Lola-Fleur and the long tradition of radical babes |
On Monday night, with the glass still being swept up from the latest événements, French viewers were offered a spectacle almost as compelling as the riots. A young, blonde, radical left-wing woman appeared on France’s La Grande Confrontation TV show and gave a performance mixing, in equal parts, conviction, narcissism, privilege, contempt and, at best, a highly selective grasp of history. And all delivered from a face of transfixing beauty.
The privileged young blonde white woman was defending the poor brown boys
The privileged young blonde white woman was defending the poor brown boys
Her name is Lola-Fleur Whittaker. She is 23, and a Sciences Po student who stood for Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise in the Paris municipals this spring. Facing shopkeepers in the TV studio, whose premises had been looted, she excused the rioters and condescendingly explained to the traders: ‘Vos boutiques, c’est bien mignon.’ Literally: oh your shops, how sweet. Within hours an infuriated internet had found her........