The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Regional in Ile-de-France: Julien Bayou's “blunder” aimed at “boomers”

2021-04-26T19:55:21.841Z


EELV's regional candidate in Ile-de-France sparked a controversy with a visual campaign implying that people p


There is “Amish” ecology or communitarian ecology, would there now be “anti-old” ecology?

Blunder, slip of the tongue or provocation, Julien Bayou's communication campaign for regional in Ile-de-France risks leaving traces.

On Friday, the leader of Europe Ecology The Greens shared, on Facebook, a poster calling on voters not registered on the electoral lists, i.e. 1.5 million people in the region that Bayou is seeking to conquer, to mobilize and participate in the next ballot.

To encourage them, the ecologist publishes a dozen vignettes calling for voting, one against the far right, "the fascists" can we read on the visual, the others against the hunters or against Gerald Darmanin and his law "global security" and, finally, against the ... "boomers" illustrated by a photo of an old lady.

The two posters posted on social networks by Julien Bayou to encourage the French to vote during the next regional ones.

DR

Since then, this last banderilla ignites the canvas. And Julien Bayou had beautiful backpedal and immediately remove the message by "which the scandal happened", nothing helps. “Dear Julien Bayou, to negate (sic) a category of fellow citizens for what they are is discrimination. Ageism is unfortunately the most banal and the most accepted discrimination, this poster is an example. Like all discrimination, it is based on stereotypes ”, immediately tweeted the socialist Jérôme Guedj, departmental councilor for Essonne, and one of the most fervent supporters of Audrey Pulvar, Bayou's opponent for the next regional elections. But "the case" has gone beyond the borders of Ile-de-France. “Election periods do not necessarily make people smart,” lamented Michèle Delaunay,former Minister for the Elderly and Autonomy, under François Hollande.

A technical bug

This is not the first time that environmentalists have targeted “boomers” since this term has been popularized, since 2019, through the hashtag #OKboomer, a movement targeting a generation in power that would leave behind a polluted and unequal planet.

A few rare green figures have thus stepped up to the plate to defend Julien Bayou.

"Time does not matter, boomer is less a question of age than a state of mind," tweeted Eva Joly, the Greens' presidential candidate in 2012.

Ok boomer.


Dear Jérôme, time doesn't matter, boomer is less a question of age than a state of mind.

- Eva Joly (@EvaJoly) April 23, 2021

“OK Boomer!

can be summed up as: your generation has experienced full employment, it has consumed without limits, has not taken care of the planet and you still want to explain to us what we have to do?

You have failed.

Let us manage now ”, reacted, for his part, Sergio Coronado, former EELV deputy before joining La France Insoumise.

In Julien Bayou's entourage, we prefer to put things into perspective by highlighting a technical bug.

"We had planned two bursts of messages," explains Arnaud Champremier-Trigano, director of the Faubourg agency, in charge of the communication of his campaign.

The first was aimed at

scarecrows

, like the far right, and the second wanted to emphasize the generational divide.

But the two waves collided.

"

No doubt, the young vote brought the Greens to the last Europeans and municipal elections. However, it is not certain that targeting “seniors” is a winning bet for environmentalists. In Germany, the Green, Winfried Kretschmann, has just been reelected, at 71, for a third term at the head of Baden-Württemberg. Moreover, neither the MEP Yannick Jadot nor Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, both likely candidates for the presidential election of 2022, has come to the aid of the leader of EELV ...

Source: leparis

All news articles on 2021-04-26

You may like

News/Politics 2024-03-17T06:16:27.272Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-27T16:45:54.081Z
News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.