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The slow radicalization of UNEF, a declining student union

2021-03-21T20:01:36.586Z


STORY - Criticism is mounting against the union, which assumes the organization of single-sex meetings prohibited to whites. For Jean-Michel Blanquer, these practices lead to “fascism”.


Fifteen days after the placarding of the names of two teacher-researchers, accused of Islamophobia, on the walls of the IEP in Grenoble, the controversy around the UNEF does not abate.

The invitation of Mélanie Luce, the president of the student union, on March 17, on Europe 1, revived her.

Pushed to its limits, the 24-year-old law student admitted that her union was organizing

"racialized single-sex"

meetings

and claimed that Islamophobia was killing in France.

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Single-sex" meetings, a practice that is becoming commonplace

Torrent of scandalized reactions on social networks, indignation of politicians calling for firmness.

"People who claim to be progressive and who distinguish people based on their skin lead us to things that resemble fascism,"

said Jean-Michel Blanquer, Friday.

The minister said he was thinking about

“legislative changes”

to make

“illegal”

the fact of organizing

“actually racist meetings”.

Voices were raised, on the right and within the majority, to denounce a form of

“separatism”.

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Source: lefigaro

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