“Woke” ideas from the United States continue to gain ground in France. In an internal memo sent to its agents on July 6, the Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFIP) asks tax auditors to ban mentions of civility from all their communications so as not to offend the gender identity of taxpayers, according to Le Figaro.
Arguing “ the current institutional and social context of a better consideration of changes in gender identity “, the catchphrase and the polite formula at the beginning and end of the letter, as well as the recipient block where the name and address of the person to whom the communication is addressed are written, will now have to be reviewed, can we read in this note. Farewell to the “Hello Sir” and “Hello Madam” in the preamble, the tax auditors will stick to a “Hello”, period.
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For William Thay, president of the think-tank Le Millénaire, it is a “decision taken by the elites” which “adapts to Anglo-Saxon culture”. And to underline: “The government and the administration are, as usual, strong against the weak and weak against the strong: they have yielded to the tyranny of the minorities”.
William Thay: “The government and the administration have yielded to the tyranny of the minorities”, in #LaMatinale pic.twitter.com/QhmlEcMk0t
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