Pierre Valentin is the author of
Understanding the woke revolution
(2023, Gallimard).
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LE FIGARO. - Formerly Catholic, Hamtramck became, in 2013, the first Muslim-majority city in the United States. Recently the mayor, of Yemeni origin, banned LGBT flags in public places. Former mayor
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Pierre VALENTIN. -
One of the ideological time bombs that the left has brought back within it is the fascination with the figure of the “Other”.
What could initially have been a simple open-mindedness towards people outside the norm at a given moment, a simple desire not to let tribalism rule public life, has turned into a desire to sacralize everything that was different.
To write “Other”, after a certain stage, is to despise one's own community and to glorify any destruction of its norms and customs.
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