klaus kinzler is one of the growing number of victims of the woke culture. This German professor who has been teaching for more than two decades at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble (France) has suffered during the last year and a half a tremendous persecution with insults and threats, even being suspended by the institution itself school for which he worked and needing police protection.
What did? Questioning the concept of “Islamophobia” in a private email with another teacher in which they had to organize a debate with students on racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Kinzler assured in that email that this last concept was unclear and was not in France at the level of the other two. But his words were leaked to a student union, which from that moment began the hunt against him, publicly branding him a “fascist” and “Islamophobe,” posting photos of him through the IEP and on social networks and reporting his name. . His case even reached the highest political levels.
A hunt was launched against this professor with the aim of having it canceled and erased from the public sphere. But this statement could have had much more serious consequences against him. Accused of being an Islamophobe, he made him the target of Islamist groups, a few months after another teacher, Samuel Pattywas assassinated in France after having also been accused of Islamophobia.
The Grenoble IEP has had to lift Professor Kinzler’s suspension, that in principle he could return to classes in September, although he has been made to see that he is not welcome. He now he has just published his experiences of these almost two years in the book L’islamogauchisme ne m’a pas tué (Islamo-leftism did not kill me).
At the IPE in Grenoble, students painted graffiti, put up posters and threatened Professor Kinzler.
The professor denounces the end of freedom of expression carried out by the woke culture and the permissiveness of academic leaders with these attack tactics against dissidents. “We let the extremist students of the Grenoble IEP bathed in total impunity, even with the feeling of ‘omnipotence’“, he denounced in an interview with the digital Atlantic.
At this time, the professor has criticized that this center of higher studies has yielded to the blackmail of the most extremist student groups. Therefore, as he collects The ParisienKlaus Kinzler did not shrink and in the media described the institution as a institute of “political re-education”, accusing a “hard core” of their colleagues of indoctrinating students in the culture of “wokism”.
Overnight, his quiet life as a teacher changed: wave of hate on social networks, death threats, daily police protection, open investigation for “public insult”, government intervention, lack of support from the IEP directorate, etc. But he also received hundreds of messages of support, which prompted him to write this book.
In an interview with Family Chretienne Following his post, Kinzler recalls what happened:
“I was invited to participate in a debate entitled ‘Racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia’. What bothered me was this lack of rigor, on an intellectual level, consisting of highlighting anti-Semitism and racism on the one hand, and Islamophobia on the other. Antisemitism and racism, we know very well what it is, have been studied by historians, philosophers, sociologists. But Islamophobia? It is a very recent term, a very vague concept that we do not know exactly what it refers to.. Is this hostility to the Muslim religion perfectly legitimate and legal in France? Among the Muslims themselves, who would fall under the crime of racism? It is not known. I would have liked to discuss it above all because, in this case, I perceived a desire to trivialize the Shoah and a victimization of French Muslims, supposedly the new Jews. They didn’t leave me time for it… I was attacked, insulted by posters and posts on social networks…”, says the teacher.
These differences were shown by Kinzler via email with another teacher while organizing the discussion. In copy were also some students who also had to organize this day. Y that’s when this private conversation broke out on social media and on posters pasted on the Grenoble IPE.
This professor denounces the power given to this woke left in college. In his opinion, he is “particularly in the social sciences. And it’s not just the students, it’s also the teacher-researchers, who have imported theories from the United States about gender, race or ‘decolonialism’, which would not be a problem if they agreed to discuss it. But they want to impose them by force. Tolerance and debate are disappearing. If you contradict these theories, you are immediately considered the enemy to defeat. I would have liked to talk about Islamophobia, but they denied me this debate and insulted me. The worst thing is that we reject the debate in the name of science, a militant science. As for the students, either they declare themselves ‘offended’ or they become aggressive.”
Kinzler sees this position as “hypocritical” because “those who say they feel offended, for example by Islamophobia, they are the same ones that the next minute show enormous aggressiveness attacking you and defaming you with violence.”
Returning to the problem of the university, the still professor at the IPE in Grenoble also denounces that the intellectual level of the social sciences has dropped considerably. He assures that articles on issues of gender, race or decolonialism “are usually extremely poor. Its authors have read little, are very specialized and do not dominate a discipline but they are content with ‘studies’ in which they invent complicated and therefore attractive words”.
The same happens, in his opinion, with students. “His level has also dropped tremendously. Nor have they read the great works of literature. They arrive thinking they know everythinghoping that their professors will give them the scientific veneer that will adorn their prejudices”, he adds.
And he leaves a very interesting point on this aspect: “Furthermore, in a world without God, I believe that behind everything there is a search for spirituality”.
Klaus Kinzler affirms that all these beliefs of students and teachers and that they are “only ideologies” replace “that God who died since Nietzsche”. And he explains: “my students have parents who no longer go to church, they don’t know the gospels, they don’t know what faith is… The utopia of communism is also dead. At the same time they need to believe in something. We have convinced them that our Western democracy is terribly unfair. They believe in the need to save the planet and that for that it is necessary to abolish capitalism… In short, they refuse any rational debate, victims who are of a narrow dogmatism; their fight has something religious, in the worst sense of the term. So criticism of their beliefs is felt by them as blasphemy.”
Although unfair, he believes that his case has something positive, showing society what is happening: “the impossibility of free debate, the threat to freedom of expression, the indoctrination that reigns there: all that you have to know”.
The “woke” hell experienced by a teacher and the lesson learned: “Islamo-leftism did not kill me”