Luc Ferry: “Wokism, legacy of “68 thinking””

Luc Ferry: “Wokism, legacy of “68 thinking””

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Luc Ferry: “Wokism, legacy of “68 thinking””

Read more  Reserved for subscribersCHRONICLE – It is indeed the deconstruction of the republican idea that we are witnessing in favor of a return to the paradoxically reactionary vision. After so many others (including yours truly…), Frédéric Beigbeder will therefore have also experienced this violent purge that activists now practice in the name of wokism, “cancel culture” and “deconstruction”. This word, borrowed from Heidegger by Derrida, was once still part of the vocabulary of philosophy. A sign of the times, it has taken its place, as in the United States, in ordinary language, as evidenced among other things by the words of Sandrine Rousseau on her “deconstructed man”. For reasons that are not trivial, “deconstruction” has become a formidable war machine against our republican universalism, a universalism that the left-wing American press simply considers racist, because it is “color blind,” “color blind,” blind to the color of races at the same time as to the now famous “white privilege,” a typical expression of wokeism that President Macron did not hesitate to make his own – which explains, by the way… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 79% left to discover. 

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CHRONICLE – It is indeed the deconstruction of the republican idea that we are witnessing in favor of a return to a paradoxically reactionary vision.

After so many others (including yours truly…), Frédéric Beigbeder will therefore also have experienced this violent purge that activists now practice in the name of wokism, "cancel culture" and "deconstruction".

This word, borrowed from Heidegger by Derrida, was once still part of the vocabulary of philosophy. As a sign of the times, it has taken its place, as in the United States, in ordinary language, as has been shown by, among others: the words of Sandrine Rousseau its "deconstructed man". For reasons that are not at all anecdotal, “deconstruction” has become a formidable war machine against our republican universalism, a universalism that the left-wing American press simply considers racist, because it is “color blind,” “color blind,” blind to the color of races at the same time as to the now famous “white privilege,” a typical expression of wokeism that President Macron did not hesitate to make his own – which explains in passing…

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