It seems every western country is fighting back against woke cultural Marxism except the U.S. The president of France shared his thoughts on intersectionality and in particular the U.S. universities social science departments yesterday in and interview, where is he wrong? Is all the west wrong that’s pushing back against this calling it poison and a doctrine that’s only goal is to fracture a society and does that mean only the left in America are right on this one and the rest of the world is just ignorant by not wanting any part of this ideology?
French society is becoming increasingly “racialized”, President Emmanuel Macron has warned in comments that blamed imported US social science ideas that focus on race. ← We are the idiots according to France and the UK
He took aim in particular at the idea of “intersectionality” – popular among left-leaning US academics – that seeks to explain discrimination and poverty by examining the role played by race, gender and other social factors in affecting an individual’s life chances.
“The logic of intersectionality fractures everything,” Macron said. “I stand for universalism. I don’t agree with a fight that reduces everyone to their identity or their particularity,” he continued.
So woke is exclusively a North America poison. I use to say Woke ideology and intersectionality was only practiced in the west, I was wrong its only in North America none of the other western countries want anything to do with it and shun it anytime they get the chance.
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As you guys normally relish in pointing out, we’re not France.
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And you are not the rest of the West either. Which countries approve of intersectionality? Why are only a minority within the institutions in the US, a country supposedly riddled with institutions racism, structural racism and systemic racism, the only ones able to see this urgent problem clearly.
Why do we use Fahrenheit, and Imperial measures?
Cause America.
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Hard to say as I don’t know that much about racism in France. However, I would not be surprised it it turns out that France, like the U.S., also has problems with systemic racism, and Macron is salty because he is the one currently in charge, and therfore has to deal with it.
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Are you able to elucidate the points you were trying to make in those two posts? What is their relevance to the OP?
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My point is very simple, I’m sure everyone can understand it.
Who cares what the President of France thinks?
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The OP did not refer only to the president of France. Which countries other than the US think CRT will be good for them too?
We seem to care what our allies think, or at least one would walk away with that thought after reading the media coverage of how Biden was received at the G7.
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That would be zero it is an American obsession. Europe and particular central and eastern Europe had to deal with fascism and communism in ways we never had to. I was reading an article a few years ago from a famous Polish journalist on why the countries of Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic don’t agree with Western Europe’s policies on migration and culture.
And I am paraphrasing but it was something in line with we know from the past how in the blink of and eye everything around you can come crashing down whether it was from having to live under fascism or communism we are naturally more protective and skeptical in changes to our society that our western neighbors often embark in.
It made since to me. Who are we to criticize their policies when they had to live under the jackboot of fascism followed directly by the sickle of communism. It’s enough to make anyone protective of what you have.
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zantax
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Well, I do, the EU being on my list of places to flee to if the left goes much further here.
Very few American citizens.
He hates America, great.
Let him stand on line.
Allan
I value my American citizenship. And would never leave.
I’d die for American values of freedom.
Other people would abandon the country on a whim.
Different strokes for different folks, I always say.
Allan
zantax
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If that was true, you would already be dead or in jail.
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Au contaire. We still have freedom in America despite what Fox News is feeding you.
Allan
WuWei
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What freedom do you feel you have.
The freedom to say what I want without fear of reprisal.
Try that in the EU, @zantax .
They regulate speech.
Allan
Missed an r
The English phrase ( imported from French)
Au contraire. (To the contrary)
Allan
