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Pierre Vermeren
Pierre Vermeren, a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and a history professor, is a specialist in the Maghreb and the Arab-Berber worlds.
Is this the price of our past revolutionary glory, perpetuated by the memory of the "French 75"? Is it the excess of "wokism," which has ended up normalizing this mix of feminism and racialism blended into antifascism? Is it our national anti-American passion reincarnated as anti-Trumpism, inevitably white supremacist and Nazi? Is it a cheap anti-Catholicism, reminding us that every institution is by nature coercive and must be fought? Is it simply our inexhaustible reservoir of guilt that compels us to validate all the actions of the supposedly oppressed, even when they shoot at us?
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Vincent Tournier
Lecturer in political science at the IEP of Grenoble.
The show "The Best Regional Cuisine" drew the magazine's ire for its stale praise of tradition. However, Télérama is not stingy with praise when it comes to distant traditions.
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Jacques-Robert
Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
An article in Le Monde reverses the roles by portraying so-called progressive academics as victims while imposing their ideological vision on campuses. Through several examples (Grenoble, Lyon II, student blockades, etc.), Jacques Robert denounces institutional complacency in the face of ideologies and the growing disregard for academic freedom.
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Linguist, President of LAIC
People who so readily accept the metaphor of verbal violence are people who are quick to equate the murderer with the nuisance. In a world without violence, we have to put people in prison! We might as well put the people who bother us...
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The list of shame
The "list of perpetrators of genocide" published by historian Julien Théry primarily stigmatizes Jewish figures simply because they defend Israel's right to exist. An opinion piece by Xavier-Laurent Salvador and Patrick Henriet calls for combating antisemitism in all its forms.
Collective
29th November 2025
Menstrual leave for all
The introduction of "menstrual leave for all" in some French universities, denying the physiological reality of menstruation, blurs the lines between equality and ideology. An article by Laura Stevens, followed by a commentary by Jacques Robert.
Laura Stevens
19th November 2025
Did you say academic freedom? Regarding a hemanoptic report commissioned by France Universités
The recent publication of a report on academic freedom has obviously generated immense interest from the Observatory of University Ethics, especially
Jacques-Robert
6th November 2025
"Heist of the Century" at the Louvre: Increase in Thefts Affecting All of Europe
Although the threat is clear, the growing fragility of our cultural institutions in the face of organized criminal networks does not provoke any real reaction: the political and judicial authorities remain inert, while museums, insufficiently equipped and protected, remain at the mercy of a booming heritage crime.
Julien Volper
October 25th 2025
What can Polybius teach us about the current political crisis?
Polybius saw the history of regimes as a moral cycle: democracy degenerates into ochlocracy when virtue disappears. Today, the loss of elite training and the decline of universities recall this mechanism: without education, freedom collapses and the crowd rules in place of reason.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
October 9th 2025
Happiness in cancellation
In a brief, humorous, and caustic autobiographical account, Jacques Robert denounces the intimidation that conference organizers are subjected to at the hands of zealous sycophants. The new cancer culture?
Jacques-Robert
September 9, 2025
Back to a militant thesis
Professor Albert Doja critically analyzes a thesis devoted to the status of "burrnesh" ("sworn virgin", but also "strong woman" in Albanian). An article which illustrates the challenges of scientific rigor, historicization of concepts and vigilance in the face of simplifications or "exoticization" which risk hindering the understanding and support of struggles for equality.
Albert Doja
September 3, 2025
Was Researching and Teaching Better Before?
Pierre Rochette takes a harsh look back at his 44-year career, denouncing the rise of a cumbersome and absurd bureaucracy that seriously hinders scientific research, academic freedom and the functioning of higher education in France.
Pierre Rochette
July 12, 2025
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When Télérama mocks traditions… but not all of them
The show "The Best Regional Cuisine" drew the magazine's ire for its stale praise of tradition. However, Télérama is not stingy with praise when it comes to distant traditions.
Vincent Tournier
October 9th 2025
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Victim inversion: who is threatening whom?
An article in Le Monde reverses the roles by portraying so-called progressive academics as victims while imposing their ideological vision on campuses. Through several examples (Grenoble, Lyon II, student blockades, etc.), Jacques Robert denounces institutional complacency in the face of ideologies and the growing disregard for academic freedom.
