"
Wokism
", the Republic's new challenge?
Jean-Michel Blanquer considers that it is one of the main subjects of reflection.
The day after the creation of a think tank to defend “
secularism
” and “the
values of the Republic
”, the Minister of National Education points out in an interview with
Le Monde
the danger of this “
ideology
” resulting from American universities which "
Fragments and divides
" society.
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"
I am not obsessed with wokism
", he relativizes, "I
am simply against the idea that our youth are offered to approach social life by entering into a competition of resentments
".
According to the minister, the American ideology, "
at the antipodes
" of republican values, has already "
conquered certain political, media and academic circles
", by "
proposing victim software to the detriment of the democratic foundations of our society
".
"
France and its youth must escape
" this doctrine "
which fragments and divides
", he warns. "
In the US, this ideology could lead, in reaction, Donald Trump in power
"
,
he argued. An allusion to the potential presidential candidacy of Eric Zemmour, often compared to the former American president? Still, wokism will be one of the subjects of reflection of the new Laboratory of the Republic, which "
will be intended to be useful during the presidential campaign
", does not fail to specify Jean-Michel Blanquer.
On social networks, reactions are already well under way: “
After Islamo-leftism, wokism?
"React some Internet users, referring to the controversy triggered by the Minister of National Education last February, when he declared that"
Islamo-leftism
"is an"
unmistakable social fact
"that must be"
looked at opposite
”.
Three times more attacks on secularism since the death of Samuel Paty
Asked about his conception of secularism, the minister also criticized those who question this concept.
"
There may be a radical militancy among some to strike down
" on the Republican vision of secularism
,
"
but it is the fact of an active minority which has a political agenda
,
"
he says
.
Last February, rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon notably criticized the law against separatism in the Assembly, asserting that secularism should not be a "
state atheism
" imposed by force.
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"
Since the barbaric assassination of Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020, attacks on secularism at school have “
increased
”, confides the minister. They would amount to "
a thousand (...) returns in a month
", ie three times more than in normal times. Faced with this upsurge, Jean-Michel Blanquer encourages "
no longer to put the problems under the carpet
" and "to
provide concrete support
" to the teachers facing the difficulty of tackling this topic.
A few days before the first anniversary of the assassination of the history and geography professor, the minister considers that “the
best tribute that we can pay to Samuel Paty is not to retreat a centimeter on (the) es values
”of the Republic.
Recognizing, however, a "
necessary clarity
" on the definition given to them.