"Strasbourg's 'gender-neutral' budget, a sign of the porosity between the communitarian virtue leagues and the Greens"

Xavier-Laurent Salvador is an associate professor of modern literature and a lecturer in medieval language and literature.

He co-directs the Observatory of decolonialism and identity ideologies, which has a website: decolonialisme.fr.

It is time, in Strasbourg, to get up from his seat as a municipal councilor to repair the injustices: done to the citizens of the city?

No, you lack ambition.

The injustices done to French citizens?

Come on, greater still: the injustices of this world!

By rebelling?

No, by obeying the European Commission, whose leaders know - those who are wise - what is good for us.

And this is how the ecologist town hall ventures into the field of the “genderless budget”.

And as for the retirement law, under the guise of budget proposals: it is indeed the reform of morals in question.

We have learned that the town hall of Strasbourg is embarking on the renewal of political discourse by proposing a "gender-sensitive budget", that is to say a budget oriented towards the promotion of equal rights between men and women and inclusive society.

This budget, hailed by the opposition as a form of progress, nevertheless presents some worrying elements.

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First of all, the city of Strasbourg's approach is part of a communitarian dynamic, programmed by the Commission in terms that leave no room for doubt:

What “decisions” are we talking about?

To find out, just consult the town hall's website and read the simplistic organization of the budgets: according to the town hall, public expenditure can be classified into three categories.

Those likely to have an effect, positive or negative, on gender equality (criterion 2), those, such as the reorganization of schoolyards (photos), which favor it (criterion 1) and those which are neutral ( criterion 0).

We therefore see through these elements of language repeated

that the schoolyard is only a budgetary pretext to promote the reconfiguration of recreational spaces

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The example of the schoolyard perfectly illustrates the moral bias introduced into the budgetary affairs of the city, which one could imagine, in these troubled times, that its first mission would be to fight against social inequalities,

wage

and not to be interested in moral divisions.

How can the notion of “decision-making and social justice” assistance be linked in reality with the

positive influence that the redevelopment of a schoolyard could have on the promotion of equal rights?

To understand it, you have to follow a subversive, almost revolutionary path of thought;

and to put it bluntly: questionable.

Some answers can be found in the reports of another municipality, that of Dunkirk, a pioneer in this field:

We therefore see through these elements of language repeated

that the schoolyard is only a budgetary pretext to promote the reconfiguration of recreational spaces in the municipality as a testing ground for inclusive pedagogy.

Far from having proven itself, this pedagogy is actually clumsy and actually reinforces stereotypes (manly boys are doomed to failure).

Yet today, in terms of academic success, girls, far from being sidelined, are in fact one of the most dynamic drivers of school cohorts.

One will read on this subject the excellent analysis of the statistician Cyrille Godonou on the site of the Observatory of decolonialism whose conclusion should at least allow to

The focus on the question of gender is in fact an arbitrary bias put forward by the disciples of deconstruction who thus proceed to an indictment of the school institution.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador

“The better overall academic success of girls tends to mask more subtle phenomena that reverse this trend in sub-fields: distribution tail, different variance according to sex, competitive examination situation, unusual exercises, specialization in mathematics…Disparities in numbers in higher education courses as well as in research and engineering professions essentially reflect the choices of orientation and the results of competitions and examinations”

.

The focus on the question of gender is in fact an arbitrary bias put forward by the disciples of deconstruction who thus proceed to an indictment of the school institution.

Indeed, the presupposition of such manipulation starts from the principle that the school is the place of the formation of inequalities, which is obviously false, since in reality the school fights against the social inequalities which it inherits when the

leave their family environment to enter fully into infantile sociability.

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But no matter: the very idea that the gender budget is a moral action in the service of a just cause which would consist in shaping tomorrow's society without the knowledge of today's citizens, this is what becomes the leitmotif of the European action in terms of funding, whether for research or financial incentives for municipal policies.

We therefore understand quite easily that the argument of a

(technical term) in the service of the

(another technocratic term) hides a hideous ideological reality.

The gender-neutral budget argument claims to stem from a financial policy when in reality it clumsily hides an ideological grip on which the population has not really given its opinion.

There is currently an offensive, carried out by the ecological town halls, by the forces of deconstruction.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The town hall does not give examples of financing which would disadvantage the promotion of gender equality: financing a men's football club, is this a holy and moral action in the eyes of the Commission?

Or should we now weigh this action against the moral tribunal of the inclusive inquisition?

And who to determine, with clairvoyance, the positive or negative moral issues of such and such a proposal?

You will answer me that the solution is obvious: we must have recourse to pedagogues, for example, and to scientists in general who will shed light on moral policy with their conscientized and awakened lights.

But where will the town hall of Strasbourg, for example, go to find the enlightened scientists who will submit reports on the city's health policy, promoting the development of an inclusive society in respect and the promotion of gender equality? ?

Should we look for experts whose mission would be to say what is morally good for the municipality?

And return to the logic of the directors of conscience?

Very recently, the environmentalist mayor of the city of Besançon defined herself, in an interview with the

woman

.

This eruption of wokism in the speech of a political personality marked an essential turning point underlining the porosity between the leagues of communitarian virtue and the political personnel.

There is currently an offensive, carried out by the ecological town halls, by the forces of deconstruction.