European subsidies, witch hunts, corrupted institutions: how universities are being infiltrated by Islamo-wokeism
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INTERVIEW - History professor Pierre Vermeren and linguist Xavier-Laurent Salvador, who co-edited Face à l'obscurantisme woke (PUF), recount the outcry triggered by this book. They reveal the scope of the woke phenomenon, its influence within our institutions, and its ideological and financial motivations.
LE FIGARO. - Why this book and why did it generate so much discussion even before its release?
Xavier-Laurent SALVADOR. - This book responds to a reality that has been shocking us for six years at the Observatory of Decolonialism. It brings together people who are alerting and documenting the emergence of woke obscurantism at the University. We are not the ones calling it woke; we are witnessing the endemic development of identity ideologies , which we consider to be obscurantism. We document, through our reports and our books, this dimension that is messing up the academic system, from recruitment to research, by substituting false sciences for the disciplinary postulates that have helped structure the University. It is a matter of documenting in order to inform the general public about this mysterious place, which frightens everyone, called the university. The university is frightening; people don't dare enter it. It is an autonomous place and only academics can document the issue and...
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