We don't use the word "woke" to describe ourselves or our values. believes in working together with integrity and dignity as we reckon with our past and build a better future. "The progressive political community in the U.S. The term "woke" itself has become controversial in the U.S., even as it becomes more widely used in France. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown. I think that this is at the core of what is happening to us," said former U.S. And responding to such speech with actual violence is an act of self-defense. "If speech opposes that preferred narrative, we are told it is itself an act of violence. Some American panelists also used the forum to fault America's speech codes. "The French Revolution was an event that led to a bloody civil war because the people who were not in agreement with the new ideas, the really revolutionary ideas, were just killed and beheaded," he said. The Autumn 2021 issue of "Le Spectacle Du Monde" magazine. Nothing prevents you from talking and exchanging and dialoguing," Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville told Zenger, shortly after the 2021 Tocqueville Conversations concluded. "Our mantra is that we should talk even if we strongly disagree.
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Still, the panel was full of criticism about the perceived decline of free speech in America. (Full disclosure: Tocqueville is an investor in Zenger News). He works at the Paris office of Jones Day, a major U.S. Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville, a lineal descendant of the 19th-century liberal philosopher, who presides over the conference, is also friendly to America. The " Tocqueville Conversations" are an annual conference held at the Chateau de Tocqueville, the stone castle where Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece, " Democracy in America." For years, "Democracy in America" was assigned in American high schools and colleges as a friendly analysis of the American experiment. tech giants.įormer French Prime Minister Alain Juppé and Agence France Presse CEO Fabrice Fries listened attentively to the panel.
soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy, a conference of leading politicians, journalists and intellectuals devoted a panel to "America's woke ideology." Some panelists seemed alarmed by the trends they saw in American society, including alleged "woke" censorship by Twitter, Facebook and other U.S. Axel Schmidt/Getty ImagesĪ few miles from where U.S. President Emmanuel Macron of France has criticized American “wokeness,” along with older members of the political and cultural establishment, while younger French activists have embraced the controversial ideology.
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