In France’s Institutes of Political Studies — where many of the country’s future political, media and economic elites are trained — associations and students who dare to hold a sovereignist, patriotic and traditionalist discourse are vilified, insulted, threatened and even physically attacked
In an open letter published on the website of the newspaper Le Figaro,
one of the most visited French-language news sites, political science
students are speaking out against the growing censorship and the lack of
room for free debate in the Instituts d’Études Politiques (IEP), or
Institutes of Political Studies, and in French universities.
In France, those Institutes of Political Studies, also commonly called “Sciences Po,” have been particularly affected by the cancel culture and woke wave coming from across the Atlantic. They are schools of higher education where many of the country’s political and media elites, as well as a part of the economic elites, are trained. This makes the presence of a growing woke-style culture within those IEPs particularly concerning for the future of a French democracy, as these students and much of the faculty increasingly take a negative view towards freedom of expression and freedom of association.
However, some students are taking a stand against this trend.
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