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"The new puppets from the Lyon town hall"

2020-07-14T12:57:37.428Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The new EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet begins his mandate with divisive measures, such as the adoption of inclusive writing and the ban on the patrol of France for July 14, regrets the essayist Anne- Sophie Chazaud.


Anne-Sophie Chazaud is Anne-Sophie Chazaud is a researcher at the Doctoral College of Philosophy (UCLY) and author of Liberté d'inexpression, contemporary forms of censorship, to be published in September 2020 (published by Artilleryman).

In a particularly disaster-stricken and disturbed context, between a major health crisis (fundamentally distorting the sincerity of the ballot), societal decompensation and a crisis of confidence or even total distrust of citizens with regard to politics, a small handful of large French cities took advantage of a record abstention rate (often above 60%) to go under the leadership of lists of left-wing unions, appropriately mobilized to exploit this "window" and grouped behind the standard of political ecology in vogue as often in intermediate polls.

In Lyon, the new EELV mayor, Grégory Doucet, whose team campaigned to seize what was presented as a fief of Macronie (even if Gérard Collomb ended up opposing it with a certain force ), finally applies the same methods as what he claimed to be fighting, a clearing that only replaces another: a ballot that is certainly legal but fundamentally illegitimate in view of the very low rate of representativeness of the votes cast (19% of those registered !), and a team which, far from seeking the consensus and the humility that these figures should naturally produce, as soon as it arrives strikes cleavage measures, violently symbolic, devoid of consultation and disrespectful of previous balances no more than a any spirit of concord.

It is difficult to see how one of the first measures in the new municipality of Lyon was to focus on the adoption of inclusive writing.

If we can understand that a growing share of the inhabitants of large metropolises, gentrified and culturally boboized, legitimately aspires to an improvement in the quality of the urban environment, if we can willingly support measures aimed at making mobility smoother, easier circulation, better air quality and more pleasant life, it is hard to see how one of the very first measures of this new municipality had to focus urgently on the adoption of inclusive writing , except to consider that the so-called toxic masculinity allegedly contained in the language of Molière produces CO2 emissions perhaps discernable to the naked eye by Greta Thunberg, who knows ...

This writing is mainly characterized by its charcutage of the French language, making it illegible, heavy, painful, tedious, turning, in a slightly ridiculous ostentation, the back, in the name of an alleged equality between men and women, more than a thousand years of linguistic construction. Its use has moreover been judiciously prohibited in official and administrative texts by the government of Edouard Philippe as well as sanctioned by the French Academy. This is probably enough to give its followers the little thrill of the transgression they so much seek, which they hope and desire with their whole being, in this heavy and interminable conformism of anti-conformism: shocking the bourgeois, here is a pale and yellowed idea of ​​the dying old world.

Like everything related to language, we are there in the register of the symbolic.

It is doubtful that the adoption of this cryptic writing, wandering somewhere between the Javanese and the Linear B, and particularly complex to handle for those who are most learning or cognitive difficulties (but the ideology of egalitarianism is well ignore the real inequalities it produces, as long as the children of a culturally well-off caste can indulge themselves narcissistically with the thrill of junk progressism) contributes to improving the quality of Lyon's air.

Like everything related to language, we are there in the register of the symbolic: no matter what is real, what matters is the message that we address, as unreadable as it is or, precisely because it is unreadable and, behind it, the specter of ideology which replaces the flexibility and fluidity of the common verb and speech: what matters is precisely that you do not find yourself there. We are going to show them, to these bourgeois but also to these Lyonnais populos, of what wood we are warming, we who are so comfortable with words, with culture, we winners of globalization to whom nothing scares ... And we are impatiently awaiting the translation into inclusive language of the famous Littré de la Grand'Cote, for the use of those who want to speak and write correctly, written in 1894 by the said Nizier de Puitspelu under the aegis of the Académie du Gourguillon, or even the writing in inclusive writing of the Plaisante wisdomse lyonnaise, written in 1920 by the said Catherin Bugnard, perpetual secretary of the Académie des Pierres-Plantées ... quite simply to censor some of these pleasant and famous popular maxims known to all Lyonnais because of their obvious sexism: "If you show your wife and your pecuniaries too much, you risk very much being borrowed from you." And in terms of getting them back, chances are it will come back to you faster than them ” …? Contrary to what it claims to be, inclusive writing is a pure sign of distinction, of cultural domination and therefore of exclusion, in the Bourdieuian sense of the term, because only those who master all codes can afford the luxury of deconstruct them for fun as others play crosswords in order to deceive their boredom. Inclusive writing tells those who are forced to undergo it: see how I know better than you what to say and think and how you will now have to express it!

