Dominique Sopo, the long-serving president of SOS Racisme, has stated that the notion of “anti-white racism” is a concept forged by the far right and is not one of the fights pursued by his organisation.
Speaking on RTL Matin on November 11, Sopo was asked whether anti-white racism was also a combat for SOS Racisme. He replied “No”, describing the expression as an ideological construction with a clear genealogy.
He traced it from earlier far-right formulations such as “anti-Christian racism” and “anti-French racism” to the current usage of “anti-white racism”.
Sopo argued that the concept does not expand the field of anti-racism but instead reverses responsibilities by presenting white people as the principal victims of a threat attributed to black and Arab populations.
In his view, this framing serves to legitimise racist discourses and acts.
He nevertheless acknowledged that individuals can be targeted because they are white.
“People are targeted because they are supposedly white; we have already had cases,” he said, adding that such acts must of course be punished by the justice system.
He cited the example of rapper Nick Conrad and his clip Pendez les Blancs.
Sopo rejected, however, the idea of a large-scale or structural phenomenon that would threaten the white population in France and require inclusion in the core anti-racist struggle.
The interview took place amid ongoing debates following the Crépol murder case, in which racism as an aggravating circumstance has been retained (though contested by the defence), and in the wider context of the 2027 presidential campaign.
Sopo’s remarks drew sharp criticism on social media, including from Identité-Libertés deputy Thibaut Monnier, who wrote that the refusal to denounce anti-white racism “definitively disqualifies SOS Racisme”.
SOS Racisme, founded in 1984, has long been one of France’s most prominent progressive anti-racism organisations.
Following the murder of British student Henry Nowak and the widely criticised police response at the scene, Flemish MEP Tom Vandendriessche (Vlaams Belang/Patriots) has demanded a fundamental revision of the EU’s Anti-Racism Strategy, arguing that it is ideologically unbalanced…
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