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Brivael Le Pogam: The French owe everyone an apology for the scourge of wokism

An entire generation has learned to deconstruct and has never learned to build

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I would like to apologize, on behalf of all French people, for having given birth to French Theory (which gave rise to the worst of all ideological excrement: wokism).

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We have given the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins after 1968, we gave the world Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who, in the elegance of the French language, built the ideological weapon that now paralyzes the West.

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What they did needs to be understood. Michel Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that power relations disguised as knowledge are all there is. That science, reason, justice, medical........

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