Jacques-Robert
October 1th 2025
The editorials
Cancel culture is an ideology of death
People who so readily accept the metaphor of verbal violence are people who are quick to equate the murderer with the nuisance. In a world without violence, we have to put people in prison! We might as well put the people who bother us...
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
September 18, 2025
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Make Africa Great Again!
The colonialists would artificially reduce the size of Africa, while we are faced with well-known map projection effects.
When activists highlight their ignorance of basic geographical concepts, Jacques Robert is there to push their arguments to the point of absurdity...
Jacques-Robert
22th August 2025
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Figures of the past, quarrels of the present
The show "Murmures dans la cité" (Whispers in the City) is being criticized for its funding and its choice of religious figures, deemed incompatible with secularism by a group of heritage professionals. Patrick Henriet explains that the chosen saints played a major role in the Bourbonnais region: their presence is part of a historical, not an ideological, approach.
Patrick Henriet
July 25, 2025
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The Collège de France and academic freedom
Jacques Robert denounces the drift of certain academic institutions such as the Collège de France, which agrees to submit to leonine clauses by signing a contract with a multinational company: academic freedom is thus undermined, as is the inalienable right to criticism.
Jacques-Robert
July 10, 2025
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Public universities: the invisible pillar of higher education sacrificed
French public universities, which enroll more than 70% of higher education students, fulfill an essential mission with far fewer resources than the private sector, while relying heavily on state funding. Yet, they suffer from a disconnect between research and teaching, low professionalization, and a lack of institutional recognition, undermining their central role in educating young people and upholding the promise of republican equality.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
30th June 2025
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Alain Policar, the wide-eyed awake man
In his book "Wokism Doesn't Exist," Alain Policar defends a woke ideology that, under the guise of fighting discrimination, seeks the deconstruction of Western civilization. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
16th June 2025
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Did you say academic freedom? Regarding a hemanoptic report commissioned by France Universités
The recent publication of a report on academic freedom has obviously generated immense interest from the Observatory of University Ethics, especially
Jacques-Robert
6th November 2025
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Back to a militant thesis
Professor Albert Doja critically analyzes a thesis devoted to the status of "burrnesh" ("sworn virgin", but also "strong woman" in Albanian). An article which illustrates the challenges of scientific rigor, historicization of concepts and vigilance in the face of simplifications or "exoticization" which risk hindering the understanding and support of struggles for equality.
Albert Doja
September 3, 2025
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Figures of the past, quarrels of the present
The show "Murmures dans la cité" (Whispers in the City) is being criticized for its funding and its choice of religious figures, deemed incompatible with secularism by a group of heritage professionals. Patrick Henriet explains that the chosen saints played a major role in the Bourbonnais region: their presence is part of a historical, not an ideological, approach.
Patrick Henriet
July 25, 2025
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Was Researching and Teaching Better Before?
Pierre Rochette takes a harsh look back at his 44-year career, denouncing the rise of a cumbersome and absurd bureaucracy that seriously hinders scientific research, academic freedom and the functioning of higher education in France.
Pierre Rochette
July 12, 2025
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Public universities: the invisible pillar of higher education sacrificed
French public universities, which enroll more than 70% of higher education students, fulfill an essential mission with far fewer resources than the private sector, while relying heavily on state funding. Yet, they suffer from a disconnect between research and teaching, low professionalization, and a lack of institutional recognition, undermining their central role in educating young people and upholding the promise of republican equality.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
30th June 2025
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Universities under control
The collective work Critique de la raison universitaire, edited by Arnaud Bernadet, explores how certain identity-based, managerial, and activist ideologies undermine the foundations of science, reason, and academic freedom within Western universities, particularly in Canada and France. Through contributions from various academics, the book denounces the erosion of intellectual pluralism caused by censorship, EDI policies, the indigenization of knowledge, and the transformation of law into an instrument of activism, calling for a rigorous defense of academic autonomy as a requirement of truth.
Marc Chevrier
April 24, 2025
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When intimidation replaces debate: support for Fabrice Balanche
Fabrice Balanche, a researcher at Lyon 2 University, was prevented from giving a lecture by masked activists claiming to be pro-Palestinian. The University Ethics Observatory responded to this climate of intimidation in a statement demanding sanctions and strong commitment from university and government authorities.
