{"id":1141,"date":"2020-12-19T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2020-12-19T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T08:23:50","slug":"french-intelligentsia-and-little-tom-thumb-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-100-french-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"French intelligentsia and Little Tom Thumb: the questionable ethics of the \u2018100\u2019 French academics[:es]La intelectualidad francesa y el Peque\u00f1o Pulgarcito: la \u00e9tica cuestionable de los &#8220;100&#8221; acad\u00e9micos franceses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-page__summary-container\">\n<div class=\"article-page__summary\">\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>A response to the Open Letter from \u2018100\u2019 French Scholars, which singled out the author for special mention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-page__authors-container\">\n<div class=\"article-page__authors\"><span class=\"article-page__author-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/author\/houria-bouteldja-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houria Bouteldja<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-page__rich-text\">\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>France is no longer a light among nations.<\/p>\n<p>Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Deleuze or Bourdieu are from another era. As for the ultra-white elites who offer themselves as their replacements, they increasingly deserve the name \u2018Pale\u2019, as given by the Native Americans to their torturers. Their radiance, now reduced to the dim halo of waning lanterns at a funfair, impresses no one outside their cliques and courtesans. As Rokhaya Diallo\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.fr\/story\/197411\/presse-etrangere-voix-minoritaires-franceracisme-musulmans-macron-laicite?fbclid=IwAR1dnVdz621FEQDzBuC3g-DKaxlKtmPiBZXpWJMZIQGx118W0Dv2mLOcgCQ\">noted recently<\/a>, \u2018thanks to the great marketing of a few white intellectuals, \u201cthe birthplace of Enlightenment\u201d is sold as an example of peaceful coexistence devoid of all racial tension.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, in a strange version of events that only they subscribe to \u2013 and which in many ways sums up their entire world view \u2013 a significant number among the intelligentsia in France is completely perplexed by the dismay expressed by international onlookers. Faced with the view from outside France, where there is little understanding of their devotion to the myth of French republicanism, and where secularist fundamentalism or the obsession with the veil are met with puzzlement, these French intellectuals insist that foreigners \u2018do not understand our values.\u2019 Anyone who dares utter the words \u2018race\u2019, \u2018whiteness\u2019, or \u2018Islamophobia\u2019 is accused of doing the work either of the extreme right or of Jihadists. And if one persists and goes on to mention racial discrimination or social Apartheid, the accusation is none other than treason to universalism!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/open-letter-response-100-french-scholars\/?fbclid=IwAR11Ap7C9cfdx5oW5G2y-wCSqqakdNG8zQnnj6icZsCUzCm8yk9Xoo-mH34\">right of reply<\/a>\u00a0of which they availed themselves in openDemocracy in response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/open-letter-the-threat-of-academic-authoritarianism-international-solidarity-with-antiracist-academics-in-france\/\">Open Letter<\/a>\u00a0signed by many scholars justifiably worried by the appearance of a form of French McCarthyism within French academia, is a perfect illustration of this attitude. The crudeness of this attempt to save face before an English-speaking public, which understands perfectly the extent to which France\u2019s reputation has been sullied by lies and myths, is obvious to all. I could ignore the sophistry involved in its recalling the existence of other forms of slavery in order to deny the specificity of the transatlantic slave trade or of the colonialism which inaugurated western racism. I can also skip over the minimisation of far right-wing violence under the pretext that it causes few deaths when we are aware that this violence is often ignored by police and other institutions. And I can even let pass the term\u00a0<i>Islamogauchisme<\/i>\u00a0(Islamic-leftism), used by neo-conservatives to dismiss any critique of Islamophobia, and which reminds us of the slur of \u2018Jewish-Bolshevism\u2019. In sum, I don\u2019t wish to get bogged down in the extreme poverty and fallaciousness of the letter\u2019s argumentation which stands in for real thinking. Instead, I will address its defamatory nature which targets me as a decolonial activist. This is