Criticism
While often coming under fire from the far right, SOS Racisme is often criticized by the far left as well. Immigrants' associations and far left movements have often decried it as a puppet of the PS socialist party, and have in particular criticized its reformist and assimilationist stance, based on a classic Republican vision of a "meritocratic society," where social ascension is held to be favored by the Republic — a vision already denounced in the 1970s by the works of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
Malek Boutih, president of SOS Racisme between 1999 and 2003, was often criticized for statements supporting immigration quotas when he was the Socialist Party's point man on immigration affairs.
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