The Observatory of University Ethics, created in 2019 under the name "Observatory of Decolonialism" then "Identity Ideologies", is an independent initiative dedicated to defending the fundamental values of the university and promoting higher education that respects the principles of ethics, secularism and academic freedom. We are committed to preserving a university where the search for truth, free intellectual debate and the transmission of knowledge are exercised in a rigorous and impartial framework.
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In a few years, we have produced and continue to produce more than 2000 articles with a view to documenting the penetration of identity ideologies and wokeness within the university – in France, and in the world – on all subjects and covering all areas of this disaster. We submit each year an objective report on the issue and we publish documented analyses. You can't say you didn't know...
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Jacques Robert denounces the ideological instrumentalization of science and protests against those who want to remove the human and social sciences (HSS) from the CNRS. Just as much as the so-called "hard" sciences, the HSS make a major contribution to knowledge of the world.
The collective work Critique de la raison universitaire, edited by Arnaud Bernadet, explores how certain identity-based, managerial, and activist ideologies undermine the foundations of science, reason, and academic freedom within Western universities, particularly in Canada and France. Through contributions from various academics, the book denounces the erosion of intellectual pluralism caused by censorship, EDI policies, the indigenization of knowledge, and the transformation of law into an instrument of activism, calling for a rigorous defense of academic autonomy as a requirement of truth.
The best parts of Samuel Fitoussi's latest work, which highlights the ideological excesses and support given by many 20th-century intellectuals to totalitarian regimes, showing that culture and intelligence do not protect against error, but can sometimes lead to it with zeal.
The example of a trans actress whose career collapsed after the discovery of comments deemed racist and Islamophobic reveals the contradictions of wokeism. Claudio Rubiliani exposes intersectionality, an incoherent and self-destructive ideology, ridiculed by its own excesses.
Fabrice Balanche, a researcher at Lyon 2 University, was prevented from giving a lecture by masked activists claiming to be pro-Palestinian. The University Ethics Observatory responded to this climate of intimidation in a statement demanding sanctions and strong commitment from university and government authorities.
In "The Hippocratic Sermon," Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson denounce the ideological excesses of transaffirmative medicine, particularly among minors, practices that run counter to traditional medical ethics and are sources of serious physical and psychological harm. Drawing on concrete cases, historical analyses, and the Cass report, they call for rigorous remedicalization based on psychology, clinical prudence, and child protection. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.
It will explore cyborg dogs becoming queer and canine intimacies at the heart of the anti-colonial struggle. Mikhail Kostylev analyzes a highly acclaimed American article in which ideology leads to the manipulation of language and the denial of reality.
The exhibition "Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art" at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Stephanie Sparling Williams, offers a radical rereading of American art history by inverting power relations: works by non-white and women artists are foregrounded, while those by white artists are physically demeaned to force a reckoning with historical inequalities. This approach, hailed by some as a necessary deconstruction of the dominant narrative, is criticized by others as a form of radical activism that transforms the museum experience into an ideological display.
We are the advocates of the dead, not because we hear their voices, but because we refuse to subject knowledge to seductive illusions. Science cannot be a field of "exceptional" experiments; it is, above all, a space of intellectual demand.
In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one's own, and to test one's virtues, one's body, one's fantasies, one's hopes and one's ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists, but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!
There is no stopping progress in the invention of new woke causes, intended to wake up the troops who are a little too asleep again. Because it's true, by force of stuffing ourselves with "gender" (about half of the themes listed in the 250 or so items of our 2023 Report), "racialization", "Islamophobia", "homophobia", "transphobia", "fatphobia" and all the phobias imaginable (except that of mice and reptiles, the only ones that I unfortunately have to confess), we end up finding the soap opera a little repetitive... Thus the dreary flock of "sheep of thought" periodically struggles to renew the livestock of the unfortunate victims of Domination (curse your name too pronounced!). And the latest discovery to date is children. Dare you?
This requires, since the Nation's budget is under discussion, to create a specific envelope for the fight against adultism, intended to promote paid internships led by the children themselves, in order to better ensure that the specific oppression they suffer is understood. These will aim to awaken parents and, beyond that, all adults, to the toxic relationship that pushed them to have children without asking their opinion.
Today, it is a twenty-year-old Sciences Po student, Pablo Ladam, who tells us about the madness that has taken hold of his school in its fight against "sexist and sexual violence". He does so in a high-quality text, Terreur violette, which is absolutely essential reading and which we all hope to see published soon.
The university, supposed to be a place of neutrality and scientific rigor, is drifting towards a worrying politicization, as evidenced by the recent motion of the CEPED (CNRS), which adopts a militant pro-Palestinian position. This position compromises the credibility of research and instrumentalizes the social sciences for ideological purposes. The academic institution must preserve its independence and avoid becoming a vector of political agenda.
