Macron hinting at a possible crack-down on SJW race-baiter professors in France?
Some habbenings in the works in France to crack down on the SJW "race theory" professors? At least French people are paying attention.
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/06/30/comment-emmanuel-macron-s-est-aliene-le-monde-des-sciences-sociales_6044632_3224.html
Translation of the interesting parts:
How Emmanuel Macron Alienated the World of Social Sciences
Three weeks later, outrage remains high in universities.
Almost three weeks later, the pill is still hard to swallow for the academic world. "Shameful", "serious", "intellectually stupid", "violent" … The indignation remains strong among many university Professors, especially in social sciences, against what they consider an "attack" by the President of the Republic .
At the starting point of this irritation, there are only a few sentences reported in Le Monde on June 10, but they did not go unnoticed: "The academic world was guilty," said Emmanuel Macron privately, while he mentioned the mobilizations of part of the youth against police violence and racism, which occurred in the wake of the George Floyd affair in the United States. Guilty of what? "It encouraged the ethnicization of the social question by thinking that it was a good thing to exploit," continued the president. "However, the result of this can only be secession. This amounts to breaking the Republic in two parts."
In the viewfinder of the head of state, therefore, the humanities and the social sciences. These sociologists, these historians, these political scientists, who work on a variety of themes relating to discrimination, using the reading grid of "race" - in the sense of a social construction according to which practices and behaviors are assigned to people based on their skin color.
Protest movement
The outcry is broad, perhaps because the president’s formulation on the “academic world” is too broad itself. "Research must be able to be exercised freely," said Gilles Roussel, head of the Conference of University Presidents. This generalization of the academic world is unacceptable. "
[…] - [loads of whining by SJW Professors]
The moment is not trivial: a protest movement, particularly strong in the social sciences, has been going through the research community for several months, against a research law denounced as a source of greater "insecurity".
"This controversy comes against a backdrop of tensions between the academic world and the government," said Christine Rivalan-Guégo, vice-president at Rennes-II University. This will further contribute to the climate of mistrust. For the researcher in charge of equality and discrimination issues in the establishment of the Breton human sciences, "what is deeply disturbing in these" reported words "is that they are not supported by specific facts: this rest of the level of the process of intention, cookie-cutter formulas, which discredit research work. "
[…] - [moar whining]
Behind the president’s remarks, it’s hard not to see a reference to a “decolonial movement”, sometimes accused of having taken control of the university and imposed its reading charts. Based on: the "post-colonial studies" from the Anglo-Saxon world, which French research took hold in the early 2000s.
[…] - [moar whining]
Some academics, however, heard Emmanuel Macron’s words with a completely different feeling. Isabelle de Mecquenem, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Reims is a member of the Vigilance Universities collective, founded in 2016, which has around one hundred members. This network intends to "fight all forms of racism and anti-Semitism, communitarianism and supposedly decolonial racialism" and "fight for the defense of secularism at the university". "The ethnicization of social relations is a perfectly legitimate framework for reading, but it must be confronted with others," said Ms. de Mecquenem. However in certain university departments, there is a deviation from the critical function, with certain teachers who want to impose this grid unequivocally, and embrace a militant use of knowledge. "
For her, the observation of Emmanuel Macron requires that an "inventory" be conducted to verify that the public service of higher education is indeed "independent of any political, economic, religious or ideological influence", as it is written