OBSERVATORY

OF UNIVERSITY ETHICS

OBSERVATORY

OF UNIVERSITY ETHICS

Academics who simply document 'wokeism' at university

“KNOWLEDGE TO ACT” – OUR MOTTO

When Wokism bites its tail

Claudio Rubiliani

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.

When intimidation replaces debate: support for Fabrice Balanche

Observers Collective

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.

When medicine forgets not to harm – “The Hippocratic Sermon” by Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson

Emmanuelle Henin

In "The Hippocratic Sermon," Caroline Éliacheff and Céline Masson denounce the ideological excesses of transaffirmative medicine, particularly among minors. These practices are contrary to traditional medical ethics and cause 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.

The Sum of All Wokeisms: Cyborg Dogs and Queer Antispeciesism

Mikhail Kostylev

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 Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin

Emmanuelle Henin

In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed by intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle

Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler

Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Linguist, President of LAIC

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Public universities: the invisible pillar of higher education sacrificed

French public universities, which enroll more than 70% of higher education students, fulfill an essential mission with far fewer resources than the private sector, while relying heavily on state funding. Yet, they suffer from a disconnect between research and teaching, low professionalization, and a lack of institutional recognition, undermining their central role in educating young people and upholding the promise of republican equality.

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Wokeism at university

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.

To achieve these goals, we:

Let us individually support teachers, researchers and students faced with attacks on academic freedom or ideological pressure, through advice, expertise and targeted actions;
Let us conduct in-depth investigations into ideological deviations, attacks on scientific neutrality and ethical issues that undermine the university, by publishing rigorous and documented reports;
Let us inform and raise awareness among the general public, institutions and political decision-makers about issues related to university ethics, in particular through analyses, debates and publications accessible to all.

These three axes – individual support, analytical research and public awareness – structure our action and allow us to defend a university at the service of knowledge and society. See our authors

The 2023 report, our analyses in open access...

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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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“The Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin

In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed through intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle Hénin.

Emmanuelle Henin March 19, 2025

Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler March 18, 2025

Book review of “The Damned of the Sea: Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” by Camille Schmoll

In "The Damned of the Sea," Camille Schmoll analyzes the journey of migrant women in the Mediterranean, highlighting the violence they experience, the obstacles of migration policies, and their quest for autonomy through in-depth field research. She deconstructs preconceived ideas about the feminization of migration and highlights the role of digital technology as a space for resistance and identity reconstruction.

Mireille Quivy March 17, 2025

An Apocalypse of Nihilism – a critical look at a revealing exhibition at the BnF

The National Library of France is organizing a major exhibition on the Apocalypse, exploring its original meaning as "revelation" rather than the end of the world. The event, structured in three parts, offers an immersion into John's text, an analysis of the Apocalypse in art, and a contemporary reflection on the post-catastrophe, sparking controversy over an underlying ideology.

Carlos Henriques-Pereira March 13, 2025

Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on March 5, 2025

The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational organization founded in 1928, seeks to impose its theocratic vision through methodical indoctrination and adaptation to local contexts.
Taking advantage of Western freedoms, the brotherhood is gradually carrying out Islamization by targeting young people and infiltrating associative and political circles. Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler given at the Hauts-de-France regional council in Lille after its cancellation at the University of Lille.

Ivan Burel March 9, 2025

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.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador February 28st, 2025

The Erostratos of Good or the arsonists of memory

Since 2020, calls have been growing in the West to erase or rename public symbols deemed to be linked to a colonial, racist and slave-owning past.
This movement, amplified by contemporary demands such as those of Black Lives Matter, seeks to purge the public space of any reference considered problematic.
Ivan Burel denounces the Manichean approach and the moral anachronism of this phenomenon, comparable to the Roman damnatio memoriae, which risks distorting collective memory and dividing society.

Ivan Burel February 24st, 2025

Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10

A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.

Claudio Rubiliani February 24st, 2025

The editorials

Studies, a new Olympic discipline

There was the first medalist for the refugee team, Cameroonian boxer Cindy Ngamba; the selfie of the South and North Korean table tennis players, united on the podium; and the Australian Rachel Gunn, who distinguished herself with a break dance performance that earned her no points but rather a flood of jeers. It is very likely that she consciously provoked this fiasco to put herself forward in the many media outlets that reported on it.

