Isn't it peculiar, how quickly those on the woke liberal Left move to forgive discrimination, especially when it's practised by one of their own? In the case of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chilling penchant for parading around in Blackface, absolution from his woke acolytes was delivered at supersonic speed. Gobsmackingly, Trudeau went on to 'win' the 2019 General Election. His victory, with an astonishingly low 39% of the vote, was won with the blind support of the mainstream media and, crucially, the ability of the woke Left to compartmentalise his 'indiscretions'.
Remember this 'bigoted' Democrat? Until it was politically expedient for him to believe otherwise, President Obama once thought that gay marriage was wrong - by today's standards, an unforgivably homophobic stance. Not so long ago in 2008, President Obama stated in an interview with MTV that 'marriage is between a man and a woman'. Unsurprisingly, the woke LGBTQ+ establishment, who claim to (but do not) speak for all LGBTQ+ people, didn't take long to embrace him back into the woke fold and forget his past crimes.
The less said about forgiving Jeremy Corbyn his support for anti-Semitism and terrorist groups, or the current US presidential frontrunner Joe Biden for his links to the Klu Klux Klan, the better...
That's why it's worrying when in the face of the recent horrific murders by Islamist terrorists just across the English Channel, leaders on the woke Left are strangely silent. Time after time, they want to skip the blame phase, move on too quickly and in doing so, wipe the massacres from the public consciousness. In yesterday's The Canadian newspaper, Trudeau alluded that it is the fault of the victims when beheaded by terrorists, because they failed to acknowledge that 'freedom of expression has its limits'. Then, there's the all too predictable faux-concern for Muslims and any potential hate that the woke Left says they will experience as a result of such attacks - this is patronising and yes, racist.
There are some things we should not move on from at lightening speed: institutional anti-Semitism and terrorism being just two of them. We cannot simply forgive and forget without acknowledging real evil and seeking redress for the actions of the perpetrators. Sickeningly, these woke individuals give barbaric extremists the world over excuses for their behaviour, something never granted to those they disagree with politically over far lesser offences.
The
woke Left never forgives those on the Right. They treat co-called offensive comments and actions with outrage of such ferocity, you'd think
they were directing them at the terrorists. Essentially, the woke agenda involves demonising and refusing to move on from even a tweet if it's posted by someone on the Right, while giving a free pass to extremists and terrorists.
To
build a safer world, we all need to show what
Christian minister and leader of the civil right movement, Martin Luther
King Jr, would have preached: some good old-fashioned Christian
justice and forgiveness. We need to put a person's indiscretions, faults or
differences into perspective. We need to say who's the real facist (Adolf
Hitler) and who's just a Conservative (Boris Johnson); who's a terrorist (the IRA, ISIS and Antifa) and who are the true peaceful protesters (not BLM). We need to condem
real endemic racism on our own side (Jeremy Corbyn) and not simply move to brush
it under the carpet.
If we are going to take a punitive approach to those we disagree with, we must act similarly with our own side. Oh, and we really must take time to condemn the terrorists and mean it.
