More academic nonsense from Critical Race Theory; French food is racist, based upon concepts of white privilege and white supremacy, and has cultural hegemony establishing the dominance of white French over ethnic minorities. Yeah? Well I don’t care, and neither should white French folk.
Mountains of Critical Race nonsense is reported every day, and our entire blog would be bogged down in it, if we considered even a small quantity of it. The time to shake off the conceptual chains that the Left drags over the long-suffering tax payer, was decades ago. Start by closing down the universities and offering pick and shovel road work, all voluntary, with a fair pay, to the unemployed academics. That way they will get a real taste of the life the working class leads, rather than dreaming about it in ivory towers, and thus may by empathy become better Leftists.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-latest-example-of-white-privilege-eating-french-food/
“White privilege. White supremacy. White fragility. Whiteness. For the academic left, there’s no aspect of life which cannot be shoehorned into a relationship with these terms.
Law (yes, law) professor Mathilde Cohen of the University of Connecticut recently gave a talk at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Nanterre in which, according to The Times, she argued “French eating habits reinforced the ‘dominance’ of white people over ethnic minorities.”
“By this,” Cohen says in the clip below, “I mean the use of food to reinforce whiteness as a dominant racial identity.
“The French meal is often presented as the national ritual to which every citizen can participate equally. But French food ways are shaped by white middle- and upper-class norms … and the boundaries of whiteness are policed through daily food encounters.”
Cohen says a “strategy” by which non-whites in France try to “act white” is eating typical French food — like pork. With regards to her specialty (law), Cohen notes French schools are exempt from “having to accommodate dietary requests based on [students’] identity.” The “default” for schools are “white, Christian norms.”
Cohen’s seminar was based on her academic paper “The Whiteness of French Food Law, Race, and Eating Culture in France.” The paper makes use of the concepts “food studies, critical race theory, and critical Whiteness studies,” and “sheds light” on the allegedly “neglected area” of food and race.
French food itself has retained a surprising level of homogeneity and structure in the face of colonialism, successive waves of immigration, and a growingly diverse population. Foods marked as foreign are either exoticized or Frenchified, reenacting, the republican model of integration according to which immigrants must assimilate into French culture and comportment in order to belong and not remain perpetual outsiders. Couscous is an example of a food which has been domesticated to exist according to what suits the White palate. …
[C]ouscous has become growingly political, having been embraced by the left as a token of inclusiveness and challenged on the far right as a symbol of non-Whiteness. The popularity of public gatherings of progressive political and civic leaders in which couscous is served to symbolize a commitment to antiracism (couscous républicains) contributes to a narrative of French universalism whereby cultural appreciation of foreign foods validates the superiority of republican values.
Cohen’s talk did not go over well with some in France. LR deputy Eric Ciotti said his alma mater was “once open and excellent, [but] now teaches indigenous, racialist and totally delusional theories.” Sciences Po distanced itself from the professor’s seminar by tweeting that Cohen does not teach there, and that the school promotes “no particular theory or school of thought.”
According to her faculty page, some of Cohen’s other works include “The Law of Placenta,” “Regulating Milk. Women and Cows in France and the United States,” and “The Invisible Labor Inside America’s Lactation Rooms.”
Here is the paper for those who want more, more, more:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3819684
It is not surprising that Macron has expressed alarm at how racialised French society has become, blaming the US for this. No doubt the American disease is spreading over the world faster than Covid-19 supposedly did, but the seeds of the present Great Replacement of culture and race have been sown decades ago, and only now is the implosion point being reached.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/05/14/the-souls-of-white-folk?utm_source=gnaa
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/05/14/the-souls-of-white-folk?utm_source=gnaa
“French society is becoming increasingly “racialised”, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned in comments that blamed imported U.S. social science ideas that focus on race.
“I see that our society is becoming progressively racialised,” Mr. Macron told Elle magazine in an interview. He took aim in particular at the idea of “intersectionality” — popular among left-leaning U.S. academics — that seeks to explain discrimination and poverty by examining the role played by race and gender in affecting an individual’s life chances.
“The logic of intersectionality fractures everything,” Mr. Macron said.
“I stand for universalism. I don’t agree with a fight that reduces everyone to their identity or their particularity,” he continued.
“Social difficulties are not only explained by gender and the colour of your skin, but also by social inequalities.”
He added that he could think of young white men in his hometown of Amiens or nearby Saint-Quentin in northern France “who also have immense difficulties, for different reasons, in finding a job”.
Movements against racism over the last year such as Black Lives Matter, which resonated in France after arriving from the U.S., have led to fears among some critics that the country is importing American racial and identity politics sometimes labelled as “woke culture.”
A new generation of younger French activists are increasingly vocal in denouncing the problem of racism in France and the legacy of the country’s colonial past in Africa and the West Asia.
Their opponents see the focus on race and the past as opening up unnecessary divisions and encouraging a culture in which minorities and women see themselves as constantly oppressed and discriminated against.
Mr. Macron also promised to do more to combat domestic violence and women’s health problems such as endometriosis.”