Called a “Marxist” and a “communist”, the instigator of the petition having forced the exclusion of a guest from Everyone is talking about itAnne-Marie Ménard, has been facing insults since Sunday, but is not backing down from her position.
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“I don’t think he even understands what those words mean. I’m not a Marxist, I’m a feminist,” she told Isabelle Maréchal on Monday, in an interview on QUB radio at 99.5 FM Montreal.
It all started on Saturday evening, when Anne-Marie Ménard, followed by more than 80,000 people on Instagram, launched a petition against the presence of the two co-hosts of the Lucide Podcast at the Sunday meeting.
“I went into this very naively. While eating sushi on Saturday evening, I said to myself: “Let’s go, we’re starting a petition.” I did not know that in 24 hours, we would receive more than 25,000 signatures,” says the woman who has been denouncing for a year the speech of these men whom she describes as “retrograde, violent and outdated in 2024”.
At the last minute, on Sunday, TLMEP disinvited the co-host of the Lucide Podcast, Joël McGuirk, citing that his presence caused “a lot of adversity” and that we preferred to “rebalance the set”.
In response, McGuirk lashed out on social media, calling Anne-Marie Ménard a “Marxist,” a “communist” and saying “karma’s a bitch.”
For the instigator of the petition, which now has 28,000 signatures, the issue was not censorship, but rather the legitimacy granted to these speeches.
“It’s a privilege to have access to platforms like Everyone is talking about it. We simply should not amplify the discourse because that is a way of legitimizing it,” she explains, recalling that these people maintain their own platforms of expression.
*This text, generated with the help of artificial intelligence, was reviewed and validated by our team based on an interview carried out at QUB.
