Never short of ideas to restart a slightly seized machine, Le Monde has just published yet another article defending wokeism[1]Does this mean that our valiant progressive academics are tired of their platforms which all say the same thing (and which ultimately give us good publicity?[2]) ? In any case, two journalists were entrusted with the task of putting coins into the slapping machine, just to keep their hand in.
The originality of this new paper is that it surprisingly reverses the roles of good and bad, executioner and victim, outraged and outraged. Because here's the scoop: on campus, progressive academics are living a real ordeal. You thought that reactionaries and other conservatives had the greatest difficulty expressing themselves, that they were forced to monitor their words and even the content of their courses.[3] to avoid the risk of being threatened or even chased[4] by various categories of students and sometimes teachers who are followers of gender theory, the Palestinian cause and the great evening of racialized people? Well! No way: in reality, they are the ones who make the law, according to the Monde !
So much bad faith in the presentation of the situation is laughable. We also laugh when we read that a man named Baudot, quoted in the article, considered that those who protest against the stranglehold of wokeism on the university are " academics in decline, in search of media recognition that they do not have in the academic field "When this Baudot that the journalists of Le Monde have unearthed will be as well known and recognized in his academic discipline as the three coordinators and the twenty contributors of In the face of woke obscurantism, we'll talk about it again. Quick count on Amazon: Pierre-Nicolas Baudot, zero books; Pierre Vermeren: a good fifteen works; Xavier-Laurent Salvador: five; Emmanuelle Hénin: five also. The same goes for most of the contributors[5] like Nathalie Heinich, Guylain Chevrier, Nicolas Weill-Parot, Pierre-André Taguieff and many others.
We still laugh, but with sad laughter, when we read in the article that Donald Trump set the tone for our actions. Clearly, the left still does not want to consider that, among the reasons for his election, there could be weariness with the excesses of a fringe of the Democrats.[6] on wokeness. Yet, every time Kamala Harris began a speech by stating her "pronouns," she lost 500,000 votes. National Institutes of Health funded research on transgender mice by feeding them cross-hormones[7]The University of Michigan paid[8] 1100 non-faculty employees to deal with DEI (Diversity, equity, inclusion). It was easy to call on voters to witness the excesses to get elected, and any other Ubu would have been elected under these conditions.
The article from Monde is 14,000 characters long, including spaces. Each sentence deserves to be commented on, as the statements are so dishonest and biased. Here are a few.
The most confusing passage is the "Grenoble affair" from five years ago, revisited by Le Monde ; journalists are blaming a teacher at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP), publicly booed for "Islamophobia," for the media amplification of this attack. Just think: not only did he dare to alert a television channel, but the terrible "fachosphere" also dared to seize the case. And now a director of the IEP is delighted that "the controversy is dying down" and that the students are acquitted... Notice to students: you can boo, threaten, denounce on dazibaos the teachers who don't think like you, you risk nothing! The university hierarchy will support you. As for the teachers, they will come out of this story "exhausted," not by your threats, but by the mistreated professor who dared to protest and alert public opinion. To make the IEP bend, the region had to suspend its funding, which led the IEP to make a "republican" commitment that was clearly not a given.
Now here is a professor at the University of Lyon II, Fabrice Balanche, who is banned from classes by a horde of excited students who assume he has this or that opinion on the geopolitics of the Middle East, of which he is a great specialist. The president of the university, instead of supporting him, agrees with the students.[9]. So here is another matter that undoubtedly "tires" his colleagues, who would like to remain quietly in their little comfort without looking at what is happening next door. This is how tyrannies are born: through disinterest, through passivity, through the conformism of those who should be carrying the banner of freedom high and strong, that is to say, intellectuals, first and foremost academics.
I fully agree with Francis Dupuis-Déri's point of view: " This is political agitation, addressed to an electorate " Indeed, we saw this clearly when the pro-Palestinians blocked Sciences Po and several universities. Oh, but not at all! He means that it is the students who want to work who are destabilizing these brave pacifist activists who are spreading fear among Jewish students, for example those who were excluded from their WhatsApp group because of a Jewish-sounding first name.[10]. As for students or teachers who "go into exile" to pursue their research abroad, in Canada in particular, their existence is doubted. Proof! In any case, if they apply to the University of Ottawa, they risk disappointment since, there, a position has been opened "to qualified Black people from Africa or the African diaspora[11] ».
