Rhetorical toolkit for responding to a woke person
Articles that document the most frequently asked questions faced by public and private institutions
Created in January 2021, the Observatory of Decolonialism and Identity Ideologies brings together around one hundred academics from various disciplines. Its mission is to document methodically and annually the development of identity ideologies in higher education and research. Some articles in this rhetorical kit aim to summarize the answers provided by researchers to questions of Islamophobia, gender discrimination, etc.
Anti-Wokeism Manifesto
A specter haunts contemporary societies: that of "wokism." In universities, government offices, and public and professional spaces, an insidious ideology seeks to redefine cultural, social, and political norms. It claims to champion inclusion, equality, and social justice, but in reality, it is rooted in a
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."
In search of Islamophobia…
Islamophobia has a clear political use, notably championed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But beyond that, what is the term's true meaning? And is what it is supposed to designate—a deep-seated hostility towards Muslims that has supposedly spread throughout French society—supported by facts?
The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism
Woke ideology has long since permeated the daily lives of businesses and public administration. There are major, unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And then there are those little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which
The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research
The European Research Council (ERC) budget allocated to the seven-year Horizon Europe program amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, within the framework of the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (EFRI). Is France autonomous in its
Critical Race Theory: When Cancerology Gets Tangled in the Woke Carpet
It is no longer necessary to reiterate the permeability of entire swathes of academic research to theories themselves stemming from French Theory and unbridled deconstructionism. Initially confined to the humanities and social sciences, this underlying trend is now reaching the hard sciences, as evidenced by articles perched high on
Inclusive writing put to the test by linguistics
The claim that inclusive writing (EI) contributes to social progress is based on false premises, linked to a biased interpretation that distorts the reality of the established grammatical functions of the French language. Inclusive writing is a militant language reform built on the denunciation of imagined injustices stemming from misinterpretations.
Social sciences and wokeness: why France is a special case
The phenomenon known as "woke" or "wokism" is international: initially developed on North American campuses in the late 2010s and quickly spreading to the worlds of culture, politics, and even business, it soon crossed the Atlantic to invest
We are the lawyers of the dead
The New York Times recently published an article about the defacement of the Victor Hugo statue by Ousmane Sow in Besançon, which led to reprehensible acts of violence perpetrated by radicalized identitarians who were ill-advised to attack a statue of Victor Hugo. This subject had