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Gendered or racialized meetings: a democratic scandal?7 reading minutes

par Olivier Meuwly
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Some Masonic lodges and student societies, for example, accept only one sex among their members, a possibility guaranteed by freedom of association. Photo: Jim Robinson (via Unsplash)

With wokism, withdrawal into one's own identity became a sign of rejection of the Enlightenment. Is this still the case? Isn't getting together between women - or between men - a legitimate demand, albeit one that wokes up to in a very incoherent way?

The French political landscape is shaking with anguish and anger in March 2021. The UNEF student union has dared the unthinkable, a veritable assault on republican universalism, violating, some are convinced, the foundations of a supposed founding pact. How can you imagine, in a country steeped in equality, the son of Voltaire and Rousseau, that anyone can boast of organizing meetings that are closed to one section of the population? A spokeswoman for this union admitted to the media that her organization had set up «racially unmixed» meetings, accepting the idea that women p

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