Macron is alarmed by a “society that is racialized”

“I see society gradually racializing”, alarmed Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the magazine It, by considering that “intersectional logic divides everything” because it “refers each to his identity”.

“I am on the universalist side. I do not recognize myself in a fight which refers each to his identity or his particularism”, adds the Head of State, evoking this approach which denounces the accumulation of discriminations when one is part of several minorities. For him, “social difficulties are not only structured by gender and skin color, but also by social inequality”.

“I could introduce you to young white men who are called Kévin, live in Amiens or Saint-Quentin, and who also have immense difficulties, for different reasons, in finding a job”, he replies to the director’s testimony. Amandine Gay on the difficulties of being a woman and black.

“Progress” against violence against women

Referring to his record in terms of violence against women, the day after the UN forum for gender equality, Emmanuel Macron claims “progress” but recognizes that the anti-rapprochement bracelets, put in place since September 2020 against violent spouses are still too little used. “It is gradually rising, even if 145 bracelets put on, it’s too little,” he says.

He also expressed his opposition to a delay of up to 16 weeks for abortion, deeming it in this case “traumatic”. “I am not in favor of it. Each year, 4,000 to 5,000 women go abroad to be able to do so, but it is above all a sign of a failure of our care”, according to him.

Opposed to the crop top at school

He once again says he is hostile, like his Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, to the crop top at school. “At school, I tend to be ‘decent dress required’, for both girls and boys. Anything that refers you to an identity, a desire to shock or to exist has no place there. ‘school. You can take into account a teenager’s part of whimsy and stick to certain principles. ”

Finally, it announces better management of endometriosis, a chronic disease linked to periods that affects one in ten women, with measures at the start of the school year.

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