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France has hardened its defense on any far-left attempts to infiltrate their country’s structure. Recently the government issued a ban on the use of gender-neutral terminology in schools, saying that the push by the “woke” leftists is a threat to the French language and their culture altogether.
“The country’s education ministry issued the ruling last week after a push to include full stops in the middle of written words – dubbed ‘midpoints’ – which allow both male and female forms to be represented simultaneously,” The Daily Mail reported. “In French grammar, nouns take on the gender of the subject to which they refer, with male preferred over female in mixed settings.”
The Académie Française, a nearly 400-year-old institution that guards the French language, pushed back on the attempt to make the language woke, saying that it is “harmful to the practice and understanding of [French.]”
Nathalie Elimas, the State Secretary for Priority Education, said that the attempts to make the language “woke” were “the death knell for the use of French in the world.”
“‘With the spread of inclusive writing, the English language – already quasi-hegemonic across the world – would certainly and perhaps forever defeat the French language,” she argued that the move would not make the language more popular and instead would drive people to learn English instead.
France’s leftist teacher’s union, the SUD Education Union, issued a statement attacking the ban and called on schools to ignore it.
“SUD Education demands from the Minister that he stop trying to impose his backwardness on the educational community,” the statement said. “SUD calls on staff to take no account of these instructions from another time, and to exercise as they wish, depending on professional situations, the full use of their pedagogical freedom.”
