Un racisme qui vient d’en haut À propos de la fabrication politique, médiatique et savante d’un consensus anti-immigrés

24.4.12

Un racisme qui vient d’en haut À propos de la fabrication politique, médiatique et savante d’un consensus anti-immigrés: [alterinfo.net] The election results confirm the hypothesis that areas most affected by the FN vote are not those where there is more immigrants or foreigners, but often those where politicians vied to demagoguery and xenophobia with the FN.
During the 1980s and 1990s in particular, it has become increasingly common to make foreigners responsible for unemployment, crime and public deficits, to prophesy the invasion, the end of the Republic or the "clash of cultures "fantasize about Africa, polygamy , the Islamic headscarf or "suburban ghettos" , and defend "national identity" , the "right of blood" or "bias". These are the Presidents of the Republic and the Prime Ministers of all persuasions, who called for "replacing the immigrant labor by a national workforce," and who spoke of "invasion" of "threshold exceeded tolerance "to" overdose of immigrants 'or' right questions of the National Front. " The man who complained of noise and the smell of immigrants ended up at the Elysee [1 ].
This trivialisation of racist or xenophobic stereotypes owes much, also, opinion leaders that are the mainstream media. Journalists, editors and media intellectuals indeed bring these stereotypes the semblance of professionalism and moral respectability that they lack, and that is not enough to give them the political world, largely discredited. The statements of Jean-Marie Le Pen evidenced, for example when invoking the scientific authority of Jean-Claude Barreau, former President of the INED (National Institute of Demographic Studies) and special advisor to François Mitterrand then Charles Pasqua and Jean-Louis Debre:
"From the mouth of the specialist, he became thirty years in our country more than 10 million foreigners, including 5 million Muslims, and he now has over 6 million more legal one or two of illegals and more " [2 ].