Is Marine Le Pen racist and anti-Semitic? For the philosopher and essayist Luc Ferry, the answer is clear. Guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, the former Minister of National Education affirms that, for him, the president of the RN group in the National Assembly “is not fascist”. “I know her a little. I know very well that she is neither racist nor anti-Semitic. I am sorry to say that to my left-wing intellectual friends who want at all costs to say that Nazism is coming back” , he adds to Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone.
“Marine Le Pen is the popular and republican right”
To justify himself, Luc Ferry makes the comparison with Italy and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “Look at Meloni, it’s not fascism that has returned to Italy. So all this is quite ridiculous. Marine Le Pen is the popular and republican right,” he assures. According to the philosopher, the president of the RN group in the National Assembly is less right-wing than Robert Pandraud and Charles Pasqua in 1970. “And that has nothing to do with the extreme right,” he says.
“The extreme right, like the extreme left, was revolutionary and facetious. It assassinated opponents, it wanted to take power by arms and violence. It was anti-Semitic and racist. This is absolutely not the case with Marine Le Pen, who is neither anti-Semitic nor racist and who is obviously a Republican,” underlines Luc Ferry.
“Today, everyone is Republican”
The philosopher still admits to having disagreements with the National Rally, but much more on the economic level than on the moral or political level. For him, we must stop saying that it is fascism and immorality. “It’s simply false. And the 42% who voted for her know that it’s false. And so, when we insult these people, we strengthen them. Ultimately we will make them racist if we continue. It’s an idiotic reasoning. This kind of stupid moralism of left-wing intellectuals is fascinating to me,” says Luc Ferry ironically.
According to him, these “left-wing intellectuals”, as he calls them, still have this memory of Nazism and think that it is the same thing. “That has changed. We have to be a little sensitive to changes in society. Today, everyone is a Republican, from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Marine Le Pen,” he concludes.