WOKE WATCH: Paris politician tells whites to shut up on racism
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Publishing date:Mar 30, 2021 • 23 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
Paris Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar says whites should not be allowed to discuss race.
Paris Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar says whites should not be allowed to discuss race. PHOTO BY JOEL SAGET /AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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No, an army of liberal arts college grads haven’t invaded France.
But like the last time the country was invaded, a politician wants to torpedo freedom of speech.
Paris’s deputy mayor has triggered outrage by demanding that white people be banned from discussing racism.
People hold a placard reading “Racism is a way of delegating to someone else its own self-disgust” as they demonstrate in Nantes, on June 8, 2020, during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ worldwide protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed while apprehended by police in Minneapolis.
People hold a placard reading “Racism is a way of delegating to someone else its own self-disgust” as they demonstrate in Nantes, on June 8, 2020, during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ worldwide protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed while apprehended by police in Minneapolis. PHOTO BY LOIC VENANCE /Getty
No, really.
Left-wing Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar, 49, has clear views on the topic.
“(White people should) be asked to keep quiet and be silent spectators during discussions around racism attended by Black and ethnic minority people,” Pulvar said.
She added: “People who suffer discrimination for the same reasons and in the same way feel the need to meet among themselves to discuss it.”
The mayor’s comments come on the heels of France wrestling with the emergence of American woke culture in the home of Voltaire.
Various academics said last month the country was being “contaminated” by the American left’s obsession with race, gender and post-colonialism.
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Even former socialist prime minister Manuel Valls called Pulvar’s comments a betrayal of French values, The Times of London reports.
“This rhetoric, always justifying the victim, leads to disaster … Do you have to be Jewish to talk about anti-Semitism?” Valls said on Europe 1 Radio.
The emergence of American “woke culture” threatens the very fabric of the country, Valls added.
In a book published in February, social scientists Stephane Beaud and Gerard Noiriel argued that race is a “bulldozer” that destroys all other subjects.
And because France has a secular government, the authors don’t believe race should be studied as a subject in the academy.
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A call to ban white people from discussions about racism has split the left and triggered indignation over the rise of the American woke culture in French life.
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Paris's deputy mayor has triggered outrage by demanding that white people be banned from discussing racism.
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