Bourmaud Daniel – emeritus professor, University of Bordeaux
Wokеist ideology poses an existential challenge to democracy. By proposing a global interpretation of contemporary society, it replaces in the political space the role that Marxism played throughout the 20th century. It is similar to the latter by its deterministic approach to History, its mono-causal explanation which underlies a binary socio-political divide: the «awakened» on the one hand symbolized by the LGBTQ+* movement and the «guilty» of the other embodied by the figure of the heterosexual white man. This ideology is disseminated in society through a network of concentric circles made up at its center of a network of associative activists reinforced by the support of the majority of the cultural, artistic and media world. Gravitating around this core is a whole set of second and third circle actors who share the categories of wokеism without explicitly claiming to do so and who participate in an atmospheric wokеism. To ensure its hold on society, Wokеism relies on powerful legal instruments thanks in particular to the relays it has within the institutions responsible for justice, from national courts to the European level, particularly at the Court European Human Rights. Practicing intense lobbying, he managed to impose a truly revolutionary conception of the social order which it was dangerous to oppose. Practicing intolerance because of its almost religious nature, Wokеism closes the door to pluralism of ideas and therefore appears as a new totalitarianism threatening the very essence of democratic life.
wokeism, challenge to democracy, LGBTQ+*, new totalitarianism.
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