Inclusive writing says to those who are forced to undergo it: “See how I know better than you what to say and think. "

Ecology is not the real subject: what matters is to shape minds against their will. The ecology, moreover, we seek in vain in this other "decision" (which will not weigh very heavy in truth) of the new Mayor aiming to stop the TGV Lyon-Turin project, which project will however finally rid, after so many years, many roads, passes and alpine valleys of the passage of trucks. To ban, censor, impose, even at the cost of stupidity: this is how punitive leftism works, for which environmental virtues will be sought in vain.

The Patrouille de France, this flagship of the Air Force, was to cross the Lyon sky on July 13. It will not be anything has it still been decided by this same municipality, in a diktat based on an alleged health precaution, even though the principle of an airplane is that we can watch it pass from n ' anywhere, just looking up from the window, without the need for crowds, which makes the show quite democratic. We can easily imagine with great compassion how painful this measure preventing popular and patriotic action must have been for the new Mayor… "On July 14, I stay in my Doucet bed", except that it is lacking all the benevolent and warm empathic roundness of a Brassens in love with the French language.

This desire to “degenerate” male-female practices disappears when it comes to adopting a firming action in the face of the bath burqa, however “gendered”.

Undoubtedly all enthused by this beautiful emulation of rhônalpin leftism, the incontrovertible mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, elected thanks to the same disinterest citizen for these elections in the form of masquerade (more than 64% of abstention…) which, this year, n 'has not yet fed the usual summer soap opera from the floating Burkinis in the municipal swimming pool, has also rushed greedily on the French language, taking advantage of the societalist pruritic crisis that has temporarily taken hold of post-Covidian Western societies. The city councilor thus committed a tweet in a salmigondis woke of the most beautiful invoice: “The schoolyards of our children resemble parking lots in asphalt, hot in summer and too reserved for the practices of the boys. The solution: de-spray, degenerate, vegetate and vegetable! ... ” . One thing is certain: to be in the soup, we are there ... Again, if the initial idea of ​​improving the quality of life in schools is commendable, we can only note this same taste of the charcutage of the language but also this will to forcefully introduce a profound change in the construction of individuals. "Degenerate", "boy practices" , what does that mean? Does this mean that football, marbles and energetic games should be banned in order to make an entire population completely apathetic and contemplative? On the contrary, can we not include more the little girls who, like the author of these lines, never left his leather ball and his lead bastards and who would hardly have appreciated being forced to go instead plant salads?

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Under the guise of inclusion and anti-sexism, this vision actually reveals a very archaic conception of "genres". At least the Mayor of Lyon wants to encourage the female team of Olympique Lyonnais, 4 times victorious in the prestigious Champions League ... all hope is therefore not totally lost on this side ( it must be said that whoever dares to get in the way of Jean-Michel Aulas is not yet born). We wonder, moreover, if this asserted desire to "degenerate" male-female practices does not have some unfortunate tendency to suddenly disappear like snow in the sun when it comes to adopting a discourse and a firm action in the face of the bath burqa and other external clothing signs of political Islam, yet quite "gendered" if there is one ... So once these puppets are over, we should not miss depolluting the Grenoble language but also all the clichés and the ideology which it conveys, and in passing, to reread Roland Barthes: "Language is neither reactionary nor progressive. It is simply fascist, because fascism is not to prevent saying, it is to force to say. ” . It is easy to see on which side this desire to “force to say” is currently leaning, which, however, is readily coupled with the spirit of censorship.

The show for the next six years in these municipalities is sure to be often fun, it started out as a trumpet (non-military), and we are tempted to say that voters will only get what they want deserve… Because, as La Plaisante Sagesse Lyonnaise says, “Average task of not letting go of nonsense, because you may run after it, you will have trouble catching them up” , even at the speed of a TGV for Turin.

Source: lefigaro

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