US EditionWokism, Indifference and the Reverse Logic of the Expiatory Victim
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ENTRETIEN. Editor-in-chief of the Free See and press correspondent at the Federal Palace of Bern for L-Agefi, Jonas Follonier is the author of La Diffusion du wokisme en Suisse (Slatkine). In this incisive essay, he analyses the mechanisms by which the so-called "wokes" ideas have gradually gained ground in the Swiss political, media and academic spheres. Nevertheless, he argues that the reflexes of Swiss national identity, based on direct democ…
René Girard's thinking sheds penetrating light on the ideological drifts of wokism, as well as the deep dangers that they induce. Wokism, understood not as mere ethical vigilance but as an ideological system aimed at eliminating all perceived differences, can be read as an advanced episode of mimetic dynamics. What this current claims to fight – violence of exclusion – it reacts to it, by inverting it. And in doing so, it maintains a sacrificial…
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