It is from Scotland that we receive news that a child is suffering from "species dysphoria" and identifies with a wolf. Oncologist Jacques Robert expands on this theme.
On September 17, the university popularization site TheConversation published an article by our colleague Albin Wagener (“professor of discourse analysis and communication” at the Catholic Institute of Lille) entitled “Moral panics: the fatal weapon of the extreme right”. The illustration chosen by the editorial staff is as eloquent as the title: an agit-prop poster declaring “The extreme right speaks to you every day, 24/24”, with the logos of C8 and Europe 1. Let’s add: on TheConversation, it is the extreme left that speaks to us every day, but with an additional advantage: it is not through the voice of journalists but under the cover of academic expertise. Double punishment.
There is a lot of talk these days about "academic freedom", but it is mostly to say stupid things, which a little common sense and knowledge of the issue should be enough to dispel.
The period of Le Mars sees a proliferation of job advertisements for recruitment in higher education establishments of which the INSPE are now part in complete autonomy. The word "autonomy" is undoubtedly inappropriate when talking about the civil service, as some believe themselves to be freed by the performative magic of the word from any accountability to the public that finances them. Through our unprecedented mobilization, we have managed to force the administration to back down!
Interview with Xavier-Laurent Salvador: In about ten years, wokeism, intersectionality, decolonialism, racialism and all their combinations have entered public life. What are we talking about? What are their roots?
Secularism? A difficult term to understand. So we asked Catherine Kintzler to enlighten us on the notion of secularism. Catherine Kintzler is
Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.
Heretics is a political podcast that combines interviews and debates. This summer we will publish the shows from the first season here. Is it possible, today, to leave
The American and international media have recently echoed a barely conceivable piece of news: the Davis County School District (95 schools for 72000 students, very close to Salt Lake City, Utah) had just announced its decision to ban lower school levels (5-13 years old) from accessing the venerable King James Bible (1611), the very one on which George Washington took the oath on April 30, 1789.
“Identify and challenge the ways in which mathematics is used to defend capitalist, imperialist, and racist views. Expose students to examples of people who have used mathematics as a means of resistance. Provide learning opportunities that use mathematics as a means of resistance.”…. Shall we continue?
Gender, the cultural construction of biological sex, has become central to social and political studies, significantly influencing the ideology of late capitalism.
The Little Mermaid Observatory has criticized parliamentary moves to prosecute therapists who are reluctant to transition, citing the risk of an authoritarian transactivist ideology over the medical profession and education.
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?
The work proposed by Pauline Arrighi remains one of the most relevant and useful in these times of great ideological confusion. The approach should even be commended.
The book published by François Rastier at Intervalles seems "small", but it is of an incomparable density both in the number of points addressed and in the breadth of the author's culture, which takes us into the labyrinths of the occult to arrive at state propaganda in favor of transgenderism.
While the scientific foundations of the notion of gender are being questioned, the author has chosen to shift his point of view towards the esoteric and astrological sources of gender. Petite mystique du genre, by François Rastier, was published on September 15, 2023 by Intervalles.
Wokism was born on American campuses. It has spread to England and the European continent. Will its cradle become its tomb? Here are some exclusive excerpts from Sylvie Perez's book, "Ending Wokism."
A review of Nora Bussigny's infiltration reporting among the wokes.
A comic strip supported by the Ministry of Higher Education explains how to identify a reliable scientific study. However, the portrayal of the charlatan as an old white scientist sparks debate about stereotypes and the message conveyed. Finally, the comic strip raises a broader question: why does science education seem to be neglected in favor of other educational priorities?
Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.
Contemporary identity ideologies profoundly influence psychological practices by imposing a hypermoralization of social life, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a space of ideological validation rather than neutral analysis. Psychologist Florent Poupart warns us against this development, which is accompanied by a growing distrust of psychic life in its unconscious dimension, in favor of an ideal of transparency and moral purity.
“We are losing science,” warns Weiss, who sees this politicization as an existential threat. “When remains are buried or destroyed, when museums censor their exhibits, there is nothing left to study. Unlike other disciplines, once anthropological data is lost, it cannot be recreated.”
Elizabeth Weiss nevertheless remains attached to the idea of an anthropology anchored in science and the exploration of the past. But her testimony, opposing scientific rigor to identity pretensions, suggests an uncertain future for a discipline in search of meaning.
To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."
After a damning diagnosis of the intellectual disaster that Wokism represents in the West, Tavoillot devotes his book to avenues of reconstruction. He identifies universal practices that he calls "seven pillars of conviviality": shared meals, couple relationships, intergenerational transmission, religious practices, among others. These pillars, deeply rooted in human experience, are considered as levers to restore an authentic social bond.
