Tolerance to minorities improves in France despite the « hate speech », especially among young people – Liberation
Reverse of « atmosphere racism » that part of the political class and diffuse mediathe French as a whole continue to show tolerance towards minorities, dismantles the annual report of the National Consultative Human Rights Commission (CNCDH), published this Wednesday, June 18.
It is thanks to « the longitudinal tolerance index » that the commission can measure each year the evolution of this feeling among the French and the French. After a record in 2022 Then A decline of three points in 2023the year 2024 has recorded its third best score since 1990, 63/100, ex aequo in 2009. And this « Despite the dissemination of speech of distrust and hatred by certain political and media spheres», Observe the CNCDH. This index is calculated each year by the researcher Vincent Tiberj From online and face-to-face surveys carried out by the CNCDH.
Not everything is pink either. The barometer, established since 1990, reveals that certain prejudices remain widely shared in those questioned: 60 % think that many immigrants come in France only to take advantage of social protection. They are also 23 % to think that the children of immigrants born in France are not really French and 46 % that immigration is the main cause of insecurity. The study points to a passage from « racism biological»To a racism expressed more around the«cultural and identity differences».
But there is hope: the young generations adhere less to « old« Racist shots, according to the CNCDH, which observes a »Strong generational polarization« : Recent cohorts see their levels of tolerance, already high, progress, while those of the oldest cohorts stagnate or retreat on these questions. The generation born between 1977 and 1986 is the only one whose index has systematically increased since 2019 and reached a historic record in 2024 (69/100).
« »The feeling anti-immigrants is the most correlated to other forms of hate« , Notes the CNCDH report. « »The more we reject immigrants, the more we reject people perceived as Jewish, Muslim, Asian, Roma, Black, and the more we oppose equality between women and men and the rights of LGBTI people« , Writes the advisory body, responsible for advising public authorities on questions related to fundamental rights.
« »Contrary to popular belief, with regard to anti -Muslim feeling, people who are hostile to Muslims are also the least attached to secularism, to equality between men and women, and the most critical towards homosexuality« , She underlines.
