The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer reacted, this Thursday, September 16, to a smear campaign massively relayed on social networks.
Since the start of the school year, the hashtag # Anti2010, which brings together insults, mockery, even threats, has been targeting young sixth-grade college students born in 2010 on platforms such as TikTok, Twitter or Instagram.
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There is a growing movement which consists of badly welcoming 6th grade students and annoying students born in 2010. It is obviously completely stupid and contrary to our values
", hammered in a video posted on Twitter the minister .
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Remember when you were in the sixth grade yourself
," he told Internet users who spread the '
hashtag
'.
You were counting on everyone's goodwill.
So be benevolent in your turn, be vectors of fraternities, be ambassadors against harassment.
Say to all students born in 2010, to all 6th grade students: welcome to college.
"
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The children of 2010 have become a target
"
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Nobody likes 2010s
", "
brigade against 2010s
", "
out of my sight the 2010s
" ... If most of the sentences found here and there on social networks may seem childish, some are more worrying , calling for “
posting
” (filming then uploading) or violating these young students. Several references specific to this young generation are brandished by the stalkers: the latter notably accuse 10-year-old children of having toxic behavior on the Fortnite video game, a real cardboard among young people.
Faced with this growing phenomenon, the Federation of Student Parents' Councils (FCPE) was alarmed in a press release entitled "
The children of 2010 have become a target: the FCPE asks the government to act in emergency!
". "
If the facts were marginal since November 2020, the phenomenon has largely exceeded the playgrounds or altercations at the exit of establishments, where educational staff can still identify and act
", we can read.
With our colleagues from BFMTV, Hugo Martinez, president of the Hugo association!
who fights against bullying at school, fears an "
escalation of hatred
", pointing to a movement "
revealing our society
".
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It's very serious, we come to discriminate against someone based on their year of birth.
Where are we going?
He asks himself.
In addition to the publication of Jean-Michel Blanquer's video, the Ministry of National Education recalled on Twitter the numbers of two platforms set up to fight against harassment (3020) and cyberstalking (3018).
