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Discover the podcast entitled "Déconstruire les préjugés" produced by the fonds du 11 janvier
With POSSIBLE CITIZENSHIP and THE SHOAH MEMORIAL
With Jacques Fredj, director general of the Shoah Memorial and Iannis Roder, teacher and training manager at the Shoah Memorial
It will not have escaped anyone that the period we are going through, is strongly shaken including in the certainties of the Republic which are posted on the pediments of our town halls: Freedom, equality, fraternity.
Racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Muslim hate acts, to which homophobic acts are added, have multiplied in 2019, reaching rarely known levels. In 2020, the lockdown period made the bed of conspiracy theorists and exacerbated antagonisms. Otherness, more than ever, seems to be a threat.
So, what are these acts symptomatic of? Prejudice most often. Those who essentialize a group by enclosing it in a fixed and stereotyped identity. Prejudices that are most often fantasized, nurtured by a family or social environment, and which end up poisoning relationships by leading to withdrawal into oneself, and increasingly to violence.
At a time when many debates and demonstrations against racism are shaking the world landscape, what should be done? Take note, of course. Act, certainly. But how?
This podcast goes to the meeting of two structures, Possible Citizenship and the Shoah Memorial, engaged in the deconstruction of stereotypes. Through their programs, they support young people and adults, professionals and teachers by equipping them and helping them to become aware of their own biases.
