“When P.C. culture arose in the U.S., I thought it would always remain specifically American. Now I have to observe that France is also contaminated by it. Many students have adopted the posture of cancel culture, preventing people they don’t agree with from speaking,” Mr. Finkielkraut told me last month.
Over the past year, similar threats of disruption and violence have prompted universities across France to cancel at least seven talks on topics ranging from surrogate motherhood to Islamic extremism. Even former French President François Hollande, hardly an inflammatory speaker, wasn’t allowed to give a speech at the University of Lille, where protesters publicly shredded hundreds of copies of his books.
Wall Street Journal has the complete article below:
https://apple.news/AZwpqVJ1BTwCKRPY-uVo0tA
But “the Americanization of French university life,” as the journalist Eugenie Bastie calls it, shows no sign of stopping. Even classic writers aren’t safe. Last spring, a Sorbonne University performance of the ancient Greek tragedy “The Suppliants” by Aeschylus had to be canceled, after a rumor circulated that some performers were going to wear blackface to portray mythological characters from Egypt.
SO ironic that once the Left said, “We don’t need no thought control”. Now it’s the New Church of Intolerance