Pauline Arrighi August 19, 2024

The editorials

To end the nonsense about academic freedom

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.

Nathalie Heinich August 1, 2024

The editorials

National Assembly: family photo in ethnic color?

At Mediapart, we never run out of absurdities. Their latest enormity, dated July 10, could pass for the gag of the summer: the photos of

Claudio Rubiliani July 19, 2024

The editorials

Scientific journals at the service of a political party?

Between the two rounds of the 2024 legislative elections, a platform entitled “Reviews in struggle: the social sciences against the extreme right” was made public…

Nicolas Weill-Parot July 9, 2024

apolitical

Facing the RN: let's get things straight

The supporters of left-wing identity ideologies – those that we have been fighting on this site for three and a half years, under the name of “wokism” – are trying hard to assimilate our approach to “the right” or even to the “extreme right”… Discover Nathalie Heinich’s editorial.

Nathalie Heinich July 4, 2024

The editorials

Badinter-market

We learn with amazement that the teaching staff of a small Savoyard college refused to allow this college to take the name of Robert Badinter...

Jacques-Robert June 29, 2024

identity drifts

The impact of ideological discourses on minors

The rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Courbevoie in the 92 department on Saturday June 15, 2024, should leave no one indifferent...

Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff June 25, 2024

The editorials

Red-handed Narcissus

"The collective imagination forged in human societies in the 20th and 21st centuries finds its source in part in the evocative power of images broadcast first in the written press and then especially in Mondio-vision in front of hundreds of millions of viewers." Read the editorial by Joseph Ciccolini.

Joseph Ciccolini June 18, 2024

In the spotlight

Mapping anti-Enlightenment movements

This mapping attempts to organize in a coherent manner the major ideological currents which oppose modernity on its two principles, autonomy (a common world subject to criticism) and sovereignty (a democratic society).

Common Places (Collective) June 15, 2023

In the spotlight

Segregation: Why a Minister Shouldn't Say That

Alexandre Portier, LR MP for the Rhône and member of the Higher Council of Programs, reacts to the use of the term “school segregation” by the Minister of National Education.

Alexandre Portier June 8, 2023

In the spotlight

Some thoughts on the philosophy of antiracism

It is to restore to this notion of "color blindness", of racial "color blindness", all its nobility and its humanist scope that I would like to tackle here.

Bruno Chaouat June 8, 2023

In the spotlight

Freedom of conscience and religious freedom

Texts such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe recognise freedom of thought, conscience and religion as fundamental rights. However, over time there has been a semantic shift that has led to these rights being restricted or neglected.

Martine Cerf June 5, 2023

In the spotlight

Secularism is still Voltaire's fault

In December 2022, Ifop reported that 56% of public secondary school teachers said they had already self-censored their teaching, to avoid any incident triggered in the name of religious or philosophical beliefs.

Francois Rastier June 4, 2023

secularism

Can you imagine restricting Dominique Schnapper?

Article one of the 1958 Constitution explains that the Republic is indivisible, secular, democratic and social. Secularism is therefore one of those principles that require, above all, a legal organization. Founded on the principle of separation (public sphere, private sphere) which guarantees freedom of conscience and worship, it is weakened today by the conjunction of politics and religion under the auspices of a galloping wokism that agrees with people like Norman Ajari in declaring that it is at once an "apartheid" measure, or even "Islamophobic, discriminatory, unjust and far-right."

Xavier-Laurent Salvador 22 May 2023

In the spotlight

The intersectional left, a godsend for the far right

Wouldn't the totalizing project of inclusion aim at a form of closure? We know that the strength of mythical thought lies in particular in its closure: myths are characterized by constant references between all semantic domains that allow thought to be locked in a totalization that is as seductive as it is illusory.

Francois Rastier 15 May 2023

feature articles

The West at the Foot of the Wall

The fact is obvious: Islamism, this Islam on the offensive, banal or warlike, spectacular or diffuse, is in Europe, for a long time and in all its forms. It is spreading and developing. The French territory, its institutions and, increasingly, its populations are stakeholders in this atypical world war in progress.

