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Police officers beaten up: the boss of the ecologists "hears that the term lynching" is "not suitable for a white person"

2020-11-30T20:02:07.652Z


Questioned by an Afro-feminist director and activist, Julien Bayou presented his “apologies” on Twitter. The latter considers that the term he used can and should only refer to black people in the history of the United States.


How to qualify the aggression of a police officer by several dozen demonstrators?

If the agent in question is

“white”

, Julien Bayou

“hears

” that “

the term 'lynching'”

is not

“suitable”

.

The head of Europe Ecology-The Greens made this admission after having used it himself at first, condemning on Twitter the

“horrible images of police lynching in Bastille

”, filmed on Saturday during the demonstration against the “security law”.

The national secretary of EELV finally reconsidered his remarks after being arrested by Amandine Gay, a director and activist

"afrofeminist"

.

"The trivialization of the term 'lynching' and its use by white people to describe online harassment or IRL attacks

(acronym for" in real life ", which means" in real life ", Editor's note)

not only leads to erasing the experience and suffering of black people, but also to reverse reality, ”

she said in a tweet.

Amandine Gay considers that the term still refers today to the

“murders of black people by hanging by a crowd”,

frequent in the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, and that it

“still specifically concerns blacks”.

The activist accuses Julien Bayou of

“participating in a system of dehumanization of blacks”

.

Faced with these accusations, Julien Bayou found it useful to present his "

apologies

".

"I especially did not want to generate this reaction, erase the suffering of black people and even less reverse history",

saw fit to justify the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens.

Before continuing:

“I hear that the term lynching is not suitable for a white person, a fortiori custodian of public authority.

I would take an exchange to determine how to qualify the fact that a crowd attacks a police officer, which unfortunately happened yesterday

”.

"Deaf" government: "The hearing impaired associations have already challenged us"

Julien Bayou finally affirms - contrary to what Amandine Gay suggests a little further - that his initial tweet

"does not question (his) sincere indignation in the face of

what happened to Michel Zecler

"

, the music producer attacked by police officers last Saturday in Paris.

Nor his

"commitment to end systemic violence against racialized people

.

"

Interviewed by

Le Figaro

, Julien Bayou did not seem to approve the idea that a term could evolve over time, and see its meaning go beyond the sole framework of its initial definition.

“The term 'lynching' has evolved, but that does not prevent it from being returned in a historical context, especially when one is questioned by the first concerned.

Words matter.

My role as a politician is to pay attention to what we say,

”he emphasizes.

Before taking another example:

"The deaf associations have already challenged us when we said that 'the government was deaf'".

Source: lefigaro

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