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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Anti-Wokeism Manifesto

A specter haunts contemporary societies: that of wokism. In universities, administrations, public and professional spaces, an insidious ideology seeks to redefine cultural, social and political norms. It claims to be inclusive, equal and socially just, but in reality is part of a logic of division, censorship and ideological oppression. We, opponents of wokism, rise up to defend universal values, freedom of expression and democratic pluralism against this intellectual and political drift.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 19th November 2024
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Jacques-Robert

About deconstruction

The concept of "deconstruction" was born from the works of Derrida and, according to his kind followers, "it has become, in the minds of reactionaries of all stripes, the portmanteau word designating everything they hate in thought, when it seeks to emancipate rather than to order."

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Jacques-Robert 18th June 2024
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Olivier Galland

In search of Islamophobia…

Islamophobia has a clear political use that has been consecrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But beyond that, what does the term really mean? And is what it is supposed to designate – a deep hostility towards Muslims that has spread in French society – supported by facts?

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Olivier Galland 6th June 2024
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism

Woke ideology has long since penetrated the daily life of the business world and public administration. There are major and unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And there are these little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which nibble away at our space of freedom every day. What are some examples? Where does it come from? What can we do?

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 12th February 2024
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research

The European Research Council (ERC) budget for the seven-year Horizon Europe programme amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI). Is France autonomous in its higher education policy? No, because it conforms to European policies inspired by the United Nations aimed at achieving externally set objectives. Over the past 15 years, research and higher education in France have been silently transformed, partly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon liberal models established by Brussels.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador August 30, 2023
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Joseph Ciccolini

Critical Race Theory: When Cancerology Gets Tangled in the Woke Carpet

There is no longer any need to recall the permeability of entire sections of academic research to theories themselves stemming from French Theory and from deconstructivism at all costs. Initially confined to the human and social sciences, this groundswell is now affecting the hard sciences since perched articles such as "Queer identity and theory intersections in mathematics education: a theoretical literature review" or "A quantum physics explanation for polyamory, BDSM, and queer people" are now commonplace (1, 2). 

In the USA, this trend and in particular the emergence of Critical Race Theory is now affecting medical sciences and it is with a mixture of amusement and dismay that we see the blossoming, in the major international conferences usually held in North America, of lunar works now aiming to denounce the endemic and patriarchal WASP systemic racism in the care of patients suffering from cancer.

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Joseph Ciccolini March 28, 2023
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Jean Szlamowicz and Yana Grinshpuhn

Inclusive writing put to the test by linguistics

The claim to contribute to the social progress of inclusive writing (IE) is based on false premises, linked to a partial interpretation distorting the reality of the attested grammatical functioning of the French language. Inclusive writing is a militant reform of the language built on the denunciation of imaginary injustices deriving from symbolic interpretations that do not correspond to any strictly linguistic reality. It intends to inscribe various gender identities or to "make women visible", political marketing that has nothing in common with the description of the nominal classes of French and constitutes a political claim based on beliefs and not on empirically verified knowledge. Its supporters, even among linguists, prescribe works and references that go against the methods, data and knowledge accepted in language sciences.

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Jean Szlamowicz and Yana Grinshpuhn 30th January 2023
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Nathalie Heinich

Social sciences and wokeness: why France is a special case

The phenomenon known as "woke" or "wokism" is international: initially developed on North American campuses towards the end of the 2010s and having quickly reached the worlds of culture, politics and even business, it has not taken long to cross the Atlantic to invest in many European countries. Its success is largely due to the fact that it defends causes associated, rightly, with progress and justice, but - and this is where it poses a problem - by making them systematic or even unique grids for perceiving the world.

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Nathalie Heinich 2th January 2023
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

We are the lawyers of the dead

The New York Times recently devoted an article to the subject of the defacement of the statue of Victor Hugo by Ousmane Sow in Besançon, which led to reprehensible atrocities by radicalized identitarians who were very ill-advised to attack a statue of Victor Hugo. This subject led me to mention the "opportunistic revisionism of the Besançon city hall".

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 1th January 2023
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Cyrille Godonou

The mechanisms underlying gender disparities in mathematics: preferences, performance, discrimination or stereotypes?

Several studies show that parents perceive girls as less gifted in mathematics, less interested in this discipline, and therefore more compelled to work to succeed. Perhaps more importantly, these perceptions persist even when girls obtain identical or even higher grades than boys! Jussim and Eccles surveyed a hundred mathematics teachers about the competence and effort made in this discipline by each of the students in their 6th grade class (ages 11-12).

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Cyrille Godonou 15th November 2022

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