{"id":2494,"date":"2020-02-27T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2020-02-27T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:17:18","slug":"is-political-correctness-our-collective-insanity-the-answer-in-mr-mathieu-bock-cotes-article-entitled-lets-trash-felix-leclerca-la-poubelle-felix-leclerc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/27\/is-political-correctness-our-collective-insanity-the-answer-in-mr-mathieu-bock-cotes-article-entitled-lets-trash-felix-leclerca-la-poubelle-felix-leclerc\/","title":{"rendered":"Is political correctness our collective insanity? The answer in Mr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9\u2019s article entitled “Let\u2019s trash F\u00e9lix Leclerc”[\u2018\u00c0 la poubelle, F\u00e9lix Leclerc!\u2019] and Mr. Yannick Lemay’s cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A cartoon by Mr. Yannick Lemay (Journal de Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>, February 27, 2020) showing a mother upset that her kid is learning a song of Mr. F\u00e9lix Leclerc: \u201cThere is no way that I will let the school expose my beloved son to such things!\u201d N.B: Please watch what type of game her son is playing?
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The irony behind the cartoon above is that this story is not a fiction. It truly happened in one of Montreal\u2019s schools yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a translation of an article by Mr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9\nwho was himself the target the political correctness\u2019 absurd mob:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/02\/27\/a-la-poubelle-felix-leclerc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. F\u00e9lix Leclerc, a picture appearing in the article above with the following text written under it: \u201cThe censors are infinitely stupid!\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“The news took those who hadn’t completely lost their minds by surprise: at a Mile End school in Montreal, F\u00e9lix Leclerc’s song \u201cThe 100,000 Ways to Kill a Man\u201d [Les 100 000 fa\u00e7ons de tuer un homme] <\/strong><\/em>was taught to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write “taught” because it is no longer being taught. Following a complaint from a parent who said he\/she was offended by the representation that was made of people on social assistance, the teacher and the administration of the school decided to remove the song from the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better! To erase even the trace, the students had to tear the page on which it was written from their Duo-Tang to put it for recycling! In the trash, F\u00e9lix! In the garbage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some will only see this story as an exasperating news item. False! It is indicative of the immense stupidity of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Song<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the hypersensitivity of a parent, who wants to censor a text that triggered him\/her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the cowardice of the establishment, which lies down before the quarrelsome parent out of fear of seeing the controversy swell and explode. The dissatisfaction of a person pushes the authorities to bend the knee. What to do in front of such invertebrates? We also understand that teachers are suspicious of the excessive presence of parents in their classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the lack of culture is combining with the anachronistic spirit. To treat a classic song from Qu\u00e9bec, which evokes the moral universe of the old world and the old French-Canadian peasantry, as a vulgar political manifesto, is to offend culture and literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the name of the spirit of compromise, I heard good people proposing that this song by F\u00e9lix Leclerc be replaced by another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But which\none?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the\nisland? I can already hear a neo-feminist being offended that F\u00e9lix speaks with\nsuspicion of the miniskirt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The angry\nlark? This time, I can see someone being offended about F\u00e9lix Leclerc’s\nsympathy for the indignation which led certain young people to join the FLQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night of\nNovember 15? Especially not! He sings about independence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait for me\nti-guy? No! It excites populism and anti-parliamentary politics by saying bad\nthings about politicians!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are\nall the ingredients that make our time so indigestible. Political correctness\npushes our society to neurosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, this event was not isolated. When writing these lines, a story comes to my mind that took place in a school in Sorel in 2013. Back then, a teacher who had put in the program “The Hymn to Love” by Edith Piaf had to amputate the last lines, because there was an evocation of God bringing together those who love each other!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scandal, we talk about God in a song, two or three militant atheists will be upset! On that account, we will no longer be able to teach or admire anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\u00e9lix Leclerc is a classic of Qu\u00e9bec culture. You must enter his work and not put it in the garbage. The fact that such obvious facts should be recalled tells us well which chasm we have fallen into.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The irony behind the cartoon above is that this story is not a fiction. It truly happened in one of Montreal\u2019s schools yesterday. Here is a translation of an article by Mr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9 who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}