In the interests of a real freedom, of speech and of conscience,
we stand with French educators under threat from this ideologically-driven attack by politicians, commentators and select academics.

opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-…
We are concerned about the clear double standards regarding academic freedom in the attack on critical race and decolonial scholarship mounted by the manifesto.
In opposition to the actual tenets of academic freedom, the demands it makes portray any teaching and research into
portray any teaching and research into the history or sociology of French colonialism and institutionalised racism as an attack on academic freedom.
In contrast, falsely and dangerously linking these scholarly endeavours to Islamic extremism and holding scholars responsible for brutal acts of murder, as do the signatories of the Manifesto, is presented as consistent with academic freedom.

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#FreedomOfSpeech
#Hebdo

Some freedom of speech
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French President Jacques Chirac condemned "overt provocations" which could inflame passions. " ImageImage
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By @TrevorPTweets: "The greatest tragedy in all of this is that the gurus of wokedom '

What amazes me is that y'all were supporting the same gurus of wokedom' the Queer Theory Activists
against a minority within a minority who you framed as reactionary & hateful extremists Image
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Ages 3+ Gender is the Enemy
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French liberalism as a rationale for the brutal colonisation of millions of peoples across Asia and Africa – what it called its “mission civilisatrice” (civilising mission). This violence is as much part of French history as its revolutionary triad
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It is only the latter, however, that is ever mentioned as France’s contribution to modernity.
There is seldom a reckoning with the dark underbelly of liberalism, and the unparalleled violence that was, and continues to be, meted out to its historic Others.
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I assured him I wouldn't hold his colour..."
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