eastern) of the rioting populations so as not to offend the gods of cultural sensitivity. That is certainly part of it. But there is another reason. Theodore Dalrymple laid it out in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal today:

The French left, ever vigilant on behalf of the downtrodden privileged, won’t consider a reform of the labor market that might just help to integrate the racaille into French society. The French right, by contrast, wants to deal with the problem first by ignoring it — for, as the South African whites used to say about the rioting Africans, they are only fouling their own nest — and then, if the worst comes to the worst and the violence spills over to where the decent people live, by repressing it with force. Anyone who has seen members of the Compagnies Republicaines de Securit