“It’s because I’m on the left that I’m no longer on the left”, said Alain Finkielkraut. The philosopher’s old ideological family would do well to hasten to recognize its latest ambassadors before they follow the same path, tired of seeing its historical struggles (and themselves) sacrificed on the altar of moralizing sectarianism. Thus comedian Blanche Gardin, who has never hidden her commitments to the left, to the point of supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election of 2022. On April 20, the actress explained in a committed post, published on her Facebook account , the reasons why she refused to participate in the next season of the show LOL: who laughs comes out!. A kind of “organic” reality show broadcast on Amazon Prime featuring ten French actors, such as Pierre Niney or Leïla Bekhti, supposed to contain their laughter for six hours to try to win 50,000 euros for the account of the association of their choice.
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“I would be embarrassed at the corners […] to be paid 200,000 euros for a day’s work even if I lose at your game, when the charity of my choice would win 50,000 euros, that is to say 4 times less, and again, only if I win”, explains Blanche Gardin, before assassinating with dashes the company of Jeff Bezos, “which does not pay its taxes in France” and “emits 55.8 million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year […] only with its data centers”.
Naively, this pamphlet was predicted to have a certain success on the left, as the axes that cross it (global warming, social justice, criticism of the Gafam) are dear to it. The applause of Clémentine Autain and Fabien Roussel however went unnoticed, eclipsed by the preachers of morality whose priorities are now elsewhere… the feminist who came out [e] with a sexual aggressor and defended him”, or even the elegant “bastard”.
The comedian actually had the audacity to defend his companion, the American comedian Louis CK (accused during the #MeToo wave of having engaged in sexual exhibition in front of actresses) and even to support the author Bastien Vivès, after the cancellation of his exhibition at the Angoulême Festival.
Worse: in his series broadcast on Canal +, The best version of myself, the comedian made fun of the excesses of our society by playing the role of an actress now a follower of naturopathy, stopping humor to embark on personal development and organize sorority internships – to the point of turning one by one the men around him, guilty of “toxic masculinity”. “Blanche Gardin’s series is a Bollorean war machine against today’s feminists”, had deduced the journalist from Arrêt sur Images Daniel Schneidermann.
And too bad if “la réac de service” was acclaimed in 2017 by many feminists for her tackle to Roman Polanski during the Molières – “You have to know how to separate the man from the artist. It’s weird that this indulgence is “applies only to artists. We do not say, for example, of a baker: ‘It’s true, he violates a few kids in the bakery, but he nevertheless makes an extraordinary baguette'”.
It also doesn’t matter that Blanche Gardin refused the order of Arts and Letters from the government in 2019, judging that the latter was not doing everything possible to get the homeless out of the street. This left will also do without its sketches, however borrowing from social justice – “Google invests billions of dollars in research against death, Mark Zuckerberg invests a large part of his fortune in research for eternal life. Three quarters of the inhabitants of this planet […] has the life expectancy of a cancerous Labrador and in Silicon Valley we are like ‘Oh it sucks to die of cancer at 85’.”
By defending too much freedom of expression, the presumption of innocence, egalitarianism, the planet and the free will of women, Blanche Gardin is decidedly too left-wing for the left.