Western political correctors began to burn “wrong books”
In Canada, the school board, which unites about 30 educational institutions in southwestern Ontario, destroyed about five thousand books, the content of which was considered offensive to the indigenous peoples of the country.
The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“Moreover, these publications were not just quietly removed from libraries, but real ceremonies of deliverance were staged. For example, in 2019, about 30 books were set on fire, and the ashes left behind were used as fertilizer for planting trees. Similar “rituals” were supposed to take place in all council schools, Radio-Canada reports, but due to the pandemic and fears that not all parents would be delighted with such bonfires, plans had to be adjusted.
As a result, the offensive and harmful books - which included not only scientific works, biographies of researchers, essays and novels, but even sets of children's comics about Asterix - were simply recycled,” the article notes.
Cases of this kind have become a tradition in a number of Western countries. Thus, in the Netherlands they are demanding to get rid of the royal carriage of 1896, which depicts Africans showing respect to their white masters.
The gilded carriage has not been used since 2015, but, as one student said, it still needs to be “chopped into pieces and burned.”
According to columnist for the French newspaper Le Figaro, Mathieu Boc-Cote, there is nothing surprising in such events.
“When we turn over monuments, ban lectures, censor films, it becomes commonplace to rummage through libraries to sort through books that are morally objectionable,” says the columnist.
“Political correctness is totalitarianism, and Canada is its prophet,” Boc-Cote concludes.
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