Myth # 20 "What about the anti-racists?"
Under fundamental democratic guarantees, the anti-racist and special
interest lobbies are entitled to believe whatever they please. The problem
arises when (like the Taliban religious police) a nation discovers it has
multiple 'Departments for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice'. Then,
we're flogged with the nearest car antenna, not because the heels of our
shoes make too much noise, but because our thoughts do. No doubt, we'd
all be happier if ill-conceived Utopian societies ticked along without
requiring any of us to ever think again. Thinking rapidly becomes a privilege
the tolerance brigade is neither equipped to practise, nor prepared to
permit to those who can.
In a cynical age, these persons are unique in their unswerving devotion
to government policy, and, as good little sycophants, the government accords
anti-racist and special interest lobbies an extraordinary degree of latitude.
If some tactics appear extreme, why that's just 'exhuberance' or 'over
enthusiasm'. The anti-racist feed-bag might have more credibility, were
government funding not such a major component of the anti-racist world
view. The fact that the very term, "special interest" lobby implies
some "special", self-serving agenda, doesn't seem to concern
Canadians, or their government.
Like a mouse with a megaphone, when Canada is instructed to take on
the Internet (recently the US Supreme Court called the Internet the greatest
tool for freedom in our time), Canadian sheep are told that this brand
new way of squandering tax dollars is targeting "hate" (and,
as always) that has been obligingly defined for us as 'right wing extremism'.
The fact that the noxious Anti-Racist
Action Group's own web page was recently endorsing a planet-wide
firebombing campaign against (of all things) a chain of non-approved
pizza-joints appears to excite little interest.
As Canada unravels, the anti-racist faction is reduced to character
assassination and name calling. No doubt they have recognized that their
arguments share the twin disadvantages of being both indefensible and redundant.
They don't debate. Increasingly, they simply inflict their views on the
silent, cant-battered majority. In accordance with the "Love and peace
or I'll kill you" philosophy, these latter day disciples of Charles
Manson work ceaselessly to criminalize the very act of discussing Canada's
inescapable new realities. For the fanatical anti-racist however, no appeal
to logic will dislodge the dogma.
While the special interest crowd feathers its own nest and fiddles
while Canada burns, the anti-racist's belief in multiculturalism is contemporary
evidence of pentecostal rapture. Like their Inquisitorial forebearers,
the canon is: "Don't confuse me with the facts." The committed
anti-racist finds his ideological predecessor in accounts of charismatic
religious movements gone horribly wrong. Seeing the anti-racists joining
a long (too long) line of history's self-appointed judges, Inquisitors
and Red Guards, as you listen to their venom-spitting diatribes in defence
of multicultural 'values', you realize that the only new thing here is
the uniform.