Observers Collective
April 10, 2025
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The meaning of our fight
A profound reversal of values and benchmarks is currently affecting the intellectual, educational, and social spheres. Identity ideologies are distorting historical struggles for equality, emptying them of their meaning. It is urgent to reestablish critical thinking, armed with knowledge and rigor, to stand up against this charade that is blurring the transmission of reality.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
March 24, 2025
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The World is fighting the wrong battle (again)! And La Croix is faithfully following it…
An op-ed by Michel Guerrin published in Le Monde discredits JK Rowling and her feminist commitment in favor of an ideological interpretation of the transgender issue. Jacques Robert points out that Rowling defends the most vulnerable women, without hatred or obsession, and protests against the unfair media smear she is subjected to.
Jacques-Robert
July 3, 2025
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When Wokism bites its tail
The example of a trans actress whose career collapsed after the discovery of comments deemed racist and Islamophobic reveals the contradictions of wokeism. Claudio Rubiliani exposes intersectionality, an incoherent and self-destructive ideology, ridiculed by its own excesses.
Claudio Rubiliani
April 16, 2025
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Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline
“We are losing science,” warns Weiss, who sees this politicization as an existential threat. “When remains are buried or destroyed, when museums censor their exhibits, there is nothing left to study. Unlike other disciplines, once anthropological data is lost, it cannot be recreated.”
Elizabeth Weiss nevertheless remains attached to the idea of an anthropology anchored in science and the exploration of the past. But her testimony, opposing scientific rigor to identity pretensions, suggests an uncertain future for a discipline in search of meaning.
Leonardo Orlando
25th January 2025
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About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern
Despite these few reservations, the fact remains that Transmania is a powerful and useful book. Buy it, read it… and, if possible, have it signed (wearing a helmet is recommended).
Claudio Rubiliani
October 24th 2024
Genre
When Sciences Po' mixes gender, literature and politics...
Mrs. Réjane Sénac holds a doctorate from the IEP in Paris in political science, specializing in "political thought". She holds a Master 2 in law and a Master
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
September 2, 2024
transactivism
Transidentification, by Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff
Céline Maçon and Caroline Eliacheff discuss the topic of transidentification in adolescents. They question the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and propose the term pubertal sexual anxiety.
Collective
21th June 2024
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Transgenderism: 8 reasons for its dazzling success
The defense of transgender people excites the masses, touches individuals and interests companies. What "oppressed minority" can boast such a hold on society?
Pauline Arrighi
8th June 2024
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Anatomy of a Cancel
On December 15, 2022, the Café Laïque in Brussels was attacked by a pack of trans activists. Forced entry into the premises, breaking of furniture, throwing of excrement… another one of those violent cancels that wokeism has made us accustomed to.
Mikhail Kostylev
3th May 2024
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After October 7: a Titanic of the left in democracy
October 7 revealed the failure of a Western left, divided by its support for Hamas and disconnected from its historical values such as anti-racism, secularism and the fight for equality. This fracture is symptomatic of the wokeism and Islamo-leftism that are eating away at the political debate.
Nathalie Heinich
February 27, 2024
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Mapping the Muslim Brotherhood galaxy in France (Version 2.12)
Mapping of the Muslim Brotherhood galaxy in France [UOIF, satellite associations, allies and supporters] (Version 2.12) initially published on the Lieux Communs website in February 2020 and frequently updated since.
Common Places (Collective)
15th December 2023
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Why did the Hijabeuses lose to the FFF?
The hijab women wanted the moon: to be able to play football with the hijab on their heads. Supported by several disoriented associations, the hijab women did not win their case. Alone alongside the French Football Federation (FFF), the International Women's Rights League (LDIF) stood up against religious fundamentalism and won the game. We interviewed its president Annie Sugier.
Collective
July 3, 2023
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Islamism, totalitarianism, imperialism
The ambition of this text is to put forward some elements of analysis for the purpose of understanding the Islamist phenomenon. This requires getting rid of a certain number of preconceived ideas...
Common Places (Collective)
3th June 2023
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Victim inversion: who is threatening whom?
An article in Le Monde reverses the roles by portraying so-called progressive academics as victims while imposing their ideological vision on campuses. Through several examples (Grenoble, Lyon II, student blockades, etc.), Jacques Robert denounces institutional complacency in the face of ideologies and the growing disregard for academic freedom.
