The Vatican's Take on Cancel Culture
Decapitating Statues of Historical Figures
Address snapshot ... Pope Francis |
"[Beware] a form of ideological colonization, one that leaves no room for freedom of expression and is now taking the form of the 'cancel culture' invading many circles and public institutions.""This view of history risks cancelling identity under the guise of defending diversity. [Representing a type of] one-track thinking [taking shape and developing fully as constraining or denial of history; rewriting it in terms of present-day sensibilities].""[Some attitudes] leave no room for freedom of expression and are now taking the form of the 'cancel culture'. Under the guise of defending diversity, it ends up cancelling all sense of identity, with the risk of silencing positions.""As a result, agendas are increasingly dictated by a mindset that rejects the natural foundations of humanity and the cultural roots that constitute the identity of many people.""Diplomacy is called to be truly inclusive, not canceling but cherishing the differences and sensibilities that have historically marked various peoples.""What is needed instead is a recovery of our sense of shared identity as a single human family. [The] alternative can only be growing isolation."Pope Francis
Cancel
culture, the darling methodology of silencing voices that progressives
in their culture of 'wokeism' infiltrating all facets of human
communication, has many newly emerging critics, none of whom voice
concerns from the pulpit of the progressives, but from within society's
conservatives and none is more conservative that traditionalists. More
neutral sources that speak with indignation of the damning work of the
progressives are historians along with individuals and groups who find
themselves targeted for their 'controversial' positions, deemed so by
progressives whose aim is silencing their critics.
A leaflet distributed at the Montreal protest described Sir John A. Macdonald as "a white supremacist who orchestrated the genocide of Indigenous peoples with the creation of the brutal residential schools system" |
It
is hardly surprising that the Catholic Pontiff now sees fit to add his
voice to the growing chorus of condemnation of this pernicious,
insulting and leftist insularity that rejects reality and history
claiming it to reek of colonialism and 'white privilege' while elevating
the victimhood issues of 'people of colour' and the socially and
gender-deprived in traditional society. At a time when convention with
respect to polarizing discrimination has turned in the opposite
direction expressing remorse and conciliation.
Woke
progressives accept nothing but abject admissions of present-day
'colonialists' that they are guilty of all the sins of their
predecessors, presumably by historical inheritance. Unctuous salutations
expressed in new language forms of address become compulsory as proof
of deserved guilt and condemnation. The wronged will be forever wronged
and deserve and expect to be elevated above the descendants of their
former tormentors. Demands that society reinvent itself so that
exceptional privileges be extended to 'victims' satisfy
vengeance-drooling accusers.
Damned
white society is slowly picking itself up, recalling that dignity must
be apportioned to all, even themselves and now question the veracity of
claims of victimhood, asking when endless reproaches will come to an end
and all people be enabled to live together as individuals no longer
divided into groups of 'the guilty' and 'the victims'. The voice of
Catholic Christianity speaks from a fear of marginalization, the
accumulating loss of faith and worship, the incidentalism of religion,
and the relegation of 'Christmas' to mere 'holiday' status.
The
re-write of history pivots from Holocaust denial and trivialization of
resurgent anti-Semitism as just desserts in a puzzling portrayal of Jews
as oriental 'others' while classifying them as part of the subset of
'white privileged' colonialists. Figures of European and North American
history with its interminable conflicts and its subjugation of
less-'developed' nations, to secure their valuable natural resources,
including the enslavement of aboriginals and indiginals, and trading in
Black slaves for forced labour is the only history recognized by the
woke. Those instrumental in maintaining white supremacy must no longer
be regarded as part of history, but trashed.
At
the Vatican, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin expressed his
concern with a draft European Union communications manual playing with
the suggestion of excising the long-venerated term Christmas, and
presumably with that, the very Christian religion itself in an
increasingly less religious continent. Who best to speak to diplomats
assembled at the Vatican, representing 163 nations of the world than a
Catholic Pontiff whose authority as god's spokesman on Earth still
resonates?
And
so, he spoke of historical situations that must logically be viewed and
interpreted in the context of their times, not by the standards of the
present day, for this is history that must be unadulterated to suit the
surly moods of its new critics, and presented as time and tide viewed
all human interactions when and where they occurred and to whom they
referred and whose circumstances they affected; not through the lens of
today's critics.
Pictured: Pope Francis warned against attempts to cancel culture, decrying 'one-track thinking' which he said attempts to deny or rewrite history according to today's standards |
Labels: Cancel Culture, Critics, Destroying Statuary, History, Pope Francis, Reality, Wokeism
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