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"In the United States, the return of the idea of ​​self-government"

2020-07-14T16:23:50.118Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - Weakened across the Atlantic by the criticisms addressed by activists of the Black Lives Matter movement, statism is called into question, even more fiercely, by the resurgence of the old American ideal of self-government, observes the essayist Renaud Beauchard.


It is July 4 (National Day in the United States) and the atmosphere is revolutionary. But it is only in the United States where the revolution takes the form of a Maoist revolt sponsored by the elite and disguised as a black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a self-help manual written by a consultant corporate preaching white guilt, and a series of New York Times articles rewriting history to explain an election whose authors never accepted the outcome. ” The words of political journalist Matt Taibbi give the full measure of the surreal atmosphere that reigns in the United States. The self-help to which he refers is the top-selling book on Amazon's charts for several weeks,White Fragility, authored by business consultant Robin DiAngelo.

It maintains that the universalist idea of ​​a common humanity as the basis of human rights is a lie of white power, and that we

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