Posted on 10/02/2021 5:33:30 AM PDT by conservative98
Some prominent French figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, are rejecting "woke" ideology that has been imported from the United States amid a breakdown in relations between the two nations.
A cover story by Le Spectacle Du Monde, one of France's leading magazines, recently ran a piece titled "The Suicide of America" in which it blames the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan on a "woke dictatorship" and questioned whether the American "empire was collapsing," Zenger News reported.
Macron, who has been criticized by French progressives, told Elle Magazine this past summer that woke culture was "racializing" French society, Zenger reported.
"I see that our society is becoming progressively racialized," he said.
Several members of his government have also shared anti-woke views, including Elisabeth Moreno, the french French delegate minister for gender equality and diversity.
"The ‘woke’ culture is something very dangerous, and we shouldn’t bring it to France," she told Bloomberg News in May.
Protests erupt in France against COVID health passesVideo A panel at the year's "Tocqueville Conversations," near Normandy discussed the perceived decline of free speech and expression in the United States that some attribute to "woke" culture.
"Our mantra is that we should talk even if we strongly disagree. Nothing prevents you from talking and exchanging and dialoguing," Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville, the descendant of 19th-century liberal philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, told the news outlet. "The French Revolution was an event that led to a bloody civil war because the people who were not in agreement with the new ideas, the really revolutionary ideas, were just killed and beheaded. It was not a good way to debate."
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Is this really about the submarines?…
Woke and Islam don’t mix well!
Vive la France!
Americans reject this “woke” culture being forced on us.
Real Americans reject wokism. Those forcing it on us reject America.
Sage words, Sir.
And they reject America because they reject God.
Yes, Sir. I pray we wake up soon and accept the Lord into our collective lives.
So some leaders of some countries recognize a bad deal when they see one.
The French still have a sense of national unity, even if the European Union is trying to destroy it.
Well said!
FTA: Several members of his government have also shared anti-woke views, including Elisabeth Moreno, the french French delegate minister for gender equality and diversity.
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Am I the only one who sees the irony in this sentence?
Amen.
France has been fighting the “woke” all along.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that the French love their culture and especially, their language.
Too bad they did not understand decades ago that admitting les Islamists was a very bad idea.
I have a difficult time believing Macron taking this position. It would be like BeijingBiden waking up one day and actually behaving like a liberal, instead of a commie tool.
Froggies speaking truth. Who woulda thunk?
I see someone in the business of woke saying enough all ready. What do you see as ironic?
Seems like holding the position of “minister for gender equality and diversity” is a major contribution to the culture destruction plan referred to as “woke”.
Seems like she knows what she’s talking about and believes it has gone too far.
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