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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Macron and Putin are fountains of wisdom compared to the leaders of this nation.
Well, I hope she renounces the policies that have led to this point and acknowledges that positions such as hers have been part of problem.
What is hugely ironic is that a majority of the philosophical underpinning of the “woke” movement was a product of French “intellectuals” such as Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida.
Let’s not forget the Italian contribution via Antonio Gramsci.
And the German help via The School of Marxism at Frankfurt.
Both were very much in demand at our Ivy League schools during the ‘50s and still now.
More than a little too late; it’d been overwhelming France for at least the last 50 years.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that the French love their culture and especially, their language.
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