“While journalist police try to replace engaged intellectuals, the hunt for the heretic, on the basis of absolute media consensus, has been substituted for critical discussion and polemical argumentation. Mild and diluted defamation, righteous denunciation, mimetic bien-pensante informing, give the witch hunt a French style. The taste for informing spreads in the editorial boards: they prepare a list of suspects, they take inventory of the “ambiguous” and the “equivocal” (the “not clear”), they work to monitor nearly all deficiencies of ideological “correctness” […]. The heretic hunter doesn't inquire, he doesn't discuss, he denounces, he tracks, he puts away those he designates as criminals and enemies, even absolute enemies.”
