He chose the national office to - finally - express himself.
This Tuesday evening, Olivier Faure, number one of the PS, clarified the position of his party on the Unef affair and the establishment by the student union of “non-mixed racialized” groups.
It is true that many members of this governing body - like Senator Rachid Temal - were impatient.
"The life of the Nation does not revolve around the positions of the UNEF, which has not had an organic link with the Socialist Party for a long time," explains Olivier Faure.
Basically, the national secretary was very clear.
“There is no ambiguity in the PS.
I have said it over and over since taking office.
Our DNA is republican, universalist and secular.
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Why then intervene so late, unlike the supporters of the UNEF who, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, very quickly came out of the woods?
“During the questioning of teachers in Grenoble, I intervened because the ideological confusion of this organization could have serious consequences in the context after the assassination of Samuel Paty.
To deliver the teachers to vindictiveness for their positions, it was to place them in the position of targets of fanatical Islamists.
What are we talking about now?
Single-sex meetings to discuss racism.
The subject has changed in nature, ”explains Olivier Faure.
"A way to free the word of victims"
No question, however, for the socialist leader, to condemn everything in the approach of the UNEF.
“Meetings of this type are originally a way of freeing the voices of victims who share a painful experience,” believes Olivier Faure.
What must be condemned without blinking are the excesses that can accompany these meetings when they feed a secessionist project.
The yellow line is crossed when single sex leads to think that the only legitimate people to talk about racism are its victims.
It is crossed when everyone is locked in a box and essentialized.
It is crossed when universalism is condemned and presented as an ideology of domination for the white West.
Unfortunately, some on the left, and therefore at the UNEF, cross this yellow line and reveal the values to which they are the heirs.
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Neither is there any question of following in the footsteps of the criticisms voiced by certain members of the government.
“Nothing to do with
the fascism
that Minister Blanquer evokes in a totally polemical way, tackles Olivier Faure.
It is time to come back to the basic subjects, that of the condition of survival of students, the discrimination that some suffer, the sexism that has not said its last word, and not to be smothered by those who would like to hide their carelessness. by creating permanent subjects of diversion.
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