“Offensive” books burned in Canada – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

However, books and manuscripts are far from the only ones that have been set on fire in Canada in an attempt to restore historical justice. Several churches burned down in some areas where indigenous people live last summer. This came after more than a thousand anonymous graves were discovered near the sites of former Indian children’s assimilation schools, run by the Roman Catholic Church. Prime Minister Gianstine Trudeau then condemned the fires, but said he “understands the anger directed at the federal government and institutions like the Catholic Church”. He reacted to the announcement of the book burning in much the same way, saying that “burning books is unacceptable” but also dictating to indigenous peoples what they can and cannot feel.

According to the columnist of the French newspaper Le Figaro, Mathieu Boc-Côte, such events are not surprising. “When we turn over monuments, when we forbid lectures, when we censor films, it becomes natural to rummage in libraries to sort books which are not recommended from a moral point of view,” he said. -he declares. Canada, according to the expert, has today become a diverse utopia. “Political correctness is totalitarianism, and Canada is its prophet,” Bok-Kote is convinced. The country’s authorities, according to The Week, are making the same mistakes that American politicians have adopted by the Black Lives Matter movement. “Like many Democrats in the United States, Trudeau refused to defend not only the honor of Canada in particular, but the principles of liberal society in general. That these are infringements of fundamental freedoms of thought, association and of religion, ”writes the magazine.

But not just in Canada, anything that somehow symbolizes a dark, historically unjust past is on the verge of destruction. In the Netherlands, the public is demanding to get rid of the royal coach of 1896, which represents Africans respecting the white masters. The golden coach has not been used since 2015, but, as Amsterdam student Fenna Hubijk put it, it has yet to be “cut to pieces and burned,” writes the Sunday Times.

In California, there is now a dispute over the fate of the statue of Spanish Catholic missionary Junipero Serra, which local activists are demanding to be replaced with a monument in honor of Native Americans, claiming the monk is wrongly glorified. The local conference of Catholic bishops “stood up” for Serra, saying he instead advocated a good attitude towards Indians and urged to remember that all men are equal before God. California lawmakers have approved the monument’s demolition. Now Governor Gavin Newsom will decide his fate.

The fight against the symbols of racism has even passed to science. According to ScienceNews, Cherokee scientist Stephen Hampton calls for a change of the name of the bird, the “palm-colored corpse”, which in English bears the name of the American general Winfried Scott, who participated in the forced relocation of the Indians . And the Entomological Society of America, according to the Daily Mail, has asked the public to come up with a new name for the gypsy moth, which in English is called “gypsy moth,” where gypsy means “gypsy”.