I recently heard a British historian make that claim, but it seems to me the French are doing better than a lot of the western world in opposing Wokeism. Not that it’s all rosy, of course. But there are some signs of hope. <\/p>\n
See Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different<\/a>, which includes this great quote. <\/p>\n A black actress is supposed to be anti-colonialist. But just as I’m not obliged as a black actress to play a cleaning lady or a prostitute, I’m also not obliged as a black person to be ‘anti-colonial.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How dare<\/i> she have her own opinions! Get back in your place! <\/p>\n I never thought I would say this, but maybe there’s a glimmer of hope coming from France, where their “most prominent public intellectuals have taken positions against” wokeism. <\/p>\n It’s still bad. There’s still a lot of idiot ideology in the schools. A lot of people are still more concerned about things that happened centuries ago (colonialism) and not about what’s happening right now. But it sounds as if the French might be fighting back better than we are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently heard a British historian make that claim, but it seems to me the French are doing better than a lot of the western world in opposing Wokeism. Not that it’s all rosy, of course. But there are some signs of hope. See Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different, which includes this great … Continue reading “Are all bad ideas French?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}