Jacques-Robert
October 1th 2025
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The Collège de France and academic freedom
Jacques Robert denounces the drift of certain academic institutions such as the Collège de France, which agrees to submit to leonine clauses by signing a contract with a multinational company: academic freedom is thus undermined, as is the inalienable right to criticism.
Jacques-Robert
July 10, 2025
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“Facing woke obscurantism”: chronicle of a turbulent publication
A selection of talks and broadcasts dedicated to the book “Facing Woke Obscurantism”.
Observers Collective
July 9, 2025
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Alain Policar, the wide-eyed awake man
In his book "Wokism Doesn't Exist," Alain Policar defends a woke ideology that, under the guise of fighting discrimination, seeks the deconstruction of Western civilization. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
16th June 2025
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The Who's Woke – Pearls of Spring
Claudio Rubiliani presents his spring selection of personalities with selective commitment and ideological conformity.
Claudio Rubiliani
6th June 2025
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The Green Poster: When the French Sociology Association Presents Its Bio-Palestinian Utopia
The AFS Congress poster reveals a militant utopianism in a section of contemporary sociology. Vincent Tournier denounces the use of social sciences as an ideological tool in the service of wokeism.
Vincent Tournier
April 30, 2025
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Thinking about our world with Hannah Arendt: fidelity to reality, heritage and responsibility
In Thinking About What Happens to Us with Hannah Arendt, Bérénice Levet demonstrates the philosopher's relevance to understanding contemporary crises. Arendt contrasts modern utopia with the need to recognize our human limitations and preserve a shared world rooted in tradition and moral conscience. Reviewed by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
April 30, 2025
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When medicine forgets not to harm – “The Hippocratic Sermon” by Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson
In "The Hippocratic Sermon," Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson denounce the ideological excesses of transaffirmative medicine, particularly among minors, practices that run counter to traditional medical ethics and are sources of serious physical and psychological harm. Drawing on concrete cases, historical analyses, and the Cass report, they call for rigorous remedicalization based on psychology, clinical prudence, and child protection. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
Emmanuelle Henin
April 9, 2025
Gift Sets
About deconstruction
The concept of "deconstruction" was born from the works of Derrida and, according to his kind followers, "it has become, in the minds of reactionaries of all stripes, the portmanteau word designating everything they hate in thought, when it seeks to emancipate rather than to order."
Jacques-Robert
18th June 2024
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In search of Islamophobia…
Islamophobia has a clear political use that has been consecrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But beyond that, what does the term really mean? And is what it is supposed to designate – a deep hostility towards Muslims that has spread in French society – supported by facts?
Olivier Galland
6th June 2024
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The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism
Woke ideology has long since penetrated the daily life of the business world and public administration. There are major and unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And there are these little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which nibble away at our space of freedom every day. What are some examples? Where does it come from? What can we do?
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
February 12, 2024
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The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research
The European Research Council (ERC) budget for the seven-year Horizon Europe programme amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI). Is France autonomous in its higher education policy? No, because it conforms to European policies inspired by the United Nations aimed at achieving externally set objectives. Over the past 15 years, research and higher education in France have been silently transformed, partly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon liberal models established by Brussels.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
30th August 2023
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Critical Race Theory: When Cancerology Gets Tangled in the Woke Carpet
There is no longer any need to recall the permeability of entire sections of academic research to theories themselves stemming from French Theory and from deconstructivism at all costs. Initially confined to the human and social sciences, this groundswell is now affecting the hard sciences since perched articles such as "Queer identity and theory intersections in mathematics education: a theoretical literature review" or "A quantum physics explanation for polyamory, BDSM, and queer people" are now commonplace (1, 2).
In the USA, this trend and in particular the emergence of Critical Race Theory is now affecting medical sciences and it is with a mixture of amusement and dismay that we see the blossoming, in the major international conferences usually held in North America, of lunar works now aiming to denounce the endemic and patriarchal WASP systemic racism in the care of patients suffering from cancer.
Joseph Ciccolini
March 28, 2023
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Inclusive writing put to the test by linguistics
The claim to contribute to the social progress of inclusive writing (IE) is based on false premises, linked to a partial interpretation distorting the reality of the attested grammatical functioning of the French language. Inclusive writing is a militant reform of the language built on the denunciation of imaginary injustices deriving from symbolic interpretations that do not correspond to any strictly linguistic reality. It intends to inscribe various gender identities or to "make women visible", political marketing that has nothing in common with the description of the nominal classes of French and constitutes a political claim based on beliefs and not on empirically verified knowledge. Its supporters, even among linguists, prescribe works and references that go against the methods, data and knowledge accepted in language sciences.
