As a person from France, i can assure you racism is not taught and will not be taught unless we fight for it. Yes, we're taught judging someone solely based on

As a person from France, i can assure you racism is not taught and will not be taught unless we fight for it. Yes, we're taught judging someone solely based on their skin color is wrong, but cultural racism for example is put under the carpet. As for all the atrocities committed by french republic in the colonies and on its own soil, they're not taught to us because if we as a people realize that racial hierarchies were institutionalized by "respectable" people long before Hitler came to power and continued to be official policy long after he died, we may start to ask questions and hold accountable some people who really don't want that. Two specific examples: - the "vel d'hiv" sweep is taught in schools, as an example of the nazi collaorators gathering in a stadium and deporting/murdering thousands of jews ; that the same stadium was reused for the same purpose in 1967 against algerian people is not taught in schools - Jules Ferry is revered in french schools as father of the public school system; yet schools do not teach us that he was famously racist/supremacist, and that his public school system served as a tool to colonize many regions and practice cultural genocide against many ethnicities (including a dozen on the French soil) Fortunately, we have some decent academics studying/teaching the history of racism in this country (ex: Bouamama, Ouassak, Rigouste, etc). Unfortunately, they're under relentless attacks (especially since 2015) to be shut down by the far right who accuse them of being anti-white racists and/or "islamo-leftists". If that last expression rings a bell, that's probably because "judeo-bolsheviks" was an expression used by the nazis: should it surprise us that debates about "islamo-leftism" have reached mainstream TV in a nation that's built on the blood of countless peoples?