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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

PERPETUAL ABOLITION: FOR A FINALLY LIBERATED DECOLONIAL FRANCE (BUT NOT TOO FAST)

While campaigning with absolute intransigence for total abolition here, we must guard against any attempt at hasty judgment on non-Western societies which, for their part, have perhaps found in certain forms of servitude a civilizational balance that it is not up to us to deconstruct. The essential thing is to abolish, again and again, in France only.

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Jacques-Robert

Wooden apologies

At Columbia, the president, Nemat Shafik, known as Minouche, had to call the police on campus to dislodge pro-Palestinian students from their camps and from university buildings where they had no business, Hamilton Hall in particular. About a hundred of them had been arrested: this somewhat disconcerted them, having been raised in the absence of contradiction and unable to accept being accused of harassing those they believe to be responsible for or approving of the war in the Middle East and who have only the "fault" of being Jewish.

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Nathalie Heinich

Ridicule does not kill the Parisian municipality

Woke neo-feminism does not spare the publications of the City of Paris, as evidenced by the latest Petit Journal of the 12th arrondissement. Regarding the development project for Place Félix Éboué, intended to "redevelop the square for the benefit of pedestrians", we read: "After several months of consultations with Parisians, local residents, shopkeepers, but also all users, Place Félix Éboué will radically transform (sic) for everyone."

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