Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on December 3, 2024. It was translated into English by the Observatory before being edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines. It is crossposted here with permission.
Our fellow philosopher and contributor to this site, Alexandre Portier, Minister Delegate for Educational Success in the Barnier government, dotted the i’s and crosses the i’s in the Senate by affirming his rejection of the new “education for emotional and sexual life” program, concocted and validated by the Higher Council of Programs of the Ministry of National Education.
Responsible for “academic success” in a country whose academic failure figures reveal a continuous collapse without equivalent in rich countries, Mr. Portier has set three priorities: the rejection of gender theory in schools; the “no” to the presence of ideologies in the school space; and the rejection of associative activism, which has been encouraged for too long. The good fairies of gender theory use the pornographic bath in which adolescents are immersed willingly or by force—and the criminal and psychiatric disorders to which it leads—as a pretext to interfere in schools and secondary establishments and risk destabilizing millions of adolescents already weakened by screens and social networks. This would already be extremely serious in normal times, but in a situation of intellectual and civilizational collapse, it is a criminal enterprise.
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The supervising minister, Mrs. Anne Genetet – formerly a doctor, medical journalist, member of parliament for French people abroad in Asia, and consultant on working conditions for domestic staff in Singapore – immediately asserted her authority to contest her subordinate’s remarks: “The school of the Republic is a school in which there is no ideology, this program has no ideology. Gender theory does not exist, nor does it exist in this program. ” Reading these two sentences, it is not certain that the Minister knows the meaning of the word “ideology,” nor does she identify “gender theory.” Ten years after Najat Vallaud Belkacem declared its non-existence, and after this obscurantist and anti-scientific theory has woven its web throughout all of our public assistance and educational institutions, this backward negationism has stunned observers: Is the Minister so ignorant of the reality of what her ministry is disseminating—not to mention the action of activist groups dedicated to LGBT propaganda, and in particular to trans activism, which intervene in schools and secondary establishments? Or is she pretending not to know? In both cases, the situation is desperate.
President Macron announced in 2017 that he would put an end to the distribution of pornography on the Internet for minors. Having won the votes of their grandparents thanks to such remarks, he then quickly renounced any ambition in this area. He is now trying to repair evil with evil, by promoting the postulate of “consent”—although one consents to everything under the influence—and gender ideology, which is supposed to miraculously remedy the aforementioned ravages. And what can we say about this Ministry of National Education, which chose this judicious moment to propose to the Goncourt des lycéens the aptly named pornographic book The Lost Boys Club…? We are there.
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With such a team leader at the head of the ministry, the academic results of young French people will not improve – our last place in mathematics within the European Union has just been reaffirmed at the end of primary school – and the “demographic rearmament” called for by the President is not about to happen either, if it takes several decades for each young French person to know who they are, and if their gender identity corresponds to the imperative of survival and reproduction of the human species.
In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one’s own, and to test one’s virtues, one’s body, one’s fantasies, one’s hopes, and one’s ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!
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In referring to France as “a country whose academic failure figures reveal a continuous collapse without equivalent in rich countries,” the author has not taken into account the disaster of public education in the United States. No students in Chicago or Baltimore public schools can read or do math. American schools (and Canadians ones) are full of DEI racialism and gay-trans celebration and recruitment. Also anti-American (and anti-Canadian) ideology. Between the university faculties of education, the teachers’ unions, and the departments (and ministries) of education, North American children have been callously betrayed