‘Wokism’ row overshadows launch of Paris Olympics poster
Paris (AFP) – French conservatives and far-right figures fumed Tuesday at the official poster for this summer’s Paris Olympics, complaining that a Christian cross and the French flag were missing due to “wokism”.
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Those responsible for the image were “ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history”, Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the right-wing Republicans party wrote on
Top of the list of complaints about the poster, which depicts a stylized panorama of Paris, is the absence of the cross that sits atop the Dome…