Goldnadel: "The privileges of the far left"

Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist.

Every week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox.

I am one of those who think that we live in a dangerously absurd world.

I have long pointed to the responsibility of the political, media and societal extreme left.

Wokism, the latest avatar of leftism, is about to transform this world into a psychiatric hospital.

One of the reasons for the power of the far left is based on the broad moral and often therefore judicial impunity it enjoys.

I intend to argue in this column that there is far-left privilege.

Or to give a chromatic image, I affirm that if there is no more white privilege, there is indeed a red privilege.

A few examples will allow me, in several themes, to consolidate my thesis.

In the beginning was the verb: in the lexical domain, the privilege is obvious and I often underline it: If the extreme right is constantly called by its name - including to discredit people who do not recognize themselves in this not very decorative name, the extreme left is used in a very rare way to locate a group or a political personality.

Another area in which the red privilege is severely rife: the historical perspective.

The cause - or the consequence - lies mainly in the fact that there was no Nuremberg of communism.

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This is how the media constantly identify the Rassemblement national and Reconquête with the far right, but are careful not to place the Insoumis on the far left.

They are positioned on the left, even more boldly

.

Thus, by a strange physical phenomenon, the political stick has only one end and it is a great privilege not to be extremized.

Consequently and by the same spirit of asymmetrical benevolence, we see media privilege.

This is how, for example, at the far right of the political planisphere, Éric Zemmour is not invited - except during an election campaign - by public service broadcasting, which is nevertheless subject to an obligation of neutrality.

This tacit attitude was unfortunately confessed on June 12, 2022 by journalist Gilles Bronstein

.

(

, by Michel Onfray, p136).

On the other hand, Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for the New Anti-Capitalist Party, was again invited on March 5 on France Inter during a prime time program, “Political Questions”.

Mr. Besancenot is however no less extremist than Mr. Zemmour.

But he is on the left.

Another area in which the red privilege is severely rife: the historical perspective.

The cause - or the consequence - lies mainly in the fact that there was no Nuremberg of communism.

Consequently, few French people know that the newspaper

published in June 1940, with the agreement of the Kommandantur, an edition welcoming the German occupation soldiers.

Few know either that the PCF had organized actions to sabotage French armament factories, following the German-Soviet pact, warmly approved by the French leadership of the Party.

Franco was judged harshly, and justly, by history.

But his opponents on the far left were foolishly beatified.

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The same benevolent amnesia still largely spares

today for its tearful front page of March 6, 1953 devoted to the disappearance of the

, also a great gravedigger before the Eternal.

We will compare, in a spirit of parallelism, with the hypermnesia still striking today an extreme right whose very putative heirs are still considered as moral accomplices of the Collaboration.

Moreover, concerning the Spanish Civil War, Thierry Wolton has shown in his books how in terms of exactions, the cruel Phalangist soldiery has little to envy to the anarcho-communist troops who massacred the priests.

Franco was judged harshly, and justly, by history.

But his opponents on the far left were foolishly beatified.

Another field of application of the rule of two weights, two measures resulting in undue privilege: terrorism.

Like the Palestinian extremist militant who, for related reasons, is reluctantly called by name even though he emanates from organizations officially classified as terrorist, Italian terrorism is often nameless.

It is true that he is on the extreme left.

does not call them

but

.

We could also talk about the former members of the Red Brigades demanded by the Italian democratic justice to answer for their crimes.

Apart from the delicate modesty of not calling them by their name, a particular kindness surrounds them.

This is how their integration, rather than their escape, is highlighted.

And no one has forgotten how innocent Cesare Battisti was considered by the Parisian intellectual and media circles before he confessed his guilt, confiding that he had not had to force himself very much to be believed on his own face. .

A privileged mine, no doubt.

To a less lethal degree of violence, it will nevertheless be noted that the antifa militants are treated with less media harshness than the ultra-right thugs, wrongly accused by Liberation of having committed “pogroms” the day after the

. France - Morocco.

Red privilege drives the world crazy.

Gilles-William Goldnadel

Finally and to close this infinite panorama on red privilege, I will end with the asymmetrical responsibility of intellectuals.

Jules Guesde could have practiced anti-Semitism and held Dreyfus guilty more easily than Charles Maurras.

Sartre was able to give lessons in morality and political commitment while living comfortably during the Occupation.

In his preface to The

by Frantz Fanon, he was able to justify the murder of whites in Algeria with impunity.

Closer to home, Edwy Plenel, under an alias, celebrated the assassination of Jewish athletes thirty kilometers from Dachau (Editor's note, the author today rejects these remarks: "This text, written more than

,” he told

This does not prevent the same, at the microphone of France Culture on March 11, from proudly calling for

and considering that one could not discuss with the infrequent extreme right.

We will compare his fate with that of Richard Millet, guilty of having dared to confide that he did not feel safe in the cosmopolitan Parisian metropolis.

For this inexpiable crime, this important person in charge of a publishing house was condemned to social death.

A petition of freedom-loving left-wing intellectuals was successfully launched.

Finally, and for the picturesque anecdote, I will also mention, following Pierre-André Taguieff in his book on wokism, the Spanish trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado, a figure of leftism.

The fact that the latter considered in an article published in the newspaper

on November 30, 2020 that

and that

has not been reproached to him.

Red privilege drives the world crazy.

SEE

"It's partly the fault of the right if today Jean-Luc Mélenchon is so strong", denounces Gilles William Goldnadel