Chers amis,
we publish on the site excerpts exclusively granted to the Observatory of Identity Ideologies from the excellent work of Samuel Fitoussi, Woke Fiction which we warmly recommend you read here under the following link: https://decolonialisme.fr/woke-fiction-de-samuel-fitoussi-extraits-comment-combattre-limmiscion-du-wokisme-dans-les-institutions/
The collection begins thus:
Does the imperative of identity “representation” in fiction lead us towards an anthropological regression?
In 2007, psychologist Paul Slovic attempted to answer the following question: why do we have this unfortunate tendency to remain indifferent to genocides and mass murders? […] His answer: a mechanism of “psychic numbing.” Our behavior, he explains, is not guided solely by our reason but also by moral intuitions. Instantaneous, sometimes imperceptible emotional reactions (“affect”) imbue the information we receive with meaning, influence the interpretation we give it and the reactions we choose to adopt. Now these moral intuitions, since they have been selected by evolution, are those that have allowed us to survive in pre-industrial societies, to effectively protect our family and our community from immediate dangers. We are therefore not programmed to have much empathy for strangers whose fate, however dire, has no negative consequences for us. (This was also Adam Smith's intuition, expounded in Chapter 1.)
You can also consult our recent articles:Earthquake in Morocco: the king refuses help from France... except to get treatment. / September 22, 2023
After the earthquake, the King of Morocco took four days to get there. Four days is a long time. Why such a delay? Simple: His Highness was in France for medical treatment. And it was not the first time: in 2018 he had already come to France for a heart operation.
Progressivism gone astray / August 30, 2023
The decision taken by the Minister of National Education to put the abaya in the category of "conspicuous religious symbols" is a response to the army of self-proclaimed Islamist preachers, who explained to young Muslim girls on Tik Tok how to obey Allah by subverting the 2004 school law. It is hypocritical in these conditions to maintain that it is not a religious garment.
Dissertation on sex and language: for a grammatical archaeology of gender
/ September 25, 2023
The arguments for inclusive writing are fallacious. Taking each element point by point, this long dissertation returns to the origins of the confusion between sex and language and provides the essential elements to respond to it.
How ‘conversion therapy’ became an LGBT+ political weapon: investigation
/ September 25, 2023
When a law passed on a misunderstanding allows the censorship of opponents of transgender ideology and religions"...
The bias of omission of the family quotient in the alleged gender-based tax inequality
/ September 22, 2023
In their book entitled The Gender of Capital. How the Family Reproduces Inequalities, sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac address in a box what they call "A Sexist Unthought: The Taxation of Child Support." The two researchers deplore the fact that "the taxation of child support in France does not contribute to reducing economic inequality between men and women following a separation, quite the contrary!" But an ongoing review of French taxation refutes their activist hypothesis.
State Islamism on the Move…
/ September 15, 2023
Salma has been a secular activist for years. She warns about the government's project of an "Islam of France". The notes are hers. Comments collected on July 8, 2019 and published on July 12, 2019 on the Lieux Communs website.
The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research
/ August 30, 2023
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.
You will also find our monitoring letters on woke news:
Wokism, the facts n°19 (September 1-15, 2023)
/ September 22, 2023
Calls for papers Decolonizing the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South (Paris) Taking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the…
Wokism, the facts n°18 (July-August 2023)
/ September 11, 2023
July-August 2023 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures A Queer Middle Ages?A Queer Middle Ages? Organized by: Rory Critten and Leticia Ding — Information Session Tuesday…
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