(Politico) French Minister for Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal today defended her probe into the influence of postcolonial studies and “Islamo-leftism” in the country’s universities.
Vidal received plenty of criticism from universities and left-wing parties after she first announced the inquiry on Wednesday into “Islamo-leftism” — a catch-all word used to pejoratively describe left-wing anti-racist activism — which some see as imported from American campuses and consider damaging for French social cohesion.
“It is an inquiry, but in the sociological sense of the term, therefore a research work or a scientific study,” she told Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview published late Saturday.
Vidal said the inquiry is not about pointing the finger at some professors.
