Mr. Martel please pick up the courtesy phone...
The French are pretty arrogant about their culture, so this isn’t really that much of a surprise.
The funny thing is that all of this “Woke” thought is the product of French post-modernists who started influencing American universities in the 1960s.
Sorry but France has already committed cultural suicide. They are beyond redemption. Their rants are the whines of dying, tortured, tormented men.
The French are... well... the French. And I view their arrogance about maintaining French culture as a strength. Why shouldn’t they be proud of, and want to maintain their culture? (unlike the Swedes, who are pathetic.)
France is looking at all the Woke Addicts here and is appalled.
Macron is pro-E.U. — but he is also a patriot. And he reflects a lot of liberal to moderately liberal French people and elites.
France is one of those countries very similar to the US. Once you leave the metropolitan cities like Lyon or Paris...general feelings are more conservative in nature.
The problem with Le Pen and her National Rally party....they can’t construct a theme which draws the urban folks or the heavily-influenced socialists.
Sorry, but those ideas were theirs in the first place. People ranging from Jean Genet to Michel Foucault, as well as scads of lesser known French “intellectuals,” were actually the ones who instilled that ideology into gullible American culture. Not vice-versa.
“Why on earth would a country that in the past has been held out as an example of progressive social policies turn against wokism?”
There is a higher percentage of ethnically non-French muslims in France, then there are of African-Americans in the United States.
They have a real problem to manage.
Franceis observing,and learning,from the identity politics tearing apart America. What isn’t stated is that it is to usher in marxism.
Mr. Martel please pick up the courtesy phone...
France has subsumed much of it’s own sovereignty under the EU. They are not getting it back. The end game of the EU is a homogenous metropolitan, consumer culture. That will end all tribalism/nationalism in the Left’s eyes.
They may pull out of it, but I predict that they are headed in the same direction as us....a slow almost imperceptiable death...a death by 1000 cuts.
Macron is at SERIOUS RISK of defeat to the Extremist* Marine LePen, so yes, he is trying to act like he cares about the survival of France as a French state.
*she’s an extremist because she believes that France should protect its culture.
The AT article goes into more detail with an answer, but it seems to me that a lot of French citizens are like American citizens. They are people like people anywhere. They value their culture. Wokism and progressive social policies do not need to go hand-in-hand. Wokism is an American problem. It occurs when the establishment elites no longer value traditional American culture. There's a huge majority of Americans that are not woke and never will be. France has it establishment elites as well, but they certainly see no valid reason for destroying their culture when they have already firmly won the battle for socialism.
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