Faced with the tidal wave of wokeism whose manifestations are increasingly felt in France, deputies from the Rassemblement National (RN) have taken the initiative to create a cross-party watchdog group on the subject—intended to submit draft laws on subjects as varied as ‘inclusive’ writing and public events closed to whites or men.
The project was officially launched on Wednesday, April 12th, by RN MP Roger Chudeau, who is in charge of educational issues within his party. It is a parliamentary association—thus exclusively made up of MPs—against the “poison of wokeism.” Roger Chudeau is a former national education inspector, which explains why the progress of wokeism in schools is particularly targeted by his initiative. The group, however, intends to have a much wider scope than the educational environment.
Roger Chudeau presented his group to the press in the following terms: the aim is to fight against wokeism, perceived as a “doctrine of deconstruction of our civilisation,” a “separatist discourse,” and an “Anglo-Saxon style communitarianism.”
The group’s preferred form of combat will be legislation. The committed MPs intend to propose bills to counter the galloping expansion of inclusive writing—which has been banned by the Ministry of Education and the Académie Française, but which is gaining ground in administrations and universities. They also want to tackle the proliferation of gatherings based on discrimination, such as anti-white gatherings (officially banned for ‘non-racialised’ people), or those that segregate on the basis of sex (officially banned for ‘cisgender men’). The issue of transgender presence in sports—distorting competitions through biased performances when male athletes end up competing in the female category—is also among their concerns.
The transpartisan anti-wokeism group can be seen as a form of response to the ‘Parents Vigilants’ cell launched a few months ago by Reconquête, the rival party of the Rassemblement National led by Éric Zemmour. The aim of the cell was to invite parents to document the pervasive domination of wokeism in schools: teaching of gender theory, militant interventions of LGBT associations with young children, Islamic activism, etc. The Rassemblement National defends its decision to found its own watchdog group and explains that it operates according to its own imperatives and its own schedule.
Not all members of the Rassemblement National parliamentary group have joined the new organization, but parliamentarians from other parties have, such as the sovereignist deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the two senators close to Reconquête, Stéphane Ravier (a defector from the Rassemblement National), and Sébastien Meurant (formerly of Les Républicains).
A symposium against wokeism is to be held in Paris on April 21st in the presence of the president of the Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella.
