Quiz question: what was the most ridiculous event of the year? Is this…
1. A black puppeteer who was accused of racism because he had a black puppet that caricatured his own black face?
2. Ultrawoke media who wrote extrawoke columns to tell us that wokism did not exist?
3. Or the use of the phrase “front hole” to refer to the uterus in a scientific publication, so as not to offend non-binary people?
No, ladies and gentlemen… The most ridiculous affair of the year is anti-racists who think they are fighting racism by prohibiting black authors from denouncing racism, because they use in their books a word used by racists. That’s ridiculously rare!
OFFENSIVE WORDS
Can you believe that the English Catholic school board in the London district of Ontario has decided to prevent its teachers from using as required or recommended reading any book that contains the famous “n-word”.
The board explained to - that “certain books containing potentially painful language and content should not be required reading or required for assessment in our schools.”
Canadian writer Lawrence Hill, who wrote the best-selling The Book of Negroes (on the realities of slavery) denounces this situation vigorously! “Removing the ability to teach these books in classes effectively makes a serious and in-depth discussion of anti-Black racism in Canada and elsewhere in the world impossible.”
I love Lawrence Hill (who also speaks impeccable French). He is absolutely right!
I remind you that the French translation of The Book of Negroes, Aminatawon the - book fight in 2013. The Book of Negroes was such an important book that it was adapted into a five-episode miniseries broadcast on CBC in 2015, then rebroadcast in 2020.
Preventing the distribution of books that denounce slavery, under the pretext that they use a derogatory word for black people, is ridiculous!
It’s called shooting yourself in the foot, scoring in your own goal or even bananizing yourself (as the late Jacques Parizeau said).
At some point, we will have to stop being afraid of traumatizing fragile little students! We’re going to have to stop overprotecting them from exposure to even the slightest offensive word or concept! Otherwise, they will not understand anything about the world around them.
“Are we asking our high school teachers not to talk about the Holocaust during the Nazi regime in Germany?” asked Lawrence Hill in an interview on Ontario radio. “Are we asking professors not to talk about sexism and the oppression of women, the themes explored in Margaret Atwood’s books? It goes without saying that literature shakes people up and forces them to ask difficult questions about the human condition.”
DUMB TRAUMA
These brave knights of social justice in Ontario do not realize that they are censoring an author (whose father is black and mother white) by banning his book which denounces slavery?
2024 will be remembered as the year the social justice/woke/progressive/far left/equitydiversityinclusive revolution hit its wall. Can’t wait for 2025, so we can finally breathe!
