According to the conclusions of a study commissioned by SOS Racisme, the tweets mentioning the Minister of National Education and Youth are often orchestrated or recovered by political groups.
By Louis Adam
The appointment in May of Pap Ndiaya as Minister of National Education has aroused many criticisms coming from right and left: thus a surfer appeared, on November 2, before the 17th e chamber correctional of the Paris court, accused of having published racist tweets targeting the new minister.
Some tweets drowned in an ocean of messages: in a study commissioned by SOS-Raccism, the Visibrain company thus analyzed a corpus of 900,000 tweets and retweets, collected between May 20, date of its appointment, and 8 September.
In addition to the typology of the various themes exploited by the Minister’s detractors, the study especially allows us to understand how these waves are organized and structured. It shows that the subjects covered by the various accounts vary widely according to their political chapel: those linked to the positions qualified as “wokists”, “indigenist” or “Islamo-leftists” of the new minister are thus mainly mentioned by accounts linked to The extreme right, from the national rally to the partisans of reconquest !, The party of Eric Zemmour. On the side of rebellious France (LFI), criticism returning most frequently is linked to the “electoral” character of this appointment. 2>
opportunistic activism
For Dominique Sopo, President of SOS Racisme, the study illustrates in particular the mobilization “of the Zemmouriste nebula”, who was fierce to lead “a virulent, aggressive, malicious campaign, badly camouflaging a hidden racism, the color Pap Ndiaye’s skin playing an excitative role in far -right environments “. If racism targeting the minister is not necessarily explicit, he conceals, according to Dominique Sopo, an opportunistic activism.
The authors of the study underline the close link between the political calendar and the critical tweets addressed to the Minister of National Education. The main waves of tweets concerning Pap Ndiaye correspond in fact to specific periods: legislative elections, beginning of the 16th e legislature, first extraordinary session of the National Assembly, political return.
“It is during these strong political times that militant networks have mobilized”, specify the authors of the report, noting in passing that Pap Ndiaye’s positions on subjects linked to his mandate, outside the rendezvous -You expected from political life, did not arouse such massive reaction. “Of these purely statistical observations, we can deduce an opportunistic mobilization, wedged on the parliamentary calendar much more than on the positions of Pap Ndiaye”, believe the analysts.
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