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"The attacks against the National Education for Secularism campaign are astounded by their violence"

2021-09-07T09:22:56.542Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The Honorary State Councilor considers absurd the controversy aroused by the posters to promote secularism in schools.


Jean-Éric Schoettl was Secretary General of the Constitutional Council from 1997 to 2007.

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Into which abysses of gloom (or of self-hatred) has fallen a part of French society to arouse so much anger a poster campaign as humanist, amiable and republican as that organized by the Ministry of National Education, in back to school, to promote secularism at school?

The word "assimilation" has become for many teachers' unions and left-wing personalities (and not just for decolonial small groups) downright obscene.

Jean-Eric Schoettl

The main and most virulent admonitions come (alas!) From unions of teachers and personalities on the left.

They are amazed by their violence and their absurdity.

One must have been seriously contaminated by the “woke” conspiracy to see in the eight posters making up this campaign an attempt at neocolonial indoctrination.

Secularism, when it is translated - as it is its essence - by a requirement of religious neutrality would be, to hear the detractors of Jean-Michel Blanquer, a ruse of xenophobia.

As for the word "assimilation", it has become for

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Source: lefigaro

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