When the French, the French!, are our voice of reason, you know how far into the Crazy Zone the US has gotten:
Some prominent French figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, are rejecting “woke” ideology that has been imported from the United States amid a breakdown in relations between the two nations.
A cover story by Le Spectacle Du Monde, one of France’s leading magazines, recently ran a piece titled “The Suicide of America” in which it blames the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan on a “woke dictatorship” and questioned whether the American “empire was collapsing,” Zenger News reported.
The article also took American universities to task over alleged extremism and censorship on campuses. The story cited Yale University, where school officials urged students to reconsider Halloween costumes that might be racially insensitive.
Macron, who has been criticized by French progressives, told Elle Magazine this past summer that woke culture was “racializing” French society, Zenger reported.
“I see that our society is becoming progressively racialized,” he said.
Several members of his government have also shared anti-woke views, including Elisabeth Moreno, the french French delegate minister for gender equality and diversity.
“The ‘woke’ culture is something very dangerous, and we shouldn’t bring it to France,” she told Bloomberg News in May.
Go here to read the rest. Wokeness is a malignant parasite that kills its host. Viva la France.
The “minister for gender equality and diversity” is a “woke” position. They say one thing but do another.
Actually I think it is a good sign for the French that the French Minister with that title is criticizing wokeness.
Aren’t the French “woke” enough to require vaccine passports? When folks are commanded by edict to inject something into their bodies that they don’t want lest they be excluded from the basic rights of normal life in society, in effect one is owned by the state. It doesn’t get any more “woke” than that. And that’s where most of the world seems headed at the moment, unless by the grace of God, the world turns from its evil ways.
Two things: the French intellectual scene has gotten livelier over the last generation. There was a grotesque conformism which developed during de Gaulle’s waning years (legendary actor Yves Montand became anti-communist and took heat, not that he cared), and the less said about their stupid incitement laws the better.
But the Black Book of Communism came out of France, an endeavor which never could have been produced by American intellectuals (though to Harvard’s credit, its Belknap press published the tome).
Which brings me to the second: it seems clear to me there’s soul searching going on amongst an influential set of thinkers in academia and otherwise going on over there, along with society at large. Even the dogged atheists are starting to worry about the vacuum left by the disintegration of Catholicism.
Correct Dale. France actually has a fairly lengthy history of people standing against what appeared to be the tide of history.
Lieutenant Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart of the Dreyfuss Affair comes quickly to mind as do Blaise Pascal and Joan of Arc.
Perhaps, hopefully, there is still a little bit of life yet in the Eldest Daughter of the Church.