The author continues:With each economic crisis, we have had this racist, anti-immigrant movement with, there too, demonstrations, protests of identity. […] We welcome them when we need them; we practice identitarianism when the economy shows that we no longer need it. But in all cases, it is about living men; children, alive; of women, alive. At the moment, in the Mediterranean, we deliberately choose to let them drown […] while continually talking about our values, our values… But what are our values? Let people drown because we don’t need them economically? But we will die of these values, which are lies. You can’t raise the youth in lies“.
In this context, says Daniel Pennac, young people have a duty to reflect: “She has a duty not to stick to imitation of what adults do because adults make mistakes sometimes. Situations change, the climate is no longer what it was forty years ago. And the reality that presents itself to them, it must indeed be analyzed by them and not received with closed eyes because it comes from mom and dad.“.