Pierre-André Taguieff admits to having been crossed by
"a moment of amazement"
.
Alain Finkielkraut does not hide either that his surprise was great at the announcement of the name of Pap Ndiaye at the Ministry of National Education.
If the appointment of this academic, specialist in the question of minorities, divides the political class, it also arouses a lively debate within the intellectual world.
The defenders of the secular and republican school see in this appointment, and in the eviction of Jean-Michel Blanquer, a snub.
They fear that Pap Ndiaye will bring decolonial thinking into National Education.
Proponents of multiculturalism hope, on the contrary, that the new minister, who claims his anti-racist commitment, will change a universalist model which they consider obsolete and hypocritical.
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