The political class denounced with lively and fair unanimity the threats against Marwah Rizqy. We guess his terror, his torment.
We are sorry, however, that the denunciation of this violence is instrumentalized to put the Conservative Party of Quebec of Éric Duhaime on trial, as if a part of the political and media class finally has the opportunity to anathematize a party that she despises, to expel him from the perimeter of respectability.
Because it is a mistake to believe that political aggressiveness is housed in a single place in the public space.
Aggressiveness
Alas, we are contemporary with the global warming of political passions.
Consensualist democracy where fifty shades of center clashed is no more.
The social bond has been torn, social media promote pack logic and lynching impulses, ideological fanaticism is reviving, and the conditions for civic dialogue have collapsed.
The examples are numerous and come from everywhere.
Just think of the antifa movement, which exercises real urban terror by giving itself the right to use political violence against those it assimilates to fascism – especially since it assimilates anything to fascism.
Let us think of the particularly violent race riots of the summer of 2020 in the United States, in the name of “anti-racism”, under the tender gaze of the media.
Consider woke fanaticism on campuses.
Let’s think of the illuminated of the Capitol in January 2021.
Or to the radical fringe of the trucking movement in Ottawa in 2022.
Let us also think of Richard Henry Bain and his failed terrorist attack against Pauline Marois and PQ activists in 2012.
Policy
Allow me to add my little testimony: it is from the radical left, and from those who claim to speak in the name of diversity and tolerance, that I receive my share of hateful messages every day.
It is necessary to denounce aggressiveness in all its forms, without being satisfied to see only one part of the problem.