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Ideas imported from US campuses are said to threaten French identity, but radical French thinkers have long inspired Americans, and vice versa
A French flag flies over the entrance of the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018 (AFP)
Why are the French up in arms about critical theories and progressive ideas from US campuses and protest movements? What have we done right on US campuses, and in such historic events as the sustained course of the indigenous, civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements, to make the custodians of French imperial racism uncomfortable?
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By Norimitsu Onishi
Feb. 9, 2021
PARIS The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.
The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron.
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.
Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.