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Andreas Bikfalvi

Medicine put to the test by “critical race theory”

For Andreas Bikfalvi, medicine is a humanist activity that must protect itself against constructivist, racialist and "differentialist" ideologies. If the social sciences are very affected by identity ideology, the hard sciences and even the biomedical sciences are not.

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Jean Szlamowicz

How jazz is impervious to decolonial discourse

For jazz specialist Jean Szlamowicz, this music is part of the artistic movements that remain impervious to decolonial theories. You surely know the new trendy toy: decolonization. In general, it should be used with the word deconstruction. Very practical, you can apply it to

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Collective

“Islamo-leftism” versus “left-wing reactionaries”

by Véronique Taquin Some were offended last June when Emmanuel Macron accused the academic world of "encouraging the ethnicization of the social question", in other words of making poverty what it is not, a question of ethnicity, to put it politely.

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Renee Fregosi

How to “decolonize” the Covid-19 pandemic?

Philosopher Renée Fregosi denounces the discourses that attempt to establish a link between the origin of Covid-19 and the coloniality of the West. Nothing will be spared us in the Covid-19 health crisis. In this context of concerns and tensions, decolonial ideology,

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Hubert Heckmann

Nigerian Scam: Crooks or Robin Hood?

By Hubert Heckmann: An academic work attempts to place “Nigerian-style” scams within a decolonial framework… even if it means praising a criminal system. Nahema Hanafi, a historian at the University of Angers, has published a book, L'Arnaque à la sexualité. Spams, postcolonial relations and

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Francois Rastier

Decolonial tyrants, ordinary fascists

More than half a century after the end of Western colonization, decolonialism is experiencing a remarkable boom. At the risk of twisting certain historical truths…More than half a century after the end of colonization, at least Western colonization, decolonialism, an ideology developed in the following century, is experiencing a remarkable boom.

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Collective

Taguieff – The Enduring Illusion of Positive Discrimination

For the anti-racism specialist, positive discrimination mechanisms have encouraged a multicultural dynamic in society. At the end of January 2021, a certain Mehdi Thomas Allal published an article in Marianne that was intended to be daring, entitled “To reduce inequalities, let’s dare to discriminate”

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

“Colonialism”, this other virus that is hitting France…

Linguist Xavier-Laurent Salvador analyzes decolonial rhetoric, which proposes to repudiate the Republic as the only horizon. Did you know that Socrates had people in his nose? They were called "sophists." He fought them, and they killed him. The reason for

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