A columnist, committed enough to the anti-racist cause to write the script for the award-winning 12 Years of Slavery, lashes out at Gone With the Wind because he interprets it as glorifying slavery. A television network as prestigious as HBO reads that column and interprets it as a condemnatory sentence that must be followed. So he proceeds to remove a jewel from the cinema from his catalog and hurries to announce it to impose social forgiveness.

Benefiting from the spiral of silence among the moderates as well as from the fear of scandal fueled by well-organized radical collectives, a new obscurantism is spreading among us. In imitation of radical Islam, he launches his fatwas against any cultural or artist manifestation that dares to disagree with the identity dogma . And it is no longer content to exercise its fanatical censorship on the present but rather projects it on the past, trying to filter history by the narrow criteria of postmodern activism, in an exercise of historicist adanism and moralizing colonialism that has been common to any form of totalitarianism, be it under a religious theocracy or a political dictatorship like Nazism or Communism. This new censorship does not come from the clash of cultures but is exercised by Western civilization against Western civilization. And if it continues like this, it will end Western civilization.

It is not an isolated anecdote. Little Britain has been removed from Netflix and the BBC itself; Song of the South , by Disney; And Paramount announces the withdrawal of the new season of Cops for fear that the public is not old enough to distinguish between representation and propaganda , between fictional police and the assassin of George Floyd. The acquittal in court of Kevin Spacey, expelled from House of Cards, or the ordeal of Woody Allen, forced to defend himself in his memoirs, are still recent. Even glassy theories are poured into pictures from El Prado that would enhance a "culture of rape". As if the repudiation of rape did not figure, from Homer and the Bible, in all the cultural codes of our civilization.

Some censure or censor themselves for cynicism, cowardice, or economic calculation. But the censor in good faith never calls what he does censorship . He calls it sensitivity, ethics, respect for minorities. That means political correctness: to claim the right to forcibly correct the other, although not breaking any law, under the puritan pretext of improving the world. But the best products of the human spirit would not have been born without the freedom to scandalize, provoke, and question even the most revered. It took many centuries and many martyrs to tear art from the catechism domain . If liberal, conservative or progressive consciences do not offer resistance, we will continue to go back to dark times.

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