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Luc Ferry: "Wokism, a legacy of '68 thought'"

2023-05-10T17:56:39.449Z

Highlights: "Deconstruction" has become a formidable war machine against our republican universalism, writes Frédéric Beigbeder. The word, borrowed from Heidegger by Derrida, once belonged to the vocabulary of philosophy. President Macron did not hesitate to make his own expression of wokism, which explains in passing the now famous "white privilege", writes BeigBeder. "Wokism" and "cancel culture" are now popular terms for a return to the paradoxically reactionary vision.


CHRONICLE - It is indeed the deconstruction of the republican idea that we are witnessing in favor of a return to the paradoxically reactionary vision.


After so many others (including your servant...), Frédéric Beigbeder will have also experienced this violent purification that activists now practice in the name of wokism, "cancel culture" and "deconstruction".

This word, borrowed from Heidegger by Derrida, once belonged to the vocabulary of philosophy. Sign of the times, it has taken place, as in the United States, in ordinary language as evidenced among others by the words of Sandrine Rousseau on her "deconstructed man". For reasons that are not anecdotal, "deconstruction" has become a formidable war machine against our republican universalism, a universalism that the American left-wing press considers simply racist, because "colorblind", "color blind", blind to the color of races at the same time as the now famous "white privilege", a typical expression of wokism that President Macron did not hesitate to make his own - which explains in passing...

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