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Mathieu Bock-Coté: "Deconstructionism, the first response"

2022-01-07T19:08:28.718Z


Banalization of concepts such as systemic racism and white privilege, fireworks, destruction of statues, inclusive writing ... It is a new cultural revolution that is bulldozing the West at high speed.


The colloquium, opened yesterday, and which continues today, at the Sorbonne, devoted to deconstructionism and in which I had the honor to participate, represents a first attempt in the intellectual milieu, to respond to what it is agreed to call it the woke revolution, which took French society by surprise for just over a year.

We remember the perplexity, on the left, and even on the right, in front of its first manifestations.

We wanted to see there an American madness that would never break through in France.

Few are those today who persist in such lightness.

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Return of race, normalization of indigenism, trivialization of concepts like systemic racism and white privilege, negation of masculine and feminine in the name of gender fluidity, autodafés, destruction of statues, inclusive writing, culture of cancellation: it is a new cultural revolution which bulldoze at great speed the West.

It is therefore a question of understanding this historic moment.

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Source: lefigaro

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