Feb. 11, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
06:56
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| From the Daily Mail, out of control woke leftism from the United States is a threat to France because it quote-unquote attacks the nation's heritage and identity, French politicians and intellectuals say. | |
| Prominent intellectuals and academics in France France. | |
| Have voiced concern that out-of-control leftism, this is not from a left-wing source, to say the least, and cancel culture from the United States is threatening French identity. | |
| They are arguing that American ideas on race, gender, post-colonialism, especially those coming from U.S. universities, are undermining French society and are an attack on French heritage. | |
| Well, I would presume the American left would regard France as a white supremacist society just like the United States. | |
| Think about its colonialism in Africa and elsewhere, non-white people. | |
| The collection of intellectuals arguing that France is being contaminated by the leftism of America. | |
| Again, the source is the Daily Mail. | |
| Was buoyed on last year after French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to side with them. | |
| In a speech in October on the, quote, fight against separatism, unquote, Macron warned against leaving the intellectual debate to others as he cautioned of the certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States. | |
| The left poisons everything it touches, and that includes other countries, obviously. | |
| His education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquet, also warned in October that there is a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities. | |
| The debate came to a head this week. | |
| After the new director of the Paris Opera, Alexander Neif, released a 66-page report on diversity at the Paris Opera in which he vowed to diversify staff and to ban blackface. | |
| It came after five black members of the ballet company circulated an open letter among the Paris Opera's 1,800 employees last summer calling for greater diversity. | |
| Neff was targeted for the decision by far-right leader Marine Le Pen and by French newspaper Le Monde, which said he, quote, soaked up American culture for 10 years while he worked in Toronto. | |
| That's interesting that Le Monde even attacked the head of the French Opera. | |
| Le Monde is... | |
| At the very least liberal, it has the prestige in France that the New York Times undeservedly has in the United States. | |
| This month also saw the publication of a book by social scientists Stéphane Beud and Gérard Noiriel in which they claimed that race is a bulldozer that destroys other subjects. | |
| They added to the New York Times that they did not believe race should not be studied as an academic subject in France as the secular government does not recognize it. | |
| It follows tension over protests against police violence last summer in France, sparked as they were in the U.S. by the death in police custody of George Floyd. | |
| By the way... | |
| You can tell whether a writer cares about truth or not in the way they describe the death of George Floyd. | |
| They say murdered. | |
| They are abusing the term journalist. | |
| They don't know at all that he was murdered. | |
| They don't even know that he was killed by the officer, and they certainly don't know that his death, if he was killed, was caused by racism. | |
| So they correctly put it, the death in police custody of George Floyd. | |
| Well, this is a very interesting article that they feel that the poison is coming from the American West. | |
| Historian Pierre-André Tagif argued... | |
| That the American-style black question was a totally artificial importation to France. | |
| He said it was all driven... | |
| Ready? | |
| Are you ready? | |
| I have a smile. | |
| That a French intellectual would say this. | |
| It was all driven by hatred of the West as a white civilization. | |
| That's correct. | |
| It's hatred of the West. | |
| That's correct. | |
| Hey, hey, ho, ho. | |
| Western Civ has got to go. | |
| Jesse Jackson, 30 years ago or so, marching at Stanford with other leftists. | |
| Straight white male, that's the culprit to condemn and the enemy to eliminate. | |
| This is from a French professor in France. | |
| I have said now for some time that it's a phenomenon. | |
| It's the English-speaking countries that are sickest. | |
| I don't know the reason. | |
| I hate not knowing the reason. | |
| My big passion is to understand why. | |
| Why Australia, New Zealand? | |
| The United Kingdom, Canada, the United States have more suppression of free speech than other Western countries. | |
| Why is that? | |
| People could be jailed. | |
| People were imprisoned for being on the Capitol lawn. | |
| People have their house invaded by armed FBI agents. | |
| For being at the Capitol? | |
| Did this happen to any of the Antifa or BLM rioters? |
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