Apparently Blocking Streets Is a Good Thing, Actually

A notable bit from Glynnis MacNicol in the New York Times, an American in Paris fawning over the more “peaceful” student demonstrations there:

This zany thought tends to reappear in moments of social-justice agitation. MacNicol, and many who justify this worldview, seem to believe that those blocking the roads hold the scales of cosmic justice, that they are so arrestingly correct in their beliefs that they must suspend the normal procedures of civil society, not only to get people’s attention, but because everyone, everywhere, needs to suffer if they aren’t already.