Stanford, 1987: Reverend Jesse Jackson and 500 students protest the introduction of “Western culture” courses on campus. They point, shouting. “Hey hey, ho ho, West Siv must go” (“Western Civilization Must Go”). Thirty-five years later, this battle cry is heard in the heart of our institutions, from multinationals to universities, through administrations, schools, cinemas and history books.
The foundations of our civilization, which are considered inherently racist, are being purged, replaced, repealed. The shame of being white spread. This caught fire in June 2020, when the Western world, which had been neurotic for months due to the pandemic, started an anti-racist trance after the death of George Floyd. The horrific suffocation of this black American by a white police officer becomes a picture of our morality. It is this ideological cancer that British essayist Douglas Murray examines in detail in his book
Source: Le Figaro
