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.
What is "Islamo-leftism"?
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.
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
:gaddafi-happy:
Two scary words that enrages chuds, put together to sound even more enraging and thus allowing the regime to persecute dissidents in academia.
The good shit.
Islamo-fascism
No. It's what the French call "pointing out the nation's historical and ongoing racism".
my point was that it's a bullshit nonsense term
i feel old
Oh. I guess I didn't read the irony. You're right, they're both basically just slurs.