Did Gérald Darmanin expect to cause such an uproar by questioning the public funding of the League for Human Rights after the events in Sainte-Soline?
The professionals of the indignation quickly gathered under the banner of the latter, maintaining that the LDH had never known such a questioning since Vichy, thus "petaining" both the Minister of the Interior and the government in which he participates, accused moreover of swinging towards the extreme right.
The concept of "extreme right" no longer has any meaning and serves less to describe the positioning of a political actor than to "unfrequentabiliser".
But this controversy will at least have enabled those who have dug it a little to see to what extent the League of Human Rights has little to do with the defense of human rights, to what point, in other words, the political language is falsified, to what extent old words that move us are used to convey ideas that have...
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