The Eaton Center, Toronto’s largest downtown mall, has just announced that it will not be gifting the city with that massive, gorgeously decorated Christmas tree it has been featuring for several decades now. The official announcement failed to use the word “Christmas,” referring to the iconic seasonal attraction as a “holiday” or “signature” tree.
The implication is both obvious and ludicrous. In the “progressive” West, any celebratory reference to the Ideas, Values and Traditions that have made us what we are, are mere expressions of an arrogant White Supremacism. We are literally being asked to cancel our cultural history. At the heart of this initiative is the Left’s devotion to “inclusiveness,” the disparate ideas and values evident throughout the species being an impediment to the realization of that hallowed goal. Yes, in spite of our academics’ constant belittlement of the ignorance of the “populist” masses, it is they who have actually banished rational critical discourse on the relative merits of the world’s various Cultures. It is not the substance of those Cultures which concerns them, but rather the extent to which they “abuse” their power. Success, as is always the case on the Neo-Marxist Left, is inevitably deemed to be oppressive. Hence the relative silence in the mainstream media and throughout academia on the abominations typical of various dysfunctional, authoritarian, poverty-stricken, non-Western regimes around the world, while here in the West the presence of a Christmas tree has somehow come to be seen as a vile act of intolerance.
Yet how very strange that the “systemic” racism, misogyny and homophobia relentlessly ascribed to the West, has failed to deter millions from the “third world” in their efforts to escape both Africa and South America for the friendly confines of Europe and the U.S.. Gee, is it possible that the Neo-Marxist, anti-Western narrative so popular today on the Left is just so much simplistic ideological bullshit?