{"id":8101,"date":"2020-12-06T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2020-12-06T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:57:55","slug":"dr-joseph-facal-la-grande-demission-des-intellectuels-the-big-resignation-of-intellectuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/12\/06\/dr-joseph-facal-la-grande-demission-des-intellectuels-the-big-resignation-of-intellectuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Joseph Facal: \u00abLa grande d\u00e9mission des intellectuels\u00bb [“The big resignation of intellectuals”]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MANY thanks Dr. Facal for your\nEXCELLENT article published yesterday in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a quick translation\u2026 but first, the original in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/12\/05\/la-grande-demission-des-intellectuels<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>When I spoke\nto Richard Martineau on his show \u201cLes francs-tireurs\u201d, he noted that the most\nastonishing transformation of our time is that of the left.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I obviously agree <\/em>[Bambi too \u2639].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ntraditional left wanted universal solidarity: to unite, beyond divisions, on\nthe basis of a common right to dignity.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new left proposes a return to ethnoreligious and identity tribalism: we define people by their colour, their religion, or their gender.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alliance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why has this left, in spite of its silliness and its excesses, the wind in its sails?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For two reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first reason for its strength is that it is the combination of four streams of thought.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we recycle residues of Marxism to feed an anti-capitalist discourse.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitalism certainly poses multiple problems, but all the attempts to get out of it have produced widespread poverty and the decline in freedoms.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no known exceptions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, this new left is often the relay for anti-Western Islamism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will suggest that a free thinker who was murdered has asked for it, a little bit, with his words, or that Islamist extremism is a reaction to the discrimination suffered by all Muslims in our societies.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the so-called “anti-colonial” left chooses to see only one racism, that of whites, and to see it everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth, radical feminists fuel the hatred of all men, and defend a religious extremism of which they would be the first victims in the Middle East<\/em> [Good point, thank you. In many earlier posts, Bambi denounced the silence of our contemporary feminists following several stories of honour killing in that part of the world].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When these four mighty forces combine, the wind starts ruffling our hair.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this wind is blowing hard, I said, for a second reason.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is blowing hard because many don’t dare stand up to it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is in universities that these discourses are constructed before being picked up by columnists and activists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in universities, fear reigns.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entire departments are kidnapped by activists: they are not researchers because they already have all the answers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disgusted or scared teachers walk away and let these excited people take control.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, they justify their resignation by saying they are too busy with a job of which, in the vast majority of cases, nothing, absolutely nothing, will remain in a few years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, they often do willful blindness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Charles Taylor defends Islamist Tariq Ramadan, who wants us to believe that the rape charges against him are the result of a conspiracy!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they flee their responsibilities, there are not many people left to recall the obvious.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that so-called anti-racism, if it targets all white people because they are white, is racism, quite simply.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that “systemic” racism is not a scientific concept, but an ideological weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that women in the Middle East are fighting against this religious obscurantism that many of our feminists support.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that making all Muslims victims is the best way to relieve them of responsibility.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the intellectuals, if those who have the means to deconstruct these falsehoods, do not do it, who will?\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANY thanks Dr. Facal for your EXCELLENT article published yesterday in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al. Here is a quick translation\u2026 but first, the original in French. https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/12\/05\/la-grande-demission-des-intellectuels \u201cWhen I spoke to Richard Martineau on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}