Jean Szlamowicz and Yana Grinshpuhn
30th January 2023
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Review: Susan Neiman, The Left Is Not #Woke
To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."
Mireille Quivy
5th January 2025
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Should we redefine the university's missions?
Discover the excerpts from Stéphane Louryan's book, Autopsy of the University.
Collective
15th May 2024
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Polanski: Poisoned Logic
Exclusive excerpt from Sabine Prokhoris' book, "Who's Afraid of Roman Polanski?" If there is one thing that Roman Polanski had to deal with, in several forms, the fatal experience, it is the destructive power of falsification erected as a norm.
Sabine Prokhoris
February 13, 2024
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Ending Wokeism – Chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon Counter-Offensive
Wokism was born on American campuses. It has spread to England and the European continent. Will its cradle become its tomb? Here are some exclusive excerpts from Sylvie Perez's book, "Ending Wokism."
Sylvie Perez
October 25th 2023
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Woke Fiction, by Samuel Fitoussi, excerpts: how to combat the interference of wokeness in institutions?
Samuel Fitoussi's powerful work is worth a look. Here are some excerpts exclusively loaned to the Observatory that will definitely make you want to read more!
Samuel Fitoussi
September 27, 2023
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AN ATMOSPHERIC TOTALITARIANISM
This is how multiculturalism has slipped into identitarian communitarianism, and how it is turning into totalitarianism before our eyes. Savage censorship is imposed by micro-collectives that only authorize themselves, in contempt of the law, while all-out politicization transforms activists into legislators and judges, in the name of "everything is political" dear to fascist militias, Stalinist apparatchiks and their leftist heirs. And, as in any totalitarian atmosphere, fear reigns supreme, on American campuses as well as in the offices of French university presidents: fear of losing one's job, fear of losing face, fear above all of finding oneself in the wrong camp or - worse - of finding oneself alone.
Nathalie Heinich
12th May 2023
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Are policewomen women?
Jean-Claude Michéa points out to me that the murder of the Rambouillet police officer was not presented by the media as a femicide. That is true. Neither in this case, nor in any other similar one, has a policewoman's murder ever been described as a femicide. What should we conclude from this? Thanks to Monique Wittig, we learned a long time ago that "lesbians are not women"! Thanks to our journalists, we now know that female police officers, even heterosexual ones, are not either.
Collective
February 6, 2023
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Salman Rushdie is also a victim of "Islamo-complacency"
[by Renée Fregosi, excerpted with her permission from Penser Salman Rushdie, Coordinated by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, Éditions de l'Aube Released November 10, 2022] The Enemy
Renee Fregosi
October 20th 2022
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Tract #20 No birth without consent!
No birth without consent!
Every individual has the right to control his or her body and life. Yet we impose the violence of birth on our children.
Consent at birth aims to respect the fundamental principle of self-determination by asking for the child's agreement before coming into the world.
It is not about delaying birth indefinitely, but about opening a dialogue between parents and their future child, taking into account their needs and aspirations.
Consent at Birth: A Utopia? No, It's a Necessity!
Woke-Machine
4th June 2025
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Leaflet #19 For inclusive football
For inclusive football
Inclusiveness in football teams is essential to promote diversity, combat discrimination and boost performance.
By mixing genders, origins and orientations, teams can set an example, definitively turn their backs on masculinism, encourage innovation and create a caring environment for all...not to mention matches that are all the more exciting to follow.
Let us demand that, through concrete actions, teams celebrate a more inclusive, egalitarian, empowering and inspiring football for all!
Woke-Machine
28th May 2025
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Tract #18 Humor is offensive, let's ban it!
Humor is offensive, let's ban it!
Humor is incompatible with Truth, it is a form of blasphemy (Jorge de Burgos)
Humor is deeply reactionary.
The cynical buffoon ignores the offenses he provokes, he hurts and perpetuates systemic violence.
It is time to realize that humor is the expression of unconscious aggression that must be banished.
Just as we stopped spitting in the street, it's high time we stopped making jokes. Let's ban it.
