Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Each week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox. His latest book
Neuroses media.
The world has become a mob
has appeared at Plon.
A large part of the chronicles that I publish in these columns are devoted, in the light of current events, to the theme of the neurotic madness of time - in the psychiatric sense - associated with the neighboring themes of racial or gender obsessions and suspicious censorship. of the discourse of the essentially suspects that white men have become.
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One of the most recent chronicles was dedicated to the emotional dictatorship exercised mainly by the racialist far-left, the last pretext of which was alleged systemic police violence.
This time, a new case study, this dictatorship of emotion under the guise of alleged racism will have shown its power, its excess, as much as its madness through a football match.
The whole planet now knows that on Wednesday 9 December at 9 p.m. 22 minutes 23 seconds, during the meeting between Paris-Saint-Germain and Turkish club Basaksehir, 22 players left the lawn to protest against the comments deemed racist by 'a Romanian referee.
The fear of being considered racist, even wrongly, even for nothing, paralyzes reflection and prohibits discussion
In a few moments, the anti-racist dictatorship of emotion ignited the media and politics.
The sports federations, the French Football League, our sports minister praised the behavior of the 24 heroes.
The case was immediately heard and the Romanian referee condemned on the spot or rather on the ground.
It must be said that the fear of passing for racist, even wrongly, even for nothing, paralyzes reflection and prohibits discussion.
But once the neurotic emotion subsides, things seem much less obvious.
It would seem first of all that it is on the basis of a misinterpretation of arbitral words that the planetary psychodrama was born.
The latter, addressing the field referee, also Romanian, had declared: “
it's the 'nigga' (black in Romanian).
Go see and identify the
”.
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Immediately, and legitimately, the coach of the Turkish club Pierre Achille Wembo asked the referee: "
why did you say nigga?"
".
The explanation for the linguistic misunderstanding was already too late.
On this bad momentum, the substitute striker of the Turkish club, the miraculous Demba Ba called out to the referee by telling him by decree that we could not designate a black by his skin color without being racist.
Personally, if I do not know the name of the white that is in the middle of a group of blacks, I will refer to it by its color.
I even admit, all ashamed, that if I warn a stranger of tall stature in the midst of smaller children, I do not refrain, to designate him, to identify him by his size.
The accusation of racism by the designation of a black in chromatic quality is all the more bewildering since the present time is characterized precisely by this obsession
And yet I don't consider myself particularly anti white or anti grand.
The accusation of racism by the designation of a black in chromatic quality is all the more bewildering since the present time is characterized precisely by this racialist obsession with
new age
anti-racism
to insist on the color of people.
This is how the President of the Republic is animated by the strange project of attributing street names to deserving blacks as blacks and that our evening newspaper recently headlined on the attribution by the elected president Biden of ministerial morocco to a soldier: "
Biden chooses an African-American general to lead the Pentagon
(Le Monde, December 9).
In
The
Next Day's
World
devoted to psychodrama, the journalist Mustafa Kessous devoted a laudatory article to the famous Demba Ba entitled with pomp: "
Pierre Achille Wembo and Demba Ba have said no to racism
".
According to the journalist, Mr. Ba is even the paragon of anti-racism.
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Unfortunately, the reality, much more cruel, does not correspond to the hagiographic description of the evening newspaper: Mr. Ba is indeed an uncompromising support of this Ottoman sultan who transforms churches into mosques and especially the author of this electronic tweet: "
Welcome to the West, where white people think they are so superior that racism and debility become commonplace
”.
I am also as convinced that to designate a black without another epithet is not racist as I am convinced that the essentialization of white as racist is racist.
Look for the very current injustice.
Can I finally wonder about the particular legitimacy of players running under the Qatari flag to participate, knees on the ground, in the great anti-racist masses when we know how the emirate brings its dark-skinned workers to their knees?
Emotional anti-racism is the dictatorial racist sham of our neurotic age.