the shipwreck of neofeminism, by Abnousse Shalmani – L’Express

the procrastination of the presidents of prestigious universities – LExpress

Neofeminists are convinced of this and repeat it over and over again in tweets and conferences: if women were in power, things would be better, there would be less war, inequality, racism, violence, etc. (Margaret Tachat and Benazir Bhutto will appreciate finally being recognized as they deserve). The hearing of the presidents of the three main American universities (Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, “Penn”) by the committee of the United States House of Representatives proves the opposite. On December 7, New York State Republican Representative Elise Stefanik asked each of them a very simple question: “Is calling for the genocide of Jews against the codes of their universities?” Penn President Liz Magill responded: “If the speech turns into behavior, then it could be harassment.” For that of Harvard, Claudine Gay, “this could be the case, depending on the context”, and for Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, “if it targets individuals and not public statements”. I summarize: if the genocide is effective, if the call is followed by a real genocide, yes, it can be serious, therefore continued, but it all depends on the context all the same.

The three attempted to justify their response with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or restricting the freedom of speech or of the press.” .” Let’s be honest: this was just an alibi masking (poorly) their inability to denounce the call for the genocide of the Jews. Never in the history of American universities has academic freedom and freedom of expression been so undermined (apart from anti-Semitism – for the sake of the absent-minded). If as a lawyer professor at Harvard you choose to be counsel to Harvey Weinstein, you will be immediately fired by Claudine Gay; if as a biologist you confirm the real reality of two sexes, you are fired by Claudine Gay. If you dare to defend meritocracy too. America’s elite universities have become an Olympus of dogmatic intransigence, obtuse refusal to debate, and expression of inept racial theories. Nothing can be publicly expressed outside of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory, all with holy intersectionality in mind. Amen. Israel being considered as the last colony, and the Jew as a necessarily privileged white, it is authorized to call for genocide. This is what we call an intellectual shipwreck.

Meanwhile, neo-feminism, from the United States to Europe, stubbornly refuses to recognize the reality of the rapes committed by Hamas during the October 7 pogrom. Better: the feminists who wish to demonstrate against the rape of Jews have left the ranks manu militari for their own safety. You understand: a Hamas “resistance fighter” who rapes a “colonizing Israeli” is not really rape, it is an act of liberation from the river to the sea. This is genocide and mass rape for peace! Some neo-feminists, slightly embarrassed by so many attacks from the fascist extreme right, dare to make a delicate point: it is too early to denounce rapes of which we know nothing. We have to wait for the investigation. It’s cute. In April 2022, Margaux Benn won the prestigious Albert-Londres prize for her reporting on the war in Ukraine, in particular for that on the mass rapes perpetrated by the Russians. Less than two months after the invasion of Ukraine. This is what we call “double standards”. A Jewess is worth less than a Ukrainian for the neo-feminists fed an ideology of identity who prioritize victims according to a rigid color scheme.

Meanwhile, in France, between the bar of the Lutetia hotel and rue Saint-Guillaume, a banal and sordid separation of a couple, like thousands that happen every day, ended with the in lunar retreat from the director of the less and less prestigious Science Po, Mathias Vicherat, who made the stupid mistake of welcoming the student unions to justify what he did not do. There is neither complaint, nor indictment, nor anything to reproach Vicherat for. But neofeminism is vigilant! The rumor now constitutes condemnation. Welcome to feudalism!

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