Nicolas Sarkozy associates the words "niggers" and "apes" and is accused of racism
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a promotional tour for his book "Le Temps des Tempêtes".
Here, in Ajaccio on July 24, 2020. Pascal POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
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Nicolas Sarkozy finds himself accused of racism after remarks made during an interview on Thursday evening September 10 in the Daily show.
Wanting to criticize “political correctness”, the former French president made an association of ideas between the words “negroes” and “apes” arousing the indignation of the left.
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It is by wanting to denounce the hold of “
political correctness
” that
Nicolas Sarkozy
is tripping up.
"
But this will of the elites who pinch their noses, who are like monkeys and listen to no one… Do we have the right to say monkey
?
Because ... We no longer have the right to say the ... What do we say
?
"The ten little soldiers"
now
?
Is that it
?
Yeah ... She's making the company progress
!
He said ironically.
The former head of state mentions the deletion of the word “
nègre
” in
the new translation of Agatha Christie's novel
“
The ten little niggers
”.
But it is his association of ideas with the word “
monkey
” that makes part of the political class jump.
This demonstrates "
a
racism
without a mask
" judges the boss of the Socialists Olivier Faure, while for Ségolène Royal, this slippage is "
unfortunately in line with his lamentable
Dakar speech
" of 2007
, where he said that "
l 'African man
' was '
not sufficiently entered into history
'.
So a former President of the French Republic spontaneously associates monkeys with "niggers" ... racism without a mask.
🤮 https://t.co/nWbNx2t47p
Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) September 10, 2020
Faced with this wave of indignation, former or former ministers of Nicolas Sarkozy are rushing to his aid.
Like Rachida Dati, for whom it is unimaginable that the former President could "
have an ounce of racism
".
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