not because my case deserves the particular attention of the English-speaking public, who doubtless have bigger fish to fry, but because it is representative of the way in which dissent to the gospel of republicanism is treated in the land of\u00a0<i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-page__highlight\">\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote__pull-quote\">\n<div class=\"blockquote__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>It is representative of the way in which dissent to the gospel of republicanism is treated in the land of\u00a0<i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-page__rich-text\">\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>Habituated to the complacency of the French mainstream media which writes them infinite blank cheques to speak with impunity (French media only allows a tiny number from among the privileged class a right to reply), the \u2018100\u2019 signatories of the response hope to be able to drag me through the mud in the foreign press as they do regularly in the pages of French newspapers such as\u00a0<i>Lib\u00e9ration<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Le Monde<\/i>\u00a0or<i>\u00a0Canard enchain\u00e9<\/i>.[1] They write,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The \u201cParti des Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique\u201d is a case in point, standing as the main \u201cislamist-gauchiste\u201d movement in France. The former spokesperson of the movement, Hourija Boutelja (sic)., even endorsed Mohamed Merah, the 2012 jihadist killer: \u2018Mohamed Merah is me and I am him. We are of the same origin and of the same condition. We are post-colonial subjects. I say tonight that I am a \u2018fundamental\u2019 Muslim\u2019. We remind the signatories of the letter that Merah killed not only French military men of Muslim ancestry but also Jewish children in a school in Toulouse.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If anyone was reading this without having any knowledge of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/mohamed-merah-et-moi\/\">the context<\/a>, they would be justified in thinking that someone as damaging as myself should rightfully be behind bars, especially if they had read the terrifying profile of me published a few days earlier by two eminent French intellectuals in\u00a0<i>Lib\u00e9ration<\/i>. In fact, Alain Policar and Alain Renault, doctors of political science and philosophy respectively, wishing to be reassuring,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/debats\/2020\/11\/04\/islamisme-ou-est-le-deni-des-universitaires_1804439?fbclid=IwAR3IFHmVwRKf7CWrexchL4NqApQA3Wsab8kBLi1Hyfyl_Sqe5IwvYX8fYIM\">explained to a public<\/a>\u00a0terrified by the spectre of decolonial thought, that it should not fear the impact of my ideas on the university because everyone knows well that \u2018the effect of the racist, antisemitic and homophobic theses of Houria Bouteldja amounts to no more than zero.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I assure you that I have no intention of throwing myself at your feet and begging you to believe that I am neither an admirer of Jihadism nor a patented antisemite, as our keyboard inquisitors would have it. This is firstly because it would be humiliating, second because it is an illusory exercise (what does my word count for?), and finally because I prefer to trust your intelligence rather than your noble sentiments. I also will not make any attempt to clear my name. I will simply provide a few signposts that, like the breadcrumbs sprinkled by Little Tom Thumb, will direct you, not to me and to\u00a0<i>who I really am<\/i>, but to them and to who\u00a0<i>they<\/i>\u00a0really are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 1: in France, apology for terrorism is a crime. However, the speech I gave during a meeting a few days after the mass killing in Toulouse titled \u2018Mohamed Merah and I\u2019 did not lead to any legal case being taken against me (despite my detractors\u2019 thirst for one). Those who truncate the text and cite only the first part \u2013 \u2018Mohamed Merah is me\u2019 \u2013 without mentioning the second \u2013 \u2018Mohamed Merah is not me\u2019 \u2013 are thugs who do not deserve the label of an intellectual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 2: In 2015, the Licra, a pro-Israel \u2018antiracist\u2019 organisation, mounted a legal complaint against me for \u2018incitement to racial hatred\u2019 (antisemitism) due to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/state-racisms-and-philosemitism-or-how-to-politicize-the-issue-of-antiracism-in-france\/\">a text I wrote on philosemitism<\/a>\u00a0in which I accused the state of disguising its new modes of antisemitism. The response of the Attorney General, not one known for his \u2018<i>Islamogauchiste<\/i>\u2019 tendencies, was to draft the following opinion: \u2018There is no justification for a legal pursuit as the offence does not appear to be sufficiently well-founded, the investigation not having led to the gathering of sufficient evidence.