Common Places (Collective) 9 May 2023

In the spotlight

How ‘conversion therapy’ became an LGBT+ political weapon: investigation

When a law passed on a misunderstanding allows the censorship of opponents of transgender ideology and religions"

Mikhail Kostylev 25 September 2023

In the spotlight

Conference interrupted in Assas: the objective press finally!

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.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador June 25, 2023

In the spotlight

Transactivist Violence and Timely Misgendering

When transactivism goes wrong, the press is silent.

Mikhail Kostylev 1 April 2023

BigNews

Aspects of Republican Transactivism, from the Ministry of Education to the Council of State

In addition to interministerial associations and delegations, several ministries disseminate gender ideology and particularly transactivism, notably that of National Education. For example, the former National Institute of Pedagogical Research, which became the Canopé Network, recently invited schoolchildren to “deconstruct kinship”, while researching the meaning of the prefixes “hetero”, “homo”, “trans”, “cis”, “inter” and “bi” — proof that ancient languages have not said their last word. It offers teachers a webinar on “the fight against LGBTIphobia” where we suddenly learn that “secular heritage” is “potentially LGBTIphobic”.

Francois Rastier 13th January 2023

In the spotlight

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.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador 19th November 2024

Wokism

Is Wokeism in trouble?

The Grand Inquisitors of the inclusive-diverse sect know no borders: the proof! Note: The Bordeaux Rectorate has suspended for three

Daniele Cosson-Schere 27 September 2024

mood(s)

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.

Jacques-Robert 23 September 2024

In the spotlight

Olympic universalism put to the test by communitarianism: the example of breakdancing

Certainly Raygunn's athletic performance is bad, was worthless. But, invalidating her presence on the pretext that she is "white" is a racist, communitarian postulate that irrevocably closes the Olympic mirage.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador 10 September 2024

In the spotlight

"I suffer therefore I am"

Pascal Bruckner speaks of a process of heroization of the victim and of indefinite extension of the victim field where even "the privileged can play the damned".

Pascal Perrineau 9 September 2024

American epistemology

When Sylvie Laurent uses sociology to deny the existence of poor whites in the United States (and in France)

Sylvie Laurent compiles in her book almost all the most hollow concepts of contemporary sociology.

Laurent Otttavi 6 September 2024

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After the big night, the early mornings that disappoint

Review of Nellie Bowles' book Morning after the Revolution, Penguin Random House, 2024 by Jacques Robert.

Jacques-Robert August 12, 2024

In the spotlight

PIR policy selected at the French Academy in Rome

Thus sacrificing to the spirit of the times - or, according to some, to an ideology that has become dominant and to which it would be appropriate to conform - the Académie de France in Rome now seems to often give the advantage, in its selection process, to projects that authorize themselves by questioning gender norms (and in particular "hetero-patriarchy"), by criticizing racism (designated as "systemic" or inherent in all institutions of Western societies, while anti-Semitism remains, in these approaches, and unsurprisingly, as a blind spot) or even by criticizing, against the backdrop of a global ecological crisis invested with an apocalyptic dimension, "extractive" and "neo-liberal" capitalism.

Ludovic Dillenseger July 19, 2024

In the spotlight

The “glass ceiling” in research: the mystery solved?

These explanations would benefit from having the echo they deserve. While we obviously find studies reporting recruitment or advancement bias among researchers (sometimes also in the opposite direction to that usually suspected), it seems that overall in France we can explain the disparities only by the choices made and scientific productivity, namely the fact of applying and publishing [(Mairesse & Pezzoni, 2015); (Bosquet, Combes, & Garcia-Panalosa, 2014)], a differential which itself is explained, at least in part, by family commitments. Overall, by looking closely at the data, it is clear that the mystery of the "glass ceiling" seems to have been elucidated.

Cyrille Godonou March 4, 2022

In the spotlight

Protecting the children of the Republic's school against any ideological manipulation

It is time to protect the children of the school of the Republic from intersectional ideology, identity and racial manipulations and decolonial pedagogy, particularly within teacher training and in the university institution. It is now a question of alerting public opinion to the consequences of this pedagogical fanaticism not only in the human and social sciences at the university, but also on the need to protect the children of the school of the Republic against all those who would like to establish statistics on the race (sic) and sexuality of children from primary school, based on the frameworks of intersectionality and identity and decolonial drifts. The Masters training models are not spared from this ideological infiltration.

charles coutel March 13, 2021

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Tract #12 Let's Apologize for Our White Privilege

Let us do penance for this disgusting whiteness that afflicts us.

