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ANALYSIS. According to internal security expert Éric Delbecque, we must fight against ideologues who, by manipulating words, prohibit the analysis of reality.
By Eric Delbecque
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Ihe tragedy in Annecy confirms this for the millionth time: the debate on the rise of violence in our society most often has neither head nor tail and only serves one or the other to take advantageous postures. Once again, the term “decivilization” has been disguised, distorted, used in order to shrink reality instead of explaining it. Impossible debate? Of course, in many ways. From now on, one cannot look at a situation and decipher it without having to justify the use of such and such a word or dispense with it if a hysterical watchdog of paranoid antifascism or an aggressive barker of the most stupid racism used two days or ten years before you…
This is the case with the words “decivilization”, “wildness” or even “security”, terms v…
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