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 3: Many well-known people who identify as Jewish, who obviously have no time for Nazis, have no hesitation in lending me\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/good-conscience-of-french-intellectuals-case-of-thomas-gu\/\">their unconditional support<\/a>\u00a0because we have a shared analysis of colonialism, be it that of Israel or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 4: In France I am published by\u00a0<i>La Fabrique<\/i>, in the US by\u00a0<i>Semiotexte(e)<\/i>\u00a0and in Spain\u00a0<i>Akal<\/i>, all of which are antiracist, anti-fascist and progressive publishing houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 5: The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/newsletter\/2017_10\/preface-of-cornel-west-in-houria-bouteldjas-book\/\">preface to my book<\/a>\u00a0<i>Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love<\/i>\u00a0was written by Harvard University Professor Cornell West while the preface to the Spanish version is by the Berkeley Professor Ramon Grosfoguel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 6: Our events, demonstrations, and meetings in France are sponsored by renowned personalities including Angela Davis, Mumia Abu Jamal and Tariq Ali.<\/p>\n<p>I could continue adding factual accolades of this kind, but it would be presumptuous to do so. Nevertheless, even if this trail of breadcrumbs does nothing to prove my innocence, it might plant some seeds of doubt about the basis for the accusations against me and about the questionable ethics of those who spread them. It is not that my detractors are unaware of these facts. They knowingly lie, distort and manipulate them. I was going to write \u2018with impunity\u2019 but this right of response means that this time they have drawn a blank, thanks to the international media. I could also shame those who defame me by remarking that when I call myself a \u2018fundamental Muslim\u2019, I am not referring to any form of religious fundamentalism but to Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire who, in refusing to renege on his negritude, famously declared himself a \u2018fundamental Negro\u2019. I will stop here because the shame I feel on their behalf is turning into pity and it would take away from what I intend to be a more incisive conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I advise my detractors to take a leaf out of my book. Why not paraphrase the text that they say incriminates me \u2013 \u2018Mohamed Merah and I\u2019 \u2013 and write their own: \u2018White Supremacists and Us\u2019. Part 1 could be titled \u2018white supremacists are us\u2019 in which they analyse their belonging to whiteness and their connection to state racism. Part 2: \u2018white supremacists are not us\u2019 where they explain how to break with the nationalist and imperialist logic they call \u2018universalism\u2019 by firstly making an attempt at humility and secondly, proposing a roadmap for abolishing race and creating the conditions for unifying the working class. But this is only fantasy. How could I ever imagine them being counselled by decolonial activists, evolving in their thinking, or going against the grain? To be sure, Little Tom Thumb has helped us uncover who they really are, but unfortunately, he does not have the power to turn lead into gold.<\/p>\n<p><i>This article was translated into English by Alana Lentin.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[1] These newspapers consistently refuse me the right of reply even though I am continually defamed in them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-refuse-canard-enchaine\/\">http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-refuse-canard-enchaine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-dhouria-bouteldja-refuse-par-le-journal-le-monde\/\">http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-dhouria-bouteldja-refuse-par-le-journal-le-monde\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[:es]<em>Una respuesta a la Carta Abierta de los &#8220;100&#8221; Eruditos Franceses, que distinguieron a la autora con una menci\u00f3n especial.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/author\/houria-bouteldja-2\/\">Houria Bouteldja<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9 de diciembre del 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Francia ya no es una luz entre las naciones.