The president of the UNEF, Mélanie Luce, had probably not imagined that her defense of "single-sex meetings", on the air in Europe 1, Wednesday, would cause such controversy.
And for good reason: the organization of meetings, workshops, forums ... reserved for certain groups which consider themselves victims of discrimination is in fact an old and quite usual practice within the militant left, in particular among the student unions.
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It is part of a broader concept, theorized in the United States at the time of the conquest of civil rights and taken up by LGBT activists and those of the women's liberation movement: the
"safe space"
, in French " safe space ”, or“ positive space ”.
The principle?
When a group of individuals considers itself the victim of
"systemic"
discrimination
suffered because of one of its identity characteristics (sex, skin color, sexual orientation, etc.), it groups together in such spaces so that its members can share about
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