France’s new culture minister has vowed to put an end to the creeping cancel culture threatening the country. “Today, wokeism has become a policy of censorship,” said Rashida Dati, who was appointed to the post last month. “I support artistic freedom, creative freedom, but I don’t support censorship.”
She will launch a campaign next week, inviting some of the greats and good of the cultural world to “support creative freedom and ensure we do not support these new censors.”
Dati had in mind the 1,200 poets, editors, publishers, booksellers, and actors who recently signed a petition calling for the head of famous travel writer Sylvain Tesson. They were angry that he had been appointed patron of a poetry event and judged him to be a far-right reactionary and all the other left-wing tropes that had come to characterize the era of censorship. The same signatories accused Emmanuel Macron of running a government “closer than ever to the far right.”
Dati, who served as justice minister in Nicolas Sarkozy’s government a decade and a half ago, made the remarks in an interview with CNews. That in itself would unravel the hysterical elements on the French left that consider CNews – you guessed it – far-right. they are a minority. The station is rapidly growing and is expected to become France’s most popular news channel this year.
left wing newspaper release The station, which published letters from 1,200 censors, is particularly surprised by the popularity of CNews and its sister radio station Europe 1. The paper recently said viewership numbers were “alarmingly high” and lamented that this was “a sign that their ratings are declining significantly”. -The right line is to find your audience. ”
Dati’s interview on CNews was conducted by Sonia Mabrouk, one of the station’s most prominent journalists.