<\/p>\n<p>Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Deleuze o Bourdieu son de otra \u00e9poca. En cuanto a las \u00e9lites ultra blancas que se ofrecen como sus reemplazos, se merecen cada vez m\u00e1s el nombre de &#8220;P\u00e1lido&#8221;, como los nativos americanos designaron a sus torturadores. Su resplandor, ahora reducido al tenue halo de los faroles menguantes en un parque de atracciones, no impresiona a nadie fuera de sus camarillas y cortesanos. Como Rokhaya Diallo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.fr\/story\/197411\/presse-etrangere-voix-minoritaires-franceracisme-musulmans-macron-laicite?fbclid=IwAR1dnVdz621FEQDzBuC3g-DKaxlKtmPiBZXpWJMZIQGx118W0Dv2mLOcgCQ\">se\u00f1al\u00f3 recientemente<\/a>, &#8220;gracias al gran marketing de unos pocos intelectuales blancos, &#8220;la cuna de la Ilustraci\u00f3n&#8221; es vendida como un ejemplo de coexistencia pac\u00edfica desprovista de toda tensi\u00f3n racial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Por lo tanto, en una extra\u00f1a versi\u00f3n de los acontecimientos a la que s\u00f3lo ellos adhieren -y que en muchos aspectos resume toda su visi\u00f3n del mundo- un n\u00famero importante de la intelectualidad francesa est\u00e1 completamente perpleja por la consternaci\u00f3n expresada por los espectadores internacionales. Frente a la mirada de fuera de Francia, donde se comprende poco su devoci\u00f3n al mito del republicanismo franc\u00e9s, y donde el fundamentalismo secularista o la obsesi\u00f3n por el velo son recibidos con perplejidad, estos intelectuales franceses insisten en que los extranjeros &#8220;no entienden nuestros valores&#8221;. Cualquiera que se atreva a pronunciar las palabras &#8220;raza&#8221;, &#8220;blancura&#8221; o &#8220;islamofobia&#8221; es acusado de hacerle el juego a la extrema derecha o a los yihadistas. Y si uno persiste y contin\u00faa mencionando la discriminaci\u00f3n racial o el Apartheid social, la acusaci\u00f3n no es otra que la traici\u00f3n al universalismo!<\/p>\n<p>El <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/open-letter-response-100-french-scholars\/?fbclid=IwAR11Ap7C9cfdx5oW5G2y-wCSqqakdNG8zQnnj6icZsCUzCm8yk9Xoo-mH34\">derecho de r\u00e9plica<\/a> del que se acogieron en openDemocracy en respuesta a la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/open-letter-the-threat-of-academic-authoritarianism-international-solidarity-with-antiracist-academics-in-france\/\">Carta Abierta<\/a> firmada por varios acad\u00e9micos, justificadamente preocupados por la aparici\u00f3n de una forma de macartismo franc\u00e9s en la academia francesa, es un ejemplo perfecto de esta actitud. La crudeza de este intento de salvar las apariencias ante un p\u00fablico anglosaj\u00f3n, que comprende perfectamente hasta qu\u00e9 punto la reputaci\u00f3n de Francia ha sido manchada por mentiras y mitos, es evidente para todos. Podr\u00eda ignorar el sofisma que supone recordar la existencia de otras formas de esclavitud para negar la especificidad de la trata transatl\u00e1ntica de esclavos o del colonialismo que inaugur\u00f3 el racismo occidental. Tambi\u00e9n puedo pasar por alto la minimizaci\u00f3n de la violencia de extrema derecha con el pretexto de que causa pocas muertes cuando somos conscientes de que la polic\u00eda y otras instituciones a menudo ignoran esta violencia. Y puedo incluso dejar pasar el t\u00e9rmino <em>Islamogauchisme<\/em> (izquierdismo-isl\u00e1mico), usado por los neoconservadores para descartar cualquier cr\u00edtica a la islamofobia, y que nos recuerda la calumnia del &#8216;judeo-bolchevismo&#8217;. En resumen, no deseo empantanarme en la extrema pobreza y la falsa argumentaci\u00f3n de la carta, que sustituye al pensamiento real. En cambio, me ocupar\u00e9 de su naturaleza difamatoria que me apunta como activista descolonial. Esto no se debe a que mi caso merezca la atenci\u00f3n particular del p\u00fablico angl\u00f3fono, que sin duda tiene peces m\u00e1s grandes que fre\u00edr, sino porque es representativo de la forma en que se trata la disidencia al evangelio del republicanismo en la tierra de <em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em> y la libertad de expresi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Es representativo de la forma en que se trata la disidencia al evangelio del republicanismo en la tierra de Charlie Hebdo y la libertad de expresi\u00f3n.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Habituados a la complacencia de los grandes medios de comunicaci\u00f3n franceses que les escriben infinitos cheques en blanco para hablar con impunidad (los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n franceses s\u00f3lo permiten a un n\u00famero \u00ednfimo de la clase privilegiada el derecho de r\u00e9plica), los &#8220;100&#8221; firmantes de la respuesta esperan poder arrastrarme por el barro de la prensa extranjera como lo hacen regularmente en las p\u00e1ginas de los peri\u00f3dicos franceses como <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>, <em>Le Monde<\/em> o <em>Canard enchain\u00e9<\/em>.