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Single-sex meetings: Audrey Pulvar explains her controversial remarks

2021-03-30T16:53:00.286Z


Criticized for having judged that we can ask the Whites "to be silent" during a single-sex meeting, the candidate of the PS in Île-de-France is justified in a forum in the World. She evokes a distortion of her words and castigates "network polemicists".


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As the third wave rises, caregivers, teachers, staff (...) keep alerting us to the gravity of the situation and their own state of physical and mental exhaustion ... However, a subject, only one, has occupied minds ever since. 72 hours.

»Guest on BFMTV on Saturday March 27, Audrey Pulvar aroused strong reactions within the political class.

Asked about the "single-sex" meetings organized by the UNEF, the candidate for the regional elections of Ile-de-France refused to such devices, while declaring that one can ask "

a white woman

"Or"

to a white man

"to"

be silent

".

In a column published in Le Monde, the elected representative supported by Anne Hidalgo denounces a controversy created by "

the opportunistic and destructive voices of the right and the far right

. ”

To read also: Regional: Olivier Faure ensures that Audrey Pulvar will "go back" on his expression "unhappy"

"

I never said I wanted to silence part of the population, for any reason whatsoever, and even less for their skin color

," writes Audrey Pulvar.

Criticized by part of the political class for her comments, she regrets that they have been distorted.

By a spectacular turnaround, where I refused the principle of completely closed meetings (…), the right and the extreme right, complacently relayed, made believe and repeated at will, that I wanted to prevent speech.

"

“Some have seen it as a form of summons to silence.

Wrongly"

If the candidate affirms that "

such a sentence

" would not have "

even crossed her mind

", she also specifies her position: "

I can conceive, hear, the need for people discriminated against, because of their sex, to their skin color, their orientation or their sexual identity, to meet 'among themselves' to exchange.

»While maintaining his words:«

I used the verb «to be silent

»

, because that is generally what we do, when we really want to listen to the other, before then speaking… (… ) Some saw it as a form of summons to silence.

Wrongly,

”she explains.

"To those whom my formulation may have offended, by giving them the feeling that I wanted to exclude them from the start, I mean here that such was neither my words nor my intention",

she continues.

To read also: Pierre Liscia: "Audrey Pulvar is the revealer of the political and moral shipwreck of a part of the left"

Pointing out "

the polemicists of networks

" and "

the devourers of light of studios never satisfied to be seen

", the candidate also defends herself of the accusations of racism which were made to her.

She thus recalls having repeated on several occasions "

that the struggles for emancipation are waged together

", while attaching her position to the regional elections which are looming.

At the head of Île-de-France in common, a union movement of the civic and committed environmentalist left, I bring (…) an alternative to the policy led by the right of Valérie Pécresse.

"Although the sequence has divided the left, Audrey Pulvar calls in her gallery for a movement"

resolutely left, proudly left, exclusively left.

"

Source: lefigaro

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