{"id":46924,"date":"2022-03-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=46924"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T08:23:12","slug":"dun-essentialisme-a-un-autre-zemmour-dit-merci-au-wokisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/company\/dun-essentialisme-a-un-autre-zemmour-dit-merci-au-wokisme\/","title":{"rendered":"From one essentialism to another: Zemmour thanks the woke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 83<\/a><\/em> - Claudio Recupero<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A movement that originated in the United States has arrived in Europe and become very well known over the last two years: wokism. This ideological movement, literally \u00abawake\u00bb to all forms of inequality and discrimination, makes the defense of \u00abminorities\u00bb - ethnic, religious, sexual... - its absolute objective. In this article, Geneva historian and professor Claudio Recupero criticizes the means used by the woke to achieve their ends. In his view, they are counter-productive and end up imitating what they denounce.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The obsession with the radical defense of minorities perversely leads to the stigmatization of the \u00abmajority\u00bb - the \u00abmajority\u00bb or those designated as such by those in the know, those who don't have it easy. Holders of the truth, scissors in one hand and eraser in the other. As if being in the majority, or categorized as such, were now a... cardinal sin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Outrance rhymes with counter-productivity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Today, as a white, European, male baby-boomer, I tick a lot of boxes in this curious game of the zeitgeist. These congenital defects make me, in the eyes of certain alert minds, an automatic disqualifier, a destroyer of the planet, a phallocrat with a guilty post-colonial spirit. Yes, guilty, because the prevailing wokism makes me a suspect from birth, even before I open my mouth to attempt a \u00abbut\u00bb. And if I attempt that \u00abbut\u00bb, then I sign my admission of guilt, my confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n