Discover the podcast "Deconstructing prejudices"

Listen to the podcast: Episode #6 – Deconstructing Prejudices 

Discover the podcast entitled "Deconstructing prejudices" produced by the fund of January 11

With POSSIBLE CITIZENSHIP and THE SHOAH MEMORIAL

With Jacques Fredj, Director General of the Shoah Memorial and Iannis Roder, teacher and training manager of 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 displayed on the frontons of our town halls: Liberty, equality, fraternity.

Racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Muslim hate acts, to which homophobic acts are added, multiplied in 2019, reaching rarely known levels. In 2020, the containment period made the bed of conspiracy theorists and exacerbated antagonisms. Otherness more than ever seems a threat.

So, what are these acts the symptom of? Prejudice most often. Those who essentialize a group by enclosing it in a fixed and stereotypical identity. Prejudices that are most often fantasised, nourished by a family or social environment, and which end up poisoning relationships by leading to withdrawal into oneself, and increasingly often to violence.

At a time when many debates and demonstrations against racism are shaking the world landscape, what to do? Observe, certainly. Act, certainly. But how?

This podcast goes to meet two structures, Possible Citizenship and the Shoah Memorial, engaged in the deconstruction of stereotypes. Through their programs, they accompany young people and adults, professionals and teachers by empowering them and helping them to become aware of their own bias.