Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 12, 2023, 07:55:10 pm »On French incorrigibility:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-really-think-le-wokisme-150000371.html
The only solution:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg17897/#msg17897
https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-really-think-le-wokisme-150000371.html
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What the French really think of ‘Le Wokisme’
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France has always been remarkably impervious to global cultural shifts and has held a tight grip on its own traditions for far longer than many other western countries. “I think it’s generally about 10 years behind the English-speaking world in terms of anything politically correct,” says Paris-based British author Stephen Clarke. “Until about five years ago they were still making fun of foreign accents on television and until even more recently they thought veganism was akin to insanity. It takes them ages to catch up with these things.”
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On a wider level the French, as we know, don’t hold much truck with having their beliefs or desires policed. As the sociologist François Dubet wrote in Left-leaning Le Monde, “How can we think that it is up to the State to say which currents of thought are acceptable and which are not?”
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“In the UK, I find myself getting preached at by 18-year-olds all the time, but that never happens in France,” says Clarke. “Traditionally French teenagers are very teenage – they smoke and sleep with each other, but then they leave university and turn into their parents.”
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And that, essentially, is the crux of the argument. For all their Left-leaning politics and fiery street protests, the French are very conservative – and their strikes are almost all about maintaining the status quo, rather than fighting to change the country or put it on a new path.
The only solution:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg17897/#msg17897