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Pierre Vermeren

If wokism were a movie, it would be "Battle After Battle"

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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Jacques-Robert

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.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

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...

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Jacques-Robert

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...

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Patrick Henriet

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.

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Jacques-Robert

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.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

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.

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Emmanuelle Henin

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.

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