[1] Escriben,<\/p>\n<p>El &#8220;Parti des Indig\u00e8nes de la R\u00e9publique&#8221; es un ejemplo, ya que es el principal movimiento &#8220;izquierdista-isl\u00e1mico&#8221; de Francia. La antigua portavoz del movimiento, Hourija Boutelja (sic), incluso apoy\u00f3 a Mohamed Merah, el asesino yihadista de 2012: &#8220;Mohamed Merah soy yo y yo soy \u00e9l&#8221;. Somos del mismo origen y de la misma condici\u00f3n. Somos sujetos poscoloniales. Esta noche digo que soy una musulm\u00e1n &#8220;fundamental&#8221;. Recordamos a los firmantes de la carta que Merah no s\u00f3lo mat\u00f3 a militares franceses de ascendencia musulmana sino tambi\u00e9n a ni\u00f1os jud\u00edos en una escuela de Toulouse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Si alguien leyera esto sin conocer <a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/mohamed-merah-et-moi\/\">el contexto<\/a>, estar\u00eda justificado en pensar que alguien tan perjudicial como yo deber\u00eda estar leg\u00edtimamente entre rejas, sobre todo si hubiera le\u00eddo el aterrador perfil m\u00edo publicado unos d\u00edas antes por dos eminentes intelectuales franceses en <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>. En efecto, Alain Policar y Alain Renault, doctores en ciencias pol\u00edticas y filosof\u00eda respectivamente, deseosos de tranquilizar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/debats\/2020\/11\/04\/islamisme-ou-est-le-deni-des-universitaires_1804439?fbclid=IwAR3IFHmVwRKf7CWrexchL4NqApQA3Wsab8kBLi1Hyfyl_Sqe5IwvYX8fYIM\">explicaron a un p\u00fablico<\/a> aterrorizado por el fantasma del pensamiento descolonial, que no deb\u00eda temer el impacto de mis ideas en la universidad porque todo el mundo sabe bien que &#8220;el efecto de las tesis racistas, antisemitas y hom\u00f3fobas de Houria Bouteldja no es m\u00e1s que cero&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Le aseguro que no tengo intenci\u00f3n de arrojarme a sus pies y rogarle que crea que no soy ni un admirador del yihadismo ni un antisemita patentado, como dir\u00edan nuestros inquisidores del teclado. En primer lugar porque ser\u00eda humillante, en segundo lugar porque es un ejercicio ilusorio (\u00bfAcaso vale mi palabra?), y por \u00faltimo porque prefiero confiar en su inteligencia antes que en sus nobles sentimientos. Tampoco har\u00e9 ning\u00fan intento de limpiar mi nombre. Simplemente proporcionar\u00e9 algunas se\u00f1ales que, como las migas de pan espolvoreadas por Pulgarcito, le dirigir\u00e1n, no a m\u00ed y a <em>qui\u00e9n soy realmente<\/em>, sino a ellos y a qui\u00e9nes <em>son<\/em> realmente.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miga de pan 1: en Francia, la apolog\u00eda del terrorismo es un crimen. Sin embargo, el discurso que di en una reuni\u00f3n unos d\u00edas despu\u00e9s de la matanza masiva en Toulouse, titulado &#8220;Mohamed Merah y yo&#8221;, no condujo a ning\u00fan caso legal en mi contra (a pesar de la sed de mis detractores por uno). Los que truncan el texto y s\u00f3lo citan la primera parte &#8211; &#8220;Mohamed Merah soy yo&#8221; &#8211; sin mencionar la segunda &#8211; &#8220;Mohamed Merah no soy yo&#8221; &#8211; son matones que no merecen la etiqueta de un intelectual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miga de pan 2: En 2015, la Licra, una organizaci\u00f3n pro-israel\u00ed &#8220;antirracista&#8221;, present\u00f3 una demanda contra m\u00ed por &#8220;incitaci\u00f3n al odio racial&#8221; (antisemitismo), debido a <a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/state-racisms-and-philosemitism-or-how-to-politicize-the-issue-of-antiracism-in-france\/\">un texto que escrib\u00ed sobre el filosemitismo<\/a> en el que acusaba al Estado de disfrazar sus nuevos modos de antisemitismo. La respuesta del Fiscal General, no conocido por sus tendencias &#8220;<em>islamoizquierdistas<\/em>&#8220;, fue redactar la siguiente opini\u00f3n: &#8220;No hay justificaci\u00f3n para una persecuci\u00f3n legal ya que el delito no parece estar suficientemente fundamentado, ya que la investigaci\u00f3n no ha llevado a la obtenci\u00f3n de pruebas suficientes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miga de pan 3: Muchas personas conocidas que se identifican como jud\u00edas, que obviamente no tienen tiempo para los nazis, no dudan en prestarme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/can-europe-make-it\/good-conscience-of-french-intellectuals-case-of-thomas-gu\/\">su apoyo incondicional<\/a> porque tenemos un an\u00e1lisis compartido del colonialismo, ya sea el de Israel o el de otros