Ran Halévi: "Scenes from the Reign of Virtue at the New York Times"

Ran Halévi is research director at the CNRS and Professor at the Raymond Aron Center for Political Research.

In Minneapolis the other day, justice was served in strict accordance with the law.

The policeman who had caused the death of George Floyd was able to explain his act, proven by unbearable images and overwhelming testimonies.

After ten hours of deliberation, jurors found him guilty of murder, manslaughter and violence resulting in death.

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But his trial was not taking place in the sole precinct of the court.

He had been educated for months before the court of opinion, which does not care about legal rigors and intends to exercise its jurisdiction as it sees fit.

Here, the great culprit, behind the murderer, was a "systemic racism", an indefinable figure whose outlines and extent were freely drawn by whistleblowers.

Joe Biden himself did not hesitate to attribute to the

"system"

- of which he has been the pillar for half a century - the indirect cause.

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