Woke-Machine
14th May 2025
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Leaflet #17 Our Right to Hair Restoration
Our right to hair restoration.
Androgenetic alopecia, being bald, is a profound handicap both in terms of self-esteem and discrimination, even stigmatization. Therefore an attack on human rights.
Let us claim our right to psychosocial support, to hair restoration treatments, particularly by implants.
Woke-Machine
7th May 2025
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PERPETUAL ABOLITION: FOR A FINALLY LIBERATED DECOLONIAL FRANCE (BUT NOT TOO FAST)
While campaigning with absolute intransigence for total abolition here, we must guard against any attempt at hasty judgment on non-Western societies which, for their part, have perhaps found in certain forms of servitude a civilizational balance that it is not up to us to deconstruct. The essential thing is to abolish, again and again, in France only.
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
February 28, 2025
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Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10
A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.
Claudio Rubiliani
February 24, 2025
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Degendering the game of chess
A remnant of a monarchical universe with nauseating sexist and patriarchal overtones, a chessboard condenses all inequalities and all discriminations.
Julien Damon
September 30, 2024
mood(s)
Wooden apologies
At Columbia, the president, Nemat Shafik, known as Minouche, had to call the police on campus to dislodge pro-Palestinian students from their camps and from university buildings where they had no business, Hamilton Hall in particular. About a hundred of them had been arrested: this somewhat disconcerted them, having been raised in the absence of contradiction and unable to accept being accused of harassing those they believe to be responsible for or approving of the war in the Middle East and who have only the "fault" of being Jewish.
Jacques-Robert
September 23, 2024
mood(s)
Woke-Machine, the best of June 2024
Best-of June 2024 from Woke-Machine, haven of all deconstructions…
Collective
July 22, 2024
mood(s)
Woke-Machine, the best of May 2024
Best-of May 2024 from Woke-Machine, haven of all deconstructions…
Collective
18th June 2024
Chronicle of a successful transition
At this conference, I would like to talk about a fully successful personal transition. For about 50 years, I knew that I was not in the right body…
Jacques-Robert
18th June 2024
A quantum teaching
A management science teacher at the University of Montpellier 3, Bénédicte Gendron, is setting up a Master 2 whose program is worthy of the columns of Gorafi and has quickly made the rounds of online comedians.
Jacques-Robert
18th June 2024
Reading : Compte rendu
“Why Intellectuals Are Wrong” by Samuel Fitoussi – the good leaves
The best parts of Samuel Fitoussi's latest work, which highlights the ideological excesses and support given by many 20th-century intellectuals to totalitarian regimes, showing that culture and intelligence do not protect against error, but can sometimes lead to it with zeal.
Review: Susan Neiman, The Left Is Not #Woke
To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."
Reading note: “Do we still want to live together?” by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
After a damning diagnosis of the intellectual disaster that Wokism represents in the West, Tavoillot devotes his book to avenues of reconstruction. He identifies universal practices that he calls "seven pillars of conviviality": shared meals, couple relationships, intergenerational transmission, religious practices, among others. These pillars, deeply rooted in human experience, are considered as levers to restore an authentic social bond.
Sociolinguistics between science and ideology. A response to Linguists atterrées (Book review of Lionel MENEY's book)
LM's book is easy to read. It does not claim to close the debate, and is clearly intended for a non-specialist audience. While the author lets the irritation that may have led him to react to the LA Tract show here and there, he does not give in to the ease of polemics and manages to retain the reader's interest through the coherence of the critical responses he provides.
About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern
Despite these few reservations, the fact remains that Transmania is a powerful and useful book. Buy it, read it… and, if possible, have it signed (wearing a helmet is recommended).
Should Alice Recoque be placed in the Pantheon? A Little Manual of De-Invisibility
This text discusses the effectiveness of the book “Who Wanted to Erase Alice Recoque?” published in February 2024, which quickly rehabilitated Alice Recoque, a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, by generating a large media and political momentum. Recoque, born in 1929 and died in 2021, is known for her role in the design of French computers in the 1950s and 70s. The book, driven by a theory of the invisibility of women in the history of science, and amplified by influential figures, led to the decision to name a European supercomputer after her in 2024. The text analyzes how a well-orchestrated narrative strategy can transform a forgotten subject into a major public figure, and the literary mechanisms of disinvisibility used in it.
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