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Jean-Michel Blanquer and Jean-François Roberge: “In France as in Quebec, let's save the school from“ cancel culture ””

2021-10-21T17:53:21.488Z


TRIBUNE - For the French and Quebec education ministers, it is crucial that the school be preserved from activists who make a permanent indictment against the Western heritage within the school institution, resort to intimidation and flout freedoms.


As several media outlets around the world recently recalled, children's books, notably

Tintin

and

Lucky Luke

, were burned and then buried in Ontario, Canada, during a

"flame purification ceremony"

because that they conveyed a perceived negative and erroneous image of indigenous peoples.

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For too long, we have witnessed the abuses linked to the “cancel culture”, an ideology and methods directly imported from certain American university campuses and which are far removed from the values ​​of respect and tolerance on which are based. are the foundation of our democracies.

The banning of personalities, shows and conferences, harassment on social media, censorship, the subjugation of science to ideology, the erasure of history up to the burning of books constitute as many assaults on freedom of expression and civic sense, which take us back to the most obscurantist times of our

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Source: lefigaro

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