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Florent Villard

“Islamo-Leftism” – Hobby Horse of the Ideologues of French Universalism

“Islamo-Leftism” – Hobby Horse of the Ideologues of French Universalism

The recent and intense attacks on what has been labelled Islamo-leftism, Islamo-gauchisme in the original, is the French iteration of a more global attack on “woke leftism”, or specifically critical race theory, gender studies and postcolonialism, summarized by France’s President Macron as the threat of  “certain social science theories
Florent Villard, Gregory B. Lee Jul 6, 2021
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