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Pierre Valentin: “Michel Wieviorka is a reassurer of the rapidly expanding woke virus”

At the end of August, the sociologist Michel Wieviorka published in L’Express a long analysis to explain that France was very far from being invaded by Wokism, and that the comparisons with the United States made little sense. The text provoked many reactions. Author of two notes on “woke ideology” for the Fondapol think tank, Pierre Valentin, who was quoted by Michel Wieviorka, sent us this response. We publish it in order to keep the debate alive.

Any pandemic will always have its so-called “reassuring” virologists. Faced with the woke virus, we have Michel Wieviorka in France. In a text published by the Express, Mr. Wieviorka deplores the use of “medical metaphors which pathologize social questions rather than tackling them in substance”, and seems to want to attribute the viral metaphor concerning “cancel culture” to the minister of Education. Whoever did me the courtesy of reading it, and I’m very grateful for it, forgets that this analogy came from woke thinkers, not their detractors. Jacques Derrida himself affirmed that one could summarize, by schematizing, “the matrix of all that [qu’il] has done since he began to write “, to a” parasitology, a virology “, a metaphor then taken up by black feminism via Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger in 2016. Do these authors pathologize their own work?

“Our country cannot be used by Pierre Valentin to illustrate a phenomenon considered to be threatening to our culture,” affirms Michel Wieviorka, adding that “those who denounce the hold of” wokism “at the university have few heavy facts or trends strong to report “. It would be to forget the very exhaustive Report on ideological manifestations at university and in research published last May by the Observatory of decolonialism and identity ideologies.

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