- Can you summarize the Observatory’s ambition (opinion, research, activism)?
The collective is united to fight against the promotion of decolonialism, sexism and racism by new ideologies; and to defend the promotion of equality and the transmission of knowledge linked to language, school and secularism.
- Are you linked to a university entity?
The term "entity" is not appropriate. The University is an Institution that houses Training and Research Units and laboratories, which themselves may depend on different Institutions. But the University does not summarize all French research, since there are Organizations whose mission is to pilot Research and Innovation in France (CNRS, INSERM, INRIA). Each member of the collective is a researcher officially registered for his research and missions in one of these institutions, or even several: we are therefore linked to as many "university entities" as there are academics in the collective. This is what legitimizes our approach.
- How many active members (editors, etc.) and personalities do you estimate have publicly expressed their support for you?
To date, there are about a hundred of us collaborating on the in-depth reflection; but also on writing articles on the site, maintaining social networks and the YouTube channel. More than a thousand people have subscribed to our online magazine.
- Humor is very present in your productions and on your site. Why?
Humor is a component of freedom. More than humor, we assume an ironic discourse on the moral claims conveyed by gender or race theories because we believe that irony is a very powerful educational tool.
- What approach drives your latest report (scientific, journalistic, etc.)?
Our approach seeks to put an end to the denial that has been systematically opposed to us when we expressed our astonishment at the rapid development of gender and race ideologies in the University. We see ourselves as whistleblowers on the distortion of the principles that structure the University.
- Do you consider yourself a media?
We are first and foremost a collective of researchers and teachers, and we also run an online journal which has its own ISSN.
- Several academics have been insulted or even threatened after members of the Observatory named them in the media. Have you taken measures to prevent this from happening again?
We only focus on criticizing intellectual productions made public by their authors and we expose ourselves first to insults and threats by taking part in the debate in our own name. The existence of deplorable comments on social networks should not lead to the establishment of censorship.
