For a former spokesperson, Thaïs d’Escufon seems to lack words. The video creator and far-right activist is known for her racist comments. In this article, we reported her words to you as she stated: “I will never date a black or an Arab”.
Who is Thaïs d’Escufon?
As a reminder, Thaïs d’Escufon is the former spokesperson for the far-right Génération Identitaire movement. White nationalist and Islamophobic, the movement was dissolved in March 2021 due to its “hate speech inciting discrimination or violence towards individuals because of their origin, ethnicity and religion.. This time, the 25-year-old activist is confronted with her misogynistic positions.
Face to face with Melissa Amneris
Thaïs d’Escufon was the guest of the podcast Carla pour toi, an extract of which was published on December 12 on Tiktok. In front of her is another guest, Melissa Amneris, a content creator who claims to be a feminist. In other words, the clash of the titans.
“What differentiates you from religious fundamentalists?Melissa asks Thaïs who justifies her question by quoting the activist. You’re talking about the authority of the husband over his wife, you’re talking about preserving yourself for marriage, at least as much as possible by trying to have a bodycount which is very low…” To which Thaïs d’Escufon responds: “I never said that.”
Her opponent goes on to cite her positions on how women should or should not dress, specifying for example the fact of not “not be in a miniskirt”. “These are still things that we find a lot in religion”she points out to him.
Evidence of his misogynistic comments
When confronted with her contradictions, the far-right activist responds: “sorry but it’s still funny that someone comes to tell me to be a religious fundamentalist when sorry but the most fundamentalist religion on the issue…”. A sentence that she will not finish, cut off by her interlocutor, but we then understand that it is about the Muslim religion.
Genius of editing this video, while Thaïs d’Escufon denies, dozens of his tweets appear, attesting to Melissa’s words. And you don’t have to look very far on the young woman’s social media to find evidence of her built-in misogyny. “The primary purpose of a woman is to give access to sex to the man she selects”, she posted on December 5. “To be submissive to your husband simply means to trust him,” she said on May 17. “Male infidelity is less serious than female infidelity” or even “the pursuit of consent extinguishes women’s desire. A timid “no” often hides a “maybe”, we still read on his X account.
The difference with a religious fundamentalist
Faced with this first unconvincing response, his interlocutor insists. “What makes you different, apart from the fact that it is a cross and not a crescent, from not being a religious fundamentalist?”, she asks him again, the cross referring to the religious sign of the Catholic religion and the crescent to that of the Muslim religion.
Thaïs d’Escufon then pretends to be shocked and even not to understand the question before avoiding answering it completely.. “I find it so strange as a comparisonshe said. But in fact why I say that men have criteria for being a man of value is that, for example, economically, he ensures or inspires a feeling of security in his partner quite simply because that is what which the girls actually ask for. Sorry, but those who want to veil women aren’t actually me.”
Which girls? Those of his small far-right group perhaps…
