Pascal Bruckner is a writer.
He recently published
An Almost Perfect Guilty, the Construction of the White Scapegoat
(Grasset).
LE FIGARO.
- In an interview with
L'Express
, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, admitted the existence of a
“white privilege”
, which is
“a fact”
.
What does this projection inspire in you?
Is white privilege a
"fact"
?
Pascal BRUCKNER.
-
"White privilege" is a concept imported from the Anglo-Saxon world and which applies to segregationist societies like South Africa or the United States of America before the civil rights revolution.
It assumes a dominant minority which denies their rights to other citizens in the name of alleged ethnic or racial superiority.
But in Europe, mostly light-skinned, this notion is
"dangerous nonsense"
, as the socialist Corinne Narassiguin, herself of Reunion origin, put it, because it camouflages economic or social relations.
May Macron be a privileged son of a good family,
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