Every morning, Nicolas Beytout, the director of the newspaper "L'Opinion" analyzes the political news and gives us his point of view.
This Monday, he returns to the controversy provoked by the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal with his recent outing on "Islamo-leftism".
Nicolas Beytout believes that the minister is right to persevere.
Despite the controversy that it had sparked, Frédérique Vidal decided to maintain its request for an investigation into Islamo-leftism at the university ...
"Yes, and she deserves a lot, the Minister of Higher Education, to face and stand up to the flood of criticism from the left and hatred from social networks. Her fault? To have said out loud what Numerous testimonies have already stated for months: in French universities, freedom of thought is threatened, and it is by the very people who vociferated against the minister.
Sorry, but it is they, those who criticize Frédérique Vidal, who denounce on the contrary a threatening ministerial approach for freedom
Yes, it is a classic in this kind of debate: those who cry out the loudest in the name of freedom are in reality those who threaten it the most and want to be left alone in their enterprise of manipulation.
At the university, an increasingly powerful current proposes to look at all the teaching under the angle of the questioning of colonialism, with a prism of races, to which is added the question of gender.
Intersectionality is wreaking havoc ...
Intersectionality?
Yes, it is the act of analyzing the world and all subject matter through race, gender and social class.
It gives a very partial view on science and education.
This is what Frédérique Vidal denounces and this is what she wants to analyze.
Except that the Conference of University Presidents took it badly: it recalls "that research is not responsible for the ills of society, but that it must analyze them".
Which is perfectly correct.
But on condition that those who teach gender or race theories do not prevent other teachers and researchers from continuing to see the world as they see fit.
But that is the whole question: universities are in the process of coming under the control of these prophets of exclusion, who are beginning to prohibit any expression that diverges from theirs.
It is also a very political divide, very sharp left-right.
The left, especially the far left, is often Islamo-leftist: it sees Islam as the religion of a minority oppressed by the dominant class and religion.
And it often makes an electoral agreement with their representatives.
We see that a lot in some mayors, like in Trappes, for example.
And the presidential majority, how is it situated?
It is divided.
Between the right and the left of the Republic in March, of course.
This gives a real cacophony, and an impression of hesitation on the part of the Head of State between the somewhat theoretical defense of the absolute autonomy of universities and the defense of freedom of thought.
However, he will have to make a religion. "