The French government cautions of the new cultural totalitarianism creeping in from the U.S. and U.K. The education minister has set up a Laboratory of the Republic, called Anti-woke Think Tank, to fight back the tyranny of minorities. For the writer Brice Couturier, a member of the Laboratory for the Republic, “wokeism puts people into tribes in order to control them,” and he adds, “this is foreign to French mentality.”
