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The President is expected to deliver a speech on Europe on Thursday 25 April, in line with a speech he delivered at the same venue in 2017. Sandra Laugier and Johann Chapautot, teachers at the Sorbonne, see it as a new mode of communication operating from the power that at their time was trampling knowledge and critical thinking.
Just as there were “Harvard speeches” or Oxford speeches, some people would like to go down in history with their “Sorbonne speech.” The first attempt failed (who remembers it?), the communicants of the Elysee are doing it again. For the entire day, the Latin Quarter will once again become a security fortress for the reigning king, who will come and give talks in the university’s large amphitheater, where, CRS obliges, it will be very difficult to work that day.
In affected and labored tones, we will therefore wear pearls and antithetical phrases, we will babble about “philanthropy” and “progressivism”, we will call for a start against the extreme right, from which, moreover, we have taken over everything. have taken. After passing the immigration law, after announcing the organization of disciplinary councils in primary schools, uniforms and SNUs and when we constantly pursue environmental activists, trade unionists and political opponents like Mathilde Pannot, we stand before universalism and democracy. Will discuss. An audience of bound people and behind four circles of mobile gendarmes – the usual Potemkin village of a weak, talkative power cut off from all reality.
The self-proclaimed “Camp of Reason” is a monument to irrationality
This false propaganda has no place in the university. The “new world”, this managerial pettiness, spends its time stalling