Pierre Liscia is spokesperson for Libres !, a former elected official in Paris and author of
La Honte
(Albin Michel).
It only took one sentence to ruin all the efforts undertaken not without difficulty by a dying PS to restore a semblance of republican respectability after years of ambiguities, compromises and cowardice.
Asked to react to the controversy aroused by the organization of single-sex meetings within UNEF, Audrey Pulvar drops the mask.
"
I prefer meetings" reserved for "[blacks] than meetings" forbidden to "[white people]
", before letting go that if a woman or a white man (sic) came to participate, he would be asked to "
be silent
”.
If the rhetoric is absurd - promoting a segregationist model while hoping to set itself up as a champion of anti-racism - it above all reveals a much deeper evil that crosses the left and of which Audrey Pulvar has become the revealer.
We must listen to the comments made by the PS candidate in the regional elections in Île-de-France.
They are thoughtful, measured and substantiated.
They are neither a slippage nor an awkwardness, but the fruit of several years of a deadly ideological journey which has led a whole part of the left to abandon republican universalism and the principle of secularism which are nevertheless at the heart of her political DNA to defend today what she hated yesterday: communitarianism, differentialism and separatism.
Audrey Pulvar essentializes individuals according to their skin color and thus tramples on any republican universalism.
As the popular and workers' electorate turned to the right and the extreme right, the left began to search for a new proletariat and saw communitarianism as a form of new class struggle, erecting the "
racialized
" as a new Zolian worker.
Slipping from universal anti-racism to indigenous racialism, it has allowed itself to be corrupted by theories and concepts which have nevertheless always been foreign to it: the culture of excuse and perpetual repentance, decolonialism or the concept of "
whiteness
".
», Even if it means showing a certain complacency with regard to an identity withdrawal which uses anti-racism as an alibi.
A slow drift that drove the Solferinian left to death.
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Let it be said, no one claims to deny people who are victims of discrimination the right to meet and discuss it.
What is shocking is to consider this right only in terms of the color of their skin and not according to their life experience and the suffering they may have endured.
In saying this, Audrey Pulvar essentializes individuals based on their skin color, but also on their religion or sexual orientation, thus trampling on any republican universalism.
In the Republic, the degree of pigmentation of the skin of a man or a woman will never be a criterion for the attribution of a right or a freedom - that of participating or not in a meeting such as that of Express.
Those who say otherwise like Audrey Pulvar wallow in the same ignominy as the racists they claim to be fighting.
The leader of the PS in Île-de-France alone embodies the political and moral shipwreck of this left which now has as its compass the identity and racial assignment and for which there are racisms more acceptable than others.
It is unbearable and it places de facto the candidate of the PS and her supporters on the fringes of the republican field.
Even more deafening than all these outbursts of indignation, the silence of the PS leadership on the subject, and especially that of Anne Hidalgo.
Unsurprisingly, the outcry was immediate and national outrage.
“
In my region, no inhabitant should be discriminated against for the color of their skin.
There is no such thing as acceptable racism,
”Valérie Pécresse immediately reacted in a tweet in the form of a salutary warning to all those who would be tempted to play the division game to grab a few votes.
The President of the Region therefore appears to be the last republican dyke in the face of pressure from identity and community members.
LFI and EELV immediately came to the aid of the socialist candidate but the macronie seems more divided.
If some have associated themselves with the condemnations of the right, others like Christophe Castaner, the current leader of the majority in the National Assembly and former Minister of the Interior, on the contrary gave their support to Audrey Pulvar.
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Even more deafening than all these outbursts of indignation, the silence of the PS leadership on the subject, and especially that of Anne Hidalgo who made the candidacy of her deputy to the City of Paris a crucial step in her strategy presidential election for 2022. Not only does this episode reveal how much the left is entangled in its alliance of the worst with its ever more ideologized and radicalized fringe, but above all it has brought to light the rift between, on the one hand, those who assume to be uncompromising when it comes to respecting the principles on which our republican pact is based and, on the other hand, those which capitulate out of electoral opportunism.
In the matter, cowardice has no party.
Finally, for the Mayor of Paris, the stakes are high.
In her race for the presidential election, she even agreed to antagonize part of her majority by asserting that environmentalists had "
a subject with the Republic."
"
However, Anne Hidalgo has not always been very clear in this regard.
On the contrary, she is one of those who for years have maintained and still maintain obvious ambiguities with communitarianism.
Anne Hidalgo struggles to make people forget that she continues to pay public subsidies to pharmacies that do not hide their proximity to the indigenous movement and the CCIF.
Behind the speeches and postures, Anne Hidalgo struggles to make people forget that she continues to pay public subsidies to pharmacies that do not conceal their proximity to the indigenist movement and the CCIF such as FASTI or ACORT, associations which by their positions maintain the detestation of France by accusing it of state racism directed against Muslims and of carrying out a discriminatory and violent colonial policy overseas, which fuels the hatred of the police by denouncing “
round-ups
” of migrants and who take up the victim rhetoric of Islamist terrorists aimed at blaming France for the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks.
Who remembers that in 2017, Anne Hidalgo had a more than timid reaction to the holding of the Nyansapo festival, the programming of which included workshops "
forbidden to whites
" despite the exit of Alain Jakubowicz, then president of the Licra, Who was offended that such a demonstration could be held in premises belonging to the municipality?
Faced with the scale of the controversy, she finally let it be known that she reserved the right to sue her organizers.
A facade indignation since the festival was well and truly held and no complaint from the City was filed.
“
Basically, there is only one race: humanity
” said Jean Jaurès, founding father of the French left.
This weekend, his heirs - Audrey Pulvar in the lead - turned their backs on him as much as on the Republic.
Should we just remind them that intellectual and moral bankruptcies always precede political shipwrecks?
