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Michel Onfray, whose last book La resistance au nihilisme has just been published by Grasset, spoke on Sunday in Il ya pas que vie dans la vie , on Europe 1, about the perception of inequalities racialism in French society. According to him, "we are in the process of establishing racialism, that is to say racism, under the pretext of being leftist, progressive and leftist."
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"Today, we are told that a white man is guilty because he is white, that a black man is a victim because he is black," he added to Isabelle Morizet's microphone. According to him, a form of "racism" is taking hold. "There is no reason why black people should be superior to white people," he said.
"We are at the end of the dead end"
This analysis prompts Michel Onfray to say that "we are experiencing extravagant things", that "we are at the end of the dead end". While a wave of anti-racist demonstrations took place in France following the death of George Floyd, Michel Onfray also expressed himself on the absence of sanctions concerning the holding of demonstrations, in the context of the epidemic of coronavirus. "When an interior minister tells us that emotion is above the law, it's something like sixty-eight," he denounced, before adding that "we are not never gone so low in nihilism. "
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Michel Onfray indeed referred to the words of Christophe Castaner, about a demonstration against police violence, Tuesday June 9. "The demonstrations are not (authorized) in fact because there is a decree of the Prime Minister within the framework of the second phase of the deconfinement which prohibits the gatherings of more than ten people. But I believe that the global emotion, which is a healthy emotion on this subject, goes beyond the legal rules that apply, "said the Minister of the Interior on Tuesday June 9 on RMC. He had thus authorized the organization of this demonstration, by calling to "respect the barrier gestures".