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The FigaroVox week - "The new clothes of political correctness"

2020-12-18T22:07:36.565Z


Under the pretext of fighting against discrimination, the American and French left arrogate to themselves the right to sort out books, teachers and intellectuals. Every Saturday, find the FigaroVox selection: decryption, points of view and controversies.


Dear subscribers,

Do you know the “woke” movement?

This word, which comes from American slang, means "awake".

It designates a new American left hyper sensitive to discrimination and to the identity question, which practices censorship in the name of the right not to be offended.

Bret Weinstein

, a former professor of biology at Evergreen University, paid the price.

In 2017, he had to resign after opposing a “day off” banned for whites on his campus.

For the first time in a French media, he recounts the cabal of which he was a victim.

And, with great acuity of analysis, he warns of the dangers of this "dictatorship in the making".

Wall Street Journal

reporter

Abigail Shrier

was also targeted.

His book

Irreversible Damage

, an edifying investigation into the fashion phenomenon around transgender children in the United States, is the subject of an attempted censorship.

She gave us an exclusive interview where she tells about a process of social contagion

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Source: lefigaro

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