About this France-Inter broadcast – “Zoom-zoom-zen” is not the sound of an insect charging at you but the title of a public service program. Its mocking moralizing is as annoying as the noisy fly. Its purpose is to “zoom in on a word to really understand it (and) go over the issue with a specialist, a survival guide, to stay in tune with our times.”[1]. A vast program! The listener will not die an idiot. He will "understand" wokeism thanks to the survival kit (stink bombs and brass knuckles), intended to correct those who have the nerve to challenge the prodigious societal advances of the Camp of Good. The "citizen awakening", promoted totem of the day, would be the invention of a clique of crypto-fascist Don Quixotes that a moral panic launches to attack this chimera. They organized, at the beginning of 2022 at the Sorbonne, a conference with the sole aim of discrediting the noble fight against injustices and inequalities of which the fine team is the standard-bearer. The host calls it a "bluff" and his guest, a professor at Sciences-Po, a "smoke screen". Our survival guide to this scam is called “Réjane Sénac, Research Director at the CNRS, lecturer at Sciences Po at the political research center (Cevipof), author of “Radicals and fluids: contemporary mobilizations” (Presses de Sciences Po, October 2021)”.
"Blanquer," the journalist added, "fell into the trap of discrediting certain teachings."
Two barbarisms being better than one to drive the point home, she is also a "political scientist, specialist in equality, discrimination and diversity, director of the political science department at Sciences Po, author of L'égalité sans conditions." (our emphasis). This academic luminary relegates to the rank of "anecdote" the dismissal of her colleagues who denounce a supposedly ectoplasmic wokism and salutes the objectivity of France Culture which allows Finkielkraut to continue a program, which must of course be listened to with a pinch of salt.
"Blanquer," the journalist adds, "fell into the trap of discrediting certain teachings," particularly those of the genre, whose intersectional fluidity is essential to the intellectual development of students. The rest of the show is of the same jubilant flour. The Torquemada and Savonarola of the 21st century combine the Inquisition and imprecation to condemn to the stake the enemies of freedom, democracy and the Republic, in short the "conservatives," a term more chic than fascist.
Last month, Mathias Vicherat, Madame Sénac's boss, stated to Laurence Ferrari: "there is no wokism at Sciences-Po". He added in the same breath: "it is forbidden for Sc-Po teachers to promote inclusive writing". The vague formula betrays a certain embarrassment but implies a link between two militant excesses that Vicherat condemns as energetically as he denies their presence in his establishment. Réjane Sénac nevertheless "promotes" the leveling effect of a cretinizing spelling whose use a ministerial instruction formally bans and she defends this wokism, which her enemies only invoke to cover so much indispensable scientific research with opprobrium. She thus violates with impunity the prohibitions of her director, their minister and the French Academy. The former seems to be unaware of what is going on in his shop, unless he is lying, deliberately. Ulcerated by these "paranoids who see wokeness everywhere", he does not explain why the virus that is eating away at most Western universities would miraculously spare Sc.-Po. Since the disappearance of Richard Descoings, the institution has clearly still not found its compass.
Totalitarian regimes no longer have a monopoly on institutionalized lying. The helots of the woke sect erect semantic manipulation into a system, convinced of the prescriptive value of the words that their egalitarian credo inspires them, like the crusaders who feminize titles and functions in a hussar fashion. Zoom-zoom-zen endorses this Coué method that is also practiced by the inclusivist activist, nevertheless a professor at Sc-Po, who proudly reformulates the republican trilogy by substituting solidarity for fraternity. The word, from the Latin frater, is "connoted", translate: it excludes the sister. Horresco referens. He is condemned to death for excess sexist and macho-patriarchal testosterone.
All these arbiters of political correctness sanitize wokism with a promptness that is only matched by the fervor they attribute to their opponents to attack their phantasmagorical mills. In unison with Sénac, Vicherat and Co, Le Monde of January 9 offers another example.[2]. With his customary rigor and finesse, he warns us that the situation is serious. "The attack on gender studies and racism threatens academic freedom." The opponents of the inclusivist doxa are blowing a wind of panic over society and this is what is postulated in the work of a Franco-Canadian, Francis Dupuis-Déri, whose argument is the polar opposite of his compatriot Bock-Côté, whom he cuts into fine rumps: "Panic at the University: Political Correctness, Wokes and Other Imaginary Threats"[3]. According to this Quebecer, "the University is very little like what these panicked speeches would have us believe." (p. 27) (…) "Media amplification corresponds exactly to the creation of a "moral panic" (p. 54). Further on, moving pages plead in favor of the Black Blocks, these peaceful hooded reformists, whom nasty "reactionary polemicists" slander and demonize for trifles, for "a few trash cans knocked over, windows smashed and projectiles thrown at heavily armed police officers" (p. 136-137.).
Whether it comes from France-Inter, Sciences-Po, Le Monde or Quebec, this gibberish of incoherent and sensationalist incantations, disguised as progressivism, is an attack on common sense. However, it confirms a glaring truth: the situation is serious. It encourages us to refuse submission to egalitarian-diversity ukases in order to have this "Courage of civilizational dissidence" to which Bérénice Levet calls us[4].
