Jean Martinez is a lawyer at the Marseille bar.
Jurists are protected from certain diseases which affect the life of ideas.
Thus, the practice of contradiction, inherent in university debate and in judicial life, opposes an antibody to the culture of cancellation (“
cancel culture
”) or to digital lynching.
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There is another disease which consists in subverting language to make it the servant of a cause.
Ceasing to be a common good, language becomes guilty of its static nature, and its reform is designated as the indispensable movement towards progress.
We are used to seeing language manipulated for rhetorical purposes.
Thus, the replacement of precise terms by euphemistic formulas makes it possible to make accept realities considered worrying or unpleasant by a part of the population.
The strike embarrasses the users, but the social movement embellishes the strikers.
The illegals oppose public order, but the migrants arouse charity.
In an accentuation of this rhetorical phenomenon, various movements are now equipped with linguistic tools.
LGBT people like to call “
cisgender
” who is not transgender.
The natives declare "
racialized
" people who are black or of North African origin.
And part of the feminist current promotes inclusive writing.
"Should the language spoken by one and the other (other or others?) Obey the ukase (ukase?) Of politically correct theoreticians ?
"
Laurent Joffrin
In a deservingly critical article (Liberation, November 14, 2017), Laurent Joffrin proposed a dive into inclusiveness: "
Let us be 'inclusive' for a moment until the 'midpoint': is it up to the activists to decree language?
Should the language spoken by one and the other (other or others?) Obey the ukase (ukase?) Of politically correct theorists? , champion leaders among the self-righteous.
Do we not risk the emergence of a gibberish worthy of the precious ridiculous, combated by such caricatures of the old barbon reactionaries?
"
It is necessary to be struck with intellectual occlusion not to detect in this grotesque mush the work of an activism which tramples everything in the name of its cause.
Everything: the beauty of the language, its accessibility, its effectiveness.
Aware of the capital importance of a clear language for the proper application of laws, and heirs to a certain discipline of writing and speech, jurists should shy away from this undertaking.
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Yet it is an illustrious house, Éditions Lamy, which dabbles in inclusive writing with an advertising campaign asking lawyers if they are
“ready”
for digitalization.
Lamy does not go so far as to talk about an offer dedicated
to lawyers
.
It is a fact that inclusive writing slows down reading when it does not scare the reader away.
It is therefore a question of making gringue to the "
inclusivists
" while keeping the direction of marketing.
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The significance of this transgression should not be underestimated.
Language is the first glue in collective life.
Practicing a clear language is the first condition for everyone's inclusion.
Those involved in the world of culture have a very special responsibility in this regard.
Mr. Chemla, do not participate in the betrayal of the clerics.
Drop this campaign.