lugares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Breadcrumb 4: En Francia me publican <em>La Fabrique<\/em>, en EE.UU. <em>Semiotexte(e)<\/em> y en Espa\u00f1a <em>Akal<\/em>, todas ellas editoriales antirracistas, antifascistas y progresistas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miga de pan 5: El <a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/newsletter\/2017_10\/preface-of-cornel-west-in-houria-bouteldjas-book\/\">prefacio de mi libro<\/a> Los blancos, los jud\u00edos y nosotros: Hacia una pol\u00edtica del amor revolucionario fue escrito por el profesor Cornell West de la Universidad de Harvard, mientras que el prefacio de la versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol es del profesor Ramon Grosfoguel de Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miga de pan 6: Nuestros eventos, demostraciones y reuniones en Francia son patrocinados por renombradas personalidades como Angela Davis, Mumia Abu Jamal y Tariq Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Podr\u00eda seguir agregando elogios f\u00e1cticos de este tipo, pero ser\u00eda presuntuoso hacerlo. Sin embargo, aunque este rastro de migajas de pan no sirva para probar mi inocencia, podr\u00eda sembrar algunas semillas de duda sobre el fundamento de las acusaciones contra m\u00ed y sobre la \u00e9tica cuestionable de los que las difunden. No es que mis detractores desconozcan estos hechos. Mienten, distorsionan y manipulan a sabiendas. Iba a escribir &#8220;con impunidad&#8221; pero este derecho de r\u00e9plica significa que esta vez se han quedado en blanco, gracias a los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n internacionales. Tambi\u00e9n podr\u00eda avergonzar a los que me difaman diciendo que cuando me denomino &#8220;musulmana fundamental&#8221;, no me refiero a ninguna forma de fundamentalismo religioso, sino a Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire que, al negarse a renegar de su negritud, se declar\u00f3 &#8220;negro fundamental&#8221;. Me detendr\u00e9 aqu\u00ed porque la verg\u00fcenza que siento en su nombre se est\u00e1 convirtiendo en l\u00e1stima y me alejar\u00eda de lo que pretendo que sea una conclusi\u00f3n m\u00e1s incisiva.<\/p>\n<p>De hecho, aconsejo a mis detractores que tomen una hoja de mi libro. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no parafrasear el texto que dicen que me incrimina &#8211; &#8216;Mohamed Merah y yo&#8217; &#8211; y escribir el suyo propio: &#8216;Los supremacistas blancos y nosotros&#8217;. La primera parte podr\u00eda titularse &#8220;Los supremacistas blancos somos nosotros&#8221;, en la que analizan su pertenencia a la blancura y su conexi\u00f3n con el racismo de estado. Parte 2: &#8220;Los supremacistas blancos no somos nosotros&#8221; donde explican c\u00f3mo romper con la l\u00f3gica nacionalista e imperialista que llaman &#8220;universalismo&#8221;, en primer lugar haciendo un intento de humildad y en segundo lugar, proponiendo una hoja de ruta para abolir la raza y crear las condiciones para unificar a la clase obrera. Pero esto es solo una fantas\u00eda. \u00bfC\u00f3mo podr\u00eda imaginarlos siendo aconsejados por activistas descoloniales, evolucionando en su pensamiento, o yendo contra la corriente? Por supuesto, Pulgarcito nos ha ayudado a descubrir qui\u00e9nes son en realidad, pero por desgracia, no tiene el poder de convertir el plomo en oro.<\/p>\n<p><em>Este art\u00edculo fue traducido al espa\u00f1ol por Ulises Tamayo-P\u00e9rez.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[1] Estos peri\u00f3dicos constantemente me niegan el derecho a contestar a pesar de que continuamente soy difamada en ellos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-refuse-canard-enchaine\/\">http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-refuse-canard-enchaine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-dhouria-bouteldja-refuse-par-le-journal-le-monde\/\">http:\/\/indigenes-republique.fr\/droit-de-reponse-dhouria-bouteldja-refuse-par-le-journal-le-monde\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A response to the Open Letter from \u2018100\u2019 French Scholars, which singled out the author for special mention. Houria Bouteldja France is no longer a light among nations. Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Deleuze or Bourdieu are from another era. As for the ultra-white elites who offer themselves as their replacements, they increasingly deserve the name \u2018Pale\u2019, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French intelligentsia and Little Tom Thumb: the questionable ethics of the \u2018100\u2019 French academics[:es]La intelectualidad francesa y el Peque\u00f1o Pulgarcito: la \u00e9tica cuestionable de los &#8220;100&#8221; acad\u00e9micos franceses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}