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Emmanuel Macron is alarmed by a "society which is racialized"

2021-07-01T08:41:13.239Z


The Head of State spoke in Elle magazine on several subjects: violence against women, abortion, the management of endometriosis and the croc top at school.


"

I see society gradually racialize

", alarmed Emmanuel Macron in an interview with

Elle

magazine

, estimating that "

intersectional logic fractures everything

" because it "

refers each to his identity

".

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I am on the universalist side.

I do not recognize myself in a fight that refers each to his identity or his particularism,

”adds the Head of State, referring to this approach which denounces the accumulation of discrimination when one is part of several minorities.

For him, “

social difficulties are not only structured by gender and skin color, but also by social inequality

”.

"

I could introduce you to young white men who are called Kévin, live in Amiens or Saint-Quentin, and who also have immense difficulties, for different reasons, in finding a job

", he replies to the director's testimony. Amandine Gay on the difficulties of being a woman and black.

Hostile to crop top at school

Referring to his record in terms of violence against women, the day after the UN forum for gender equality, Emmanuel Macron claims "

progress

" but recognizes that the anti-rapprochement bracelets, put in place since September 2020 against violent spouses are still too little used.

It is gradually increasing, even if 145 bracelets are installed, it is too little,

” he said.

He also expressed his opposition to a delay of up to 16 weeks for abortion, judging it in this case "

traumatic

". “

I am not in favor of it. Each year, 4000 to 5000 women go abroad to be able to do so, but it is above all the sign of a failure of our care

”, according to him.

He says he is once again hostile, like his Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, to the crop top at school.

At school, I tend to be

'

decent dress required

'

, for both girls and boys.

Anything that refers you to an identity, a desire to shock or to exist has no place in school.

We can take into account a teenager's part of fantasy and stick to certain principles.

"

Finally, it announces better management of endometriosis, a chronic disease linked to periods which affects one in ten women, with measures at the start of the school year.

Source: lefigaro

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