Below is a brief interview with the popular French commentator Eric Zemmour, who discusses the Socialist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, and specifically the latter’s remarks on French culture and the colonization of Algeria.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:00 RTL — morning. We don’t necessarily agree.

00:04 8:17 am. We don’t necessarily agree, this Tuesday morning, with Eric Zemmour.

00:08 Good morning, Eric. —Good morning. —Eric, Emmanuel Macron was in the heart of electoral polemics.

00:12 A difficult passage for the candidate, but useful to know better who he is

00:16 and what he wants. —Macron was right.

00:20 He doesn’t need a program. No need for numbers when you have letters! A couple of letters,

00:24 a couple of words and all is said. Two sentences were enough. First one:

00:28 “There’s no French culture; there’s culture in France, and it is diverse.”

00:32 The second one: “The colonization of Algeria was a crime against humanity.”

00:36 Two sentences like a signature. Two sentences that make sense,

00:40 two sentences that comprise the system. Now we know who Emmanuel Macron is,

00:44 where he situates himself politically, ideologically,

00:48 “where he’s coming from”, as the Marxists said in days of yore.

00:52 Macron is as much from the right as from the left. From the right, economically liberal, and

00:56 from the left, liberal concerning values. A “son” of Madelin and Cohn-Bendit [“Danny the Red”],

01:00 of Justin Trudeau and Hillary Clinton. Macron is a pure intellectual product

01:04 of those decades when university professors,

01:08 sociologists, historians were explaining to us that France was only a result

01:12 of countless influences coming from elsewhere.

01:16 Mixing and crossbreeding. From the South, from the North, from the West, from the East.

01:20 France is a huge, vague territory, where every immigrant, every invader

01:24 brought along his culture for the higher good of those mental retards, the French.

01:28 As if our kings, our cardinals, our emperors,

01:32 our writers, our artists, our academia, hadn’t had — with just a secular effort —

01:36 united all those influences in an original corset:

01:40 Greco-Roman and Christian, often a corset of iron,

01:44 that at one time people didn’t hesitate to call “French genius”.

01:49 The genius of a pure language, the genius of Classicism, the genius of

01:53 a thought — clear and rational. Blaise Pascal

01:57 didn’t incarnate French culture. And Racine and Rabelais and Voltaire

02:01 and Victor Hugo and Flaubert and Balzac and Chateaubriand

02:05 and Watteau and Latour and Boucher and Monet.

02:09 Everybody know that Lully came from Italy, Picasso from Spain and Cioran

02:13 from Romania. But they didn’t come to our country by accident; they knew

02:17 that French culture existed, since they wanted to soak in it

02:21 even more, and assimilate. —So there’s another quote,

02:25 concerning of the colonizing of Algeria. —Yes, but for the globalist and diverse mobility

02:29 France only exists in order to be found guilty,

02:33 but if French colonization in Algeria is a crime against

02:37 humanity, then all human history is a crime.

02:41 All the peoples on Earth were alternatively colonized and colonizer.

02:45 Algeria was already colonized by Romans, Spanish,

02:49 Arabs, Turks. France sent her armies

02:53 to stop centuries of pillage, of razzias, by barbarians

02:57 who were supplying Arab harems with European slaves.

03:01 France not only colonized Algeria: it founded it. Its name

03:05 didn’t exist. The conquest was tough, violent, merciless,

03:09 like all the conquests, but French colons, have — in the Roman way —

03:13 cultivated the soil, built towns, nursed the population, educated the children

03:17 and incidentally, discovered the oil. The population

03:22 of Algeria numbered two million inhabitants in 1830,

03:26 ten million in 1962, almost forty million today;

03:30 compare it with the number of native Americans left in the Americas