how have insults evolved over time?

Can the current climate cause some irritability in politicians? “We must beware of the magnifying glass effect. Today’s political insults are particularly mild, compared to what our ancestors experienced”, explains Bruno Fuligni, essayist and author of the “Little dictionary of political insults”, published by Editions du Rocher. Today, the policies remain more in the nails because there is a legal framework to respect. “When you are defamed you can deny, while when you are insulted it is an image. Now you can no longer send someone back to their biological origins and call for racial hatred”, he points out.

The tone has also changed because “political life has become feminized”, explains Bruno Fuligni. “Feminization has had the effect of making the person who insults is not necessarily the one who is right. We have civilized the debate a little”, explainshe. Social networks also have their role to play: “Anyone can let their hatred speak in terms and sometimes in lamentable spelling. There is the illusion of anonymity. We have gone from slightly literary political insults to floods of insults that do not don’t fly very high.”