https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1362555180760395780
The main French state research organization (also the largest fundamental science agency in Europe), the CNRS, just came out following this bullshit; publishing a press release that said that islamo-leftism isn't actually a thing, and moreover condemning the regular attacks on legitimate research work, notably on research covering domains such as "intersectionality, post-colonial study, and racism". Not that it'll change anything, it's pretty clear where our government is headed right now.
Also, obligatory :france-cool:
You know, just like Judeo-Bolshevism, just slightly more Islamic.
If I had to read between the lines I would assume they're trying to identify academics with pro-Palestinian sympathies.
But it probably also includes anyone who studies postcolonialisn, who is too pro-Middle East and not enough pro-France, who critiqued the French government for beaming racist cartoons on the side of buildings and thinking it was a sane and good response to a teacher being killed, or really anyone at all who ever thought Derrida, Sartre, or The Battle of Algiers made a few good points.
If I had to read between the lines I would assume they’re trying to identify academics with pro-Palestinian sympathies.
That was my thought too.
Reading the article (and the press release another comrade posted here) it sounds 'Islamo-leftism' is a francosphere version of 'cultural Marxism', i.e. it doesn't mean anything really.
An invention to justify a crackdown on both at the same time
Two scary words that enrages chuds, put together to sound even more enraging and thus allowing the regime to persecute dissidents in academia.
No. It's what the French call "pointing out the nation's historical and ongoing racism".
Oh. I guess I didn't read the irony. You're right, they're both basically just slurs.
I'm starting to notice a trend with this whole "lesser of two evils" thing
The Interior minister and Le Pen had a debate this week where they talked about this for the entire time, despite being in the middle of a fucking pandemic and the government has shit the bed on the vaccine rollout.
Also there's a 6pm curfew so people literally wake up, go to work and then rush home to avoid getting fined for breaking it. It's worse than the stupid forms you had to fill out to go outside, because at least then you could go grocery shopping or take a walk at 7:30.
Every time something happens that clearly shows the failure of the neoliberal order in France, the entire French media starts focusing on burkinis, or the head covering, or some other bullshit. This week it's lies about Trappes, which is the French equivalent of chud reactions to Dearborn and the apparent Sharia law imposed there.
People should also look up how much power Macron has centralized around his office the past few years, it's nuts.
I read once that most of his party's MPs are basically amateurs with no experience in politics who are easily controlled by Macron.
