# Why I Left the Left: From LFI to Right-Wing Views - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116464054776517046 - Source account: [@myriampalomba](https://x.com/myriampalomba) - Source language: French - Target language: English - Duration: 2:47 - Published: 2026-11-01 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/fr/pourquoi-j-ai-quitt%C3%A9-la-gauche-de-lfi-aux-id%C3%A9es-de-droite.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views) And I'm here to explain why there are people who turn away from the left and begin to adopt what are called right- wing views. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=6) I started getting into politics when I was about... when I started high school, so I was between fourteen and fifteen. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=11) Then I started falling into the trap that says the left is good and the right is bad. I became more involved in the extremes. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=16) So I was really into France Insoumise, I called myself a communist, I was there to take on fascists. I was young, really. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=21) And I didn't ask myself questions, I didn't question the truth I was given because to me, it had to be true. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=25) I went to France Insoumise drinks because I felt I belonged to a community and a kind of revolution. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=29) It was all one big joke in the end. I began to question the ideology I was being fed when I realized that the left was yielding to identity- based and communal struggles that weren't necessary in France. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=39) Those famous decolonial summer camps. So when they started discriminating against a population based on the color of its skin, namely white people, I said, “Hey, that's racism.” [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=47) And they replied, “No, it isn't, because you're a privileged white heterosexual male, shut up.” So I thought, “Wait, just because I'm, well, the norm here, I should apologize.” [0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=57) So then, I began to understand that actually, it was mainly ideals that were completely won over to neoliberal causes in the sense of, “we defend our little community, our little selves, our little space.” [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=66) So I said to myself, “Actually, these people are liars, these people are traitors.” [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=70) And I didn’t want to belong to the camp of liars and traitors. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=73) And then there are classes where teachers spread their propaganda. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=75) When we ask why, Éric Fassin answers, it’s an article. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=79) That’s all. It’s… They have the truth, and you’re wrong. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=83) They have the virtue of saying, “We, we’ve done research in social sciences.” [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=85) But wait, I too, can do research in social sciences if I want to. I mean, in practical terms, it’s within everyone’s reach. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=89) So, these people are part of the dominant ideology. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=91) They're right, you're wrong. That's just how it is. [1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=93) All progressive struggles, beyond leveling down, that's what it is. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=96) At my university, the professors talk about it constantly. [1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=97) It's always a vision of society with an oppressor-oppressed relationship. So, if you're lucky, you're an oppressed person, like… And if you're not, you're an oppressor. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=107) So obviously, once again, I'm the white male cishet, whatever. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=111) Actually, concretely, no. Things can't work like that because we can't invent an imaginary culprit for all these causes by projecting personal problems, passing them off as social facts and saying, “Oh, well, there you go, we've got a culprit to exterminate.” [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=121) Because there's a lot of hatred behind that too, I think. [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=124) And every class, it was a new battle of oppressed victims, according to these definitions. So first, there were women, then homosexuals, then transgender people, then Black people, then Muslims. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=133) And every time, it was, “Oh my God, these people are oppressed. [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=136) Oh my God, we have to apologize to them and grovel.” [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=139) That’s how I put it. I’ll never apologize for who I am because, well, I’m someone with my head screwed on straight. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=145) When I tell people at my university that I’d like France to become France again, I’m the fascist. So from that point on, there can be no more discussion. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=150) Besides, it’s always the people who avoid debate. [2:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=152) Once, I’d shown a guy why anti-white racism was a reality and why was he talking bullshit. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/cCVu1qlFh8rW/en/why-i-left-the-left-from-lfi-to-right-wing-views?t=157) He sulked. Well, he left. These people avoid debate, actually, every time because they know they are wrong.