(The Daily Citizen) French politicians, intellectual elites and journalists don’t like American progressive ideas on “race, gender, post-colonialism” The New York Times recently reported. It should be a sign to Americans that “wokeness” is starting to go too far.
“Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States, with their problems, which I respect, and which exist, but which are just added to ours, I say to myself that it is reasonable to make this choice,’’ French President Emmanuel Macron recently said.
“And so we must, very clearly, re-invest, on a massive scale, in the field of social sciences, history, understanding of civilizations by creating posts, by stepping up dialogue, academic and scientific debate in order not to allow the knowledge, the understanding of Islam as a religion, of the civilization it underpins and its contribution to our country and our continent to become ideological and exclusively political debates.”