Wokism: advance or threat?

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Black Lives Matter protest in Strasbourg, eastern France, June 14, 2020 © PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

The concept is still unknown, and yet it is more and more commented on: wokism, a term originating from the United States, designates a state of awakening (“woke”) and of alert in the face of the oppression that weighs on people. people from ethnic, sexual, religious minorities ...

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And if wokism is also commented on today, it is because it is the subject of a vast campaign of criticism.

Thus, last week in France, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer launched a "Laboratory of the Republic" intended in particular to fight against wokism, denounced as a "thought of fragmentation which would be contrary to the republican ideal ”.

What does this opposition mean?

Should we be concerned about wokism?

What does this debate say about our society?

With :

- Réjane Sénac

, political scientist, CNRS research director at the Sciences Po Political Research Center, author of 

- Beligh Nabli

, academic and co-founder of “

” and columnist for Citizenweb

- Pierre Valentin

, author for the 

(Fondapol) of two notes on Woke ideology, “Woke

” and “

”.

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