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Guillaume Tabard: "The dangerous illusion of a single generational vote"

2020-12-06T01:04:14.020Z


COUNTER-POINT - It is fallacious to claim that all under 30s in France have as their primary indignation the violence committed by the police.


Youth is not only a temporary state, it is also a misleading concept, often weighed down with political ulterior motives.

To follow Emmanuel Macron's interview on Brut., Talking to young people would therefore be explaining oneself, justifying oneself on the accusations of "police violence", a whole hour, before moving on to suspicions of racism and the debate on 'Islam.

To talk about studies, training, employment, poverty, daily life, we had to wait almost an hour and a half.

Yet it is about the educational, economic and social consequences of the Covid crisis that the Head of State launched on television in October:

"it's hard to be 20 years old in 2020".

In terms of communication, Macron's choice is understandable.

Brut., Like many media or social networks, is a vector of information and expression which corresponds more to the practices of the youngest citizens than the so-called “traditional” media.

Speaking to all categories of French supposes

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Source: lefigaro

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