We are the advocates of the dead, not because we hear their voices, but because we refuse to subject knowledge to seductive illusions. Science cannot be a field of "exceptional" experiments; it is, above all, a space of intellectual demand.
In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one's own, and to test one's virtues, one's body, one's fantasies, one's hopes and one's ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists, but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!
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.
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".
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).
There is no point in trying to convince fanatics, emblems of the worst that religions can produce. No: those who need convincing are those of our compatriots who have not yet understood what war is being waged against the Republic and democracy – a war whose daily bread is social networks. And to better fight it, we need to name it: this war is the one waged by Islamofascism. This is how Daniel Cohn-Bendit had the intelligence and courage to describe the perpetrators of the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015. And it was yet another Islamofascist who just tried to slit Salman Rushdie's throat.
Since independence, the colonial past has often been denounced by the regimes in power; but after three generations, the liberated peoples have the right to demand accountability from them, or at least to no longer be satisfied with invoking the past: this was the meaning of the remarkable essay by Hélé Béji, Nous, décolonisés (Arléa, 2008).
Background. Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter requires neutrality during sports competitions so that they are protected from political or religious divisions. For the same reason, the French Football Federation prohibits "any sign or outfit that ostentatiously displays political, philosophical, religious or union affiliation". However, in November, a group of self-proclaimed "hijab women" footballers, formed two years ago as a "Muslim women's football union", brought an action before the Council of State to have this article repealed. The request was rejected but it continues to be examined on the merits.
Pregnancy for all!
Pregnancy for all is a fundamental right that allows the personal and family development of each human being.
Enabling everyone to have the opportunity to have a child is a matter of equality and social justice.
Every human should have the right to decide about their reproductive life, without being judged or discriminated against.
Promoting pregnancy for all means defending human rights and building a more inclusive society that respects diversity.
Sodomy: try it, you'll love it.
Sodomy has been a joy to humans since they began.
And yet, it remains negatively connoted and a subject of insults.
Isn't it time to correct a culture that makes it invisible and a cinema that promotes the missionary position when the anus should be considered a "universal vagina" (Andrea Long Chu)!
Let's demand scenes of happy sodomy in contemporary cinema and, thanks to AI, the correction of classic scenes, relics of heteronormativity and binarity from a bygone era!
Brussels-Central Park, NY via an underground?
Who hasn't heard of the satanic orgies that supposedly took place in the basement of a pizzeria in Central Park, New York?
Who hasn't heard about the alleged links between Bill Gates and the Illuminati?
Now, Bill Gates was seen entering a Brussels sewer.
Could there be a secret underground passage used by the Belgian Illuminati to participate in New York orgies? A secret underground passage that the mainstream media is hiding from us.
We ask the question. Let's keep our eyes open!
The issue of religious symbols has generated a lot of discussion and highlighted the enemies of religious freedom.
We Pastafarians have intimately experienced that our deep faith increases kindness, empathy, creativity, compassion and altruism in our interactions with the public.
Driving our commitment to serving others, it gives us the strength and motivation to persevere through difficult times and to always keep in mind the well-being of those we serve.
Showing our faith, including at work, is showing our devotion and proclaiming respect for differences in an inclusive secularism.
Classical academic disciplines such as sociology or anthropology, whose raison d'être is to dissect all aspects of the phenomenon being studied, have been replaced by "studies": race studies, gender studies, colonial studies, etc.
Hair discrimination in our country, nicknamed “hairy Gaul”…
When theatre productions advocate woke ideology, even if it means betraying their author...
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."
A study day on the legal issue was fortunately interrupted by the University users while contested professors were speaking to defend the transphobic idea that gender identity should be registered in the civil registry. Students, visibly aware of the legitimate problems of inclusive society, then simply armed with their courage and a few innocent projectiles - the proof: they are sold in the DIY or paint section of stores - organized a happening in order to disrupt the expected course of hate speech professed by these old-fashioned intellectuals who can't be stopped by shame. One of the speakers, realizing his mistake, made amends and his forgiveness was signified to him by the redemptive mark of colored baptismal water. On the other hand, a reactionary activist who was denounced by her tailor, aggressive and who was there to support the transphobic activists, was roundly neutralized by the youth. No one was injured that day, which is fortunate because the youth probably narrowly escaped perishing under the repeated blows of the hetero-patriarchal battering ram.
It has become necessary, in this demanding 21st century, to rethink oncology, around three major directions, as will be recommended shortly in the British Woke Medical Journal: declusivism,
In June, Claude Tremblay published the first gender-neutral version of Recherche au Québec, in his post-binary publishing house, Intersexions. An undertaking that promises to be highly controversial.
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