Jean-Louis Thiériot: "Faced with the rewriting of works, let's modify the law to protect freedom of spirit"

Wokism and cancel culture are plural. One day it is the statues that are taken down, one day the university libraries across the Atlantic that are emptied of the great writers of the West, one day Aeschylus' The Suppliantsthat are deprogrammed at the Sorbonne. The symptoms are different, but the philosophy is the same: the deconstruction of civilization and Western anthropology, in the name of a victimary solidarity of minorities analyzed solely through the prism of the dominant-dominated couple dear to Bourdieu and his cronies. The strategy is crystal clear. It is a question of massing all the real or supposed victims, "racialized", "colonized", LGBTQ+ communities, women discriminated against to fuel the fire of "intersectional" struggles.

After the time of the clean slate, here comes the more perverse time of redacting the works of the mind. As usual, the wave comes from the Anglo-Saxon world. Agatha Christie's works are rewritten - The Ten Little Negroes Become They...

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