Let's condemn our parents for making us born white.

Let us repent of this world that we, the privileged, have created. This world filled with nauseating white supremacy.

Let us deeply regret this white privilege and ask forgiveness from our racialized sisters and brothers.

Woke-Machine March 26, 2025

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Tract #11 Let's Deconstruct Mathematics

Let's deconstruct mathematics
Mathematics is based on abstract principles that do not correspond to social realities. Worse, they make inequalities invisible.

1 racialized person + 1 white person, do they make 2 equal humans? Of course not!

Mathematical equality in no way reflects the inequalities and individual differences present in our society.

There is an urgent need to deconstruct mathematics, to question these fixed norms and to bring about a more critical reflection on power relations and existing discrimination.

Woke-Machine March 19, 2025

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Tract #10 – Kevin.e feels like a woman today

Kevin.e feels like a woman today
In any case, it is essential to accept that a man feels like a woman and vice versa because the recognition of gender identity is crucial for everyone's well-being and mental health.

By denying feelings and experiences, by refusing their legitimacy, we contribute to stigmatization and social exclusion.

Accepting and respecting everyone's gender identity helps to build a fluid and more inclusive society.

Let everyone be authentic and feel free in their gender identity.

Woke-Machine March 12, 2025

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Tract #9 – Pregnant at 80? It’s never too late to fully realize your potential

Pregnant at 80? It's never too late to fully realize your potential
Today, thanks to advances in medicine, there is no age or time limit to fulfilling one's dreams and fully realizing oneself.
Being pregnant at 80, giving yourself this gift, giving yourself a baby, is a personal and legitimate choice that can bring happiness and fulfillment to a woman.
Every individual has the inalienable right to lead his or her life in accordance with his or her personal aspirations and desires, free from the constraints of a rigid society and outdated conventions.

Woke-Machine March 5, 2025

In the spotlight

For equal spelling

From now on, let no French statement be equal: a sentence must have as many masculine words as feminine mounts! Come on, let's jump. We will therefore take care not to make sentences that are exclusively masculine ("Ciao Pantin") or exclusively feminine ("Chattehaute Pantine"), but we will take care to alternate the two with caution and respect.

Xavier-Laurent Salvador 13th January 2023

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When theology returns to the university: what the “Meetings on ecological professions” at the IEP of Grenoble reveal

Are our students ready to give up such stays to bring their actions "in line" with their values? Are they ready to launch a call for a boycott of Erasmus? Will they advocate sober university exchanges, in the style of short circuits, like Grenoble-Chambéry but no further?

Vincent Tournier 23th November 2022

Humor

“Inclusive” theologian, or the Crusader

To expel God from the Bible is already absurd… but less so than the total nonchalance of the manner. Our theologian liquidates a fundamental dogma of his own religion, without explanation… but above all without the slightest inner shudder.

Mikhail Kostylev 14 October 2022

In the spotlight

Chauvophobia!

Just yesterday, I was young and naive: I would mock woke excesses in endless articles, without suspecting that I too would soon be the victim of a terrible social injustice. One dark morning, in my mirror, I saw that age had come… and all my hair had gone.

Mikhail Kostylev 27 September 2022

In the spotlight

Sandrine Rousseau's hunting rifles: the story of a hoax

It's the opening of the hunting season! And some game weighs more than others. On September 21, the first hearing of the trial of Sandrine Rousseau, prosecuted criminally by the National Federation of Hunters, will take place.

Mikhail Kostylev 16 September 2022

Humor

Good single-sex and bad single-sex

The journalist: Your association organizes its meetings in a non-mixed manner, but demands that the toilets be non-gendered... Basically, what difference is there between the

Observers Collective March 25, 2022

In the spotlight

“Feminist realism”

[by Mikhail Kostylev] There are few things I enjoy reading as much as good feminist prose. Politically, the movement often bungles –

Mikhail Kostylev February 19st, 2022

Humor

The Midas of ideology

[by Mikhail Kostylev] "Wokism does not exist", insists Libération, , ... after having nevertheless hailed it as a "concept taken up by Black Live Matters" for

Mikhail Kostylev February 11st, 2022

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