There is a belief in some quarters of the Anglosphere that the French are too wise to succumb to what is known across the Channel as ‘wokisme’. It’s true that in recent weeks Emmanuel Macron and his education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, have expressed their concern about what the latter described as a battle against ‘an intellectual matrix from American universities’. But the battle has already been won by the far-left in France who are largely in control of all forms of education.
The front cover of this week’s edition of the conservative magazine, Valeurs Actuelles, says it all:
‘Universities: laboratory of the lunatics’
Inside, the magazine describes how radical feminism, decolonisation and cancel culture are rife on the country’s campuses. As if to prove the magazine’s point, the leader of France’s National Union of Students this week admitted in a radio interview that white students are barred from attending some university events.
The battle has already been won by the far-left in France
As in Britain, the ideology that began in universities is now spreading to schools and wider society in France, as two recent surveys revealed.
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