Unlike "iel", it did not have the honors of the Le Robert dictionary: "wokism" is nevertheless omnipresent in the media.
This term is derived from the woke movement, born in the United States, which designates a new militant generation hypersensitive to discrimination, follower of the theory of race and gender and practicing a cultural heritage and historical purge in the name of ideology.
In France, it is not claimed by any political figure, apart from the ex-sarkozyste Rama Yade and the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau, whom we will agree that they weigh little in the French political spectrum.
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So, are we doing too much with wokism?
It's a little music in the air.
Editorialists and left-wing intellectuals hammer it on the airwaves: the phenomenon does not exist, it is a reactionary fantasy.
Thus, for Thomas Legrand, of
France Inter
, the battle around the “sky” illustrates
“the fascination of conservative circles for the all-out cultural struggle”.
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