Laurence Taillade is an essayist, author of
L'urgence laïque
(Ed.Michalon) and
Being a woman in 2020
(Ed. Michalon) and co-author of
Une France Submit.
Stéphane Troussel is launching a petition in the direction of the owners of the Villepinte exhibition center, which will host the Éric Zemmour meeting on December 5, to ask them to withdraw from the room.
That an elected department president lends himself to this type of guignolerie is appalling in several ways.
I have no particular sympathy for Eric Zemmour and regret his decision to leave his role as a polemicist, which he fulfilled rather well.
Nonetheless, I have a deep attachment for freedom of expression and for democracy.
However, by acting in this way, Mr. Troussel, who is the depositary of the republican principles, of which the freedoms of expression, of thinking, of undertaking are the pillars, abandons himself to deny them.
The use of the petition is a symbolic act and highlights the powerlessness of an elected representative to demand censorship that has no legal basis.
Laurence Taillade
It is understandable that this elected socialist, a dinosaur who resisted, like some of his category, by demagoguery and patronage, thus attack the arrival of Eric Zemmour in his stronghold. He saw it, in his own words, as a "revolting symbol". Speaking in inclusive writing on his Twitter thread, defending tooth and nail the wearing of the veil during school trips, considering that his department is "multicultural", giving credit to the permanent victimization conveyed by anti-racist associations, including the PIR and the CCIF were the project managers, relaying the concept of Islamophobia, it could not be otherwise.
Except that Mr. Troussel is not an association activist but a president of a local authority and that we are entitled to expect a little more dignity from him. It is not a question here of calling into question the feeling of "
6 out of 10 people (who) claim to be victims of discrimination
”, If we are to believe his words, but to recall that he was strongly influenced by these allegedly anti-racist movements which intentionally exploited any form of frustration to give it a racial explanation. The concept of Islamophobia, carried by pharmacies close to the Muslim Brotherhood, some of which are now dissolved, relayed by the racialist galaxy which has made it a business, has largely contributed to creating this exacerbated feeling to make it a form of reality, in a department with a large immigrant population, poorly integrated and some areas of which have yielded to the sirens of communitarianism, hatred of France, its values and the refusal of assimilation to all that our country represents. Yes, the presence of Eric Zemmour there is a surprise for Stéphane Troussel but no,it is not negotiable.
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The use of the petition, for its part, is a symbolic act and highlights the powerlessness of an elected representative to demand censorship that has no legal basis.
Mr. Troussel will have to accept that Seine-Saint-Denis is not a stronghold but a French department.
Our country was founded on the will of the people to seize their sovereignty. It is marked by the violence with which the Republic was born. The Republic holds onto this democracy where the people exercise power. However, there is no democracy without debate, without the freedom to express one's ideas, to confront them, to debate, within the framework of freedom of expression. Éric Zemmour is a candidate for the presidential election. Will he appear before the polls without ever expressing himself in direct contact with the people and without being able to present his ideas, a program?
The left had accustomed us to this censorship of which it is becoming customary. What is distressing is that it should, on the contrary, be the guarantor of a democratic exercise expressed to its fullest. It seems that short of arguments, short of reflection, the PS has completely distanced itself from its ability to respond to the problems posed by this candidate and which are the basis of his popularity. These self-righteous people, dismissing from any discussion the legitimate concerns of the French about immigration, the rise of communitarianism, Islamism, the daily questioning of our values, of our culture, disdain those they claim to represent. by mandate and revel in the inbreeding of ideas. Worse, they degrade the Nation, bearer of a common destiny, a historical base anda social pact to which everyone decides to adhere freely. The citizen, when it comes to expressing himself in a ballot box, will always go to the one who seems to him to best understand his daily life. It is clear that this left is very far from it, that it has deliberately chosen to distance itself from it and to flee the confrontation.
Stéphane Troussel indulges in his camp's favorite exercise: whining about the feelings of screaming minorities and ignoring the reality of the silent masses.
Laurence Taillade
On the contrary, disdaining the force of rationality, these policies unworthy of the Republic of which they are engorged wallow in the emotional to better manipulate their electoral targets.
Forgotten the principle of Equality which forces them to ignore distinctions of skin color or religion, oblivion secularism which forces them to exercise at a distance from religion.
Stéphane Troussel indulges in his camp's favorite exercise: whining about the feelings of screaming minorities and ignoring the reality of the silent masses.
To do so is to give the gift of victim status to Eric Zemmour, it is to raise him to the level of a credible political opponent. As well as his invitation to TF1, at 8 p.m. this week, raises questions in the treatment of the interview. The journalist's job would have been to confront him with the problems of our society and throw him into the void of his program concerning the economic difficulties of the French, which is not limited to immigration, even if this question must play a major role in the presidential election, so much our country suffered from neglecting it.
Because, finally, if Éric Zemmour takes such a place, it is good that for too long the other political parties have left him and still leave him, treating with disdain, in the best case, referring to fascism, for others, anyone who dares to confront the reality of the daily life of our compatriots.
Power would drive you mad.
Let us be careful that the fools do not take power.
We would be collectively responsible for having neglected reason for too long.
