A debate organized this Thursday by the small left-wing party Génération.s, stumbled on the question of
"racialism"
, a concept refused by Senator Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, others like LFI deputy Danièle Obono defending the right for
" racialized people ”
to
“ self-organize ”
.
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“Racialism is totally opposed to the concept of republican universalism
,
”
assured Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, elected from the Republican and Socialist Left.
"I find the rise of 'racialism' on the stage dangerous and worrying"
and
"when I hear the word 'racialized', or that our republic is 'racist', it gets on my nerves"
.
"There is racism"
in France
"but the fundamentals of our Republic are not"
, she added.
"The law prohibiting the veil at school"
or
"the wearing of the full veil"
in public space
"are progressive laws which allow emancipation within the framework of our secularism"
.
According to Danièle Obono,
“Marie-Noëlle Lienemann's intervention sums up the amalgamation and incomprehension” around this debate.
"Racialized people are targeted,"
she added, defending the right of
"those concerned to self-organize"
to defend themselves.
Debate on Islamism and Immigration
Génération.s, founded by the former PS presidential candidate Benoît Hamon and now in the environmental movement, organized this videoconference debate on the theme of the Republic a little before the one that opposed in the evening on France 2 Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, and Marine Le Pen, President of the RN, on Islamism and immigration.
Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, denounced during the debate
“massive and systematic discrimination against blacks and Arabs”
.
"The Republic is failing with regard to its promise"
, he said, while
"the environmental project does not forget anyone by the wayside"
.
PS Senator Laurence Rossignol was to participate in the debate but ultimately declined due to the participation of Ali Rabeh, Génération.s mayor of Trappes, in conflict with a professor of philosophy, Didier Lemaire, who denounces
"the progression of a hold ever stronger community ”
on its students, as well as
“ the absence of a state strategy to defeat Islamism ”
.
"The mayor of Trappes is at the heart of a controversy"
,
"the debate is a trap"
and
"I do not want to lend my support
,
"
Laurence Rossignol told AFP.
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann also expressed her
“unease”
on this subject.