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‘Woke’ American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say – The New York Times

PARIS The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France s intellectual and cultural heritage.

The threat? Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States, said President Emmanuel Macron.

French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism are undermining their society. There s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities, warned Mr. Macron s education minister.

Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.

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Pitted against them is a younger, more diverse guard that considers these theories as tools to understanding the willful blind spots of an increasingly diverse nation that still recoils at the mention of race, has yet to come to terms with its colonial past and often waves away the concerns of minorities as identity politics.

via www.nytimes.com

Nietzsche probably said something about this sort of thing, but I don’t know what.