In Rennes in France 🇫🇷 a young mother confronts communist academic Bettina Zourli. Rioters tried to smash her door down & threatened her with rape.
Zourli, when it comers to the revolution, rape to her is "collateral damage."
This was translated via Grok by
@thoughts_nic.
"The clip shows a young mother confronting Bettina Zourli (sociology lecturer at Université Rennes 2, feminist activist and content creator). The mother describes being threatened with rape the previous night by rioters/looters while with her infant. Zourli responds by framing such violence in revolutionary terms.
"Mother (reacting to talk that damage to private property “isn’t serious”):
“It’s not serious? I was with my infant. I was with my infant, I was in an apartment, they were trying to get in because they said they were going to rape me because I was a dirty bourgeois, because I was stopping them from looting the little shop downstairs.”
"Bettina Zourli: “It’s collateral damage.”
"Peaceful activism doesn’t work.” (She references Nelson Mandela calling for armed struggle at a certain point against apartheid.)
""Mother: “Okay, thank you for clarifying — you’re not a pacifist.” “Yesterday I was barricaded in with my infant, with guys who were threatening to rape me. You’re justifying this violence.”
"Zourli: “Not at all. But it’s normal! The revolution isn’t calm! It doesn’t happen calmly. But I’m for the revolution, obviously yes, of course!”
“Looting BNP Paribas is normal. It’s the source of our problems.”
"Rioters had told the mother she deserved to be raped as a “sale bourgeoise” (filthy/dirty bourgeois) for interfering with the looting of the small shop below her apartment. She and her baby barricaded themselves inside."