Call it liberal arrogance, call it plain old nasty irreverence, call it anti-Christian dogma, call it pure idiocy. But just don’t call it bigotry. Only those who dare to even discuss — in blogs especially! — stats presented recently by Stats Canada showing Canada slowly losing its heritage, traditional makeup consisting of white Anglo-Saxons and Christians, are “frantic” and full of “anguish” and are “hyperventilating”; and “kooks” and “cranks” and, alas, “bigots”, and of course “racists”, like I had to tell you. Actual words used by Canwest columnist Dan Gardner to describe what I think are most of us. Including one of Canada’s 
leading minds, Mark Steyn, who, as Gardner churlishly — if not girlishly — muses has a “bunker” in his back yard where he can “flee Muslims”. Golly, pilgrims, I think that’s another way of sheepishly insulting Steyn and calling him an “Islamophobe” without actually having the balls to come right out and say it! But then I’m a frantic hyperventilating anguished kook crank bigot racist Christian pale person. And Gardner’s not, as you can tell.
For the record, Mark Steyn, best-selling author of one of the best books in a decade, America Alone, has a broader view of the world and more intelligence in his illusive bunker’s door knob than Dan Gardner has ever even pretended to have in his fearless noggin.
And on the other side of the intelligence coin, Dan Gardner was the tolerant lover of diversity who wrote recently in another column that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was so intelligent that maybe he was ”too intelligent”. And, fully anguished, lamented on Ignatieff’s failure to get elected, “Perhaps the political culture has changed so much that someone who loves ideas, who thinks, and writes, and questions, cannot succeed in politics.” Boo-hoo-hoo (in that case).
But it takes more than a pretense of intelligence and more than simple arrogance and a trollish need to be obtuse and to offend and ridicule Christians as best you can, to come up with lines like this, interspersed between repeated use of the words “bigots”, “kooks”, and “racists”. It takes a special kind of hypocrisy, and/or a near-total lack of the real meaning of bigotry:
White folks: It’s time to chill out
… Well, I happen to care deeply about the anguish suffered by cranks and bigots and so, as a public service, I am here to offer reassurance.
Calm down, my Caucasian comrades. I’ve read the report. It’s not true that everything is going to change. In 2031, there will still be pale people worshipping a dead Jew. Lots of them. Life as we know it will go on. …
—Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen and Canwest columnist, March 2010
Pale people worshipping a dead Jew. Huh.
But please remember: You are the “bigot”. The “kook”. The “crank” who should, just to be good-natured, or something, be more like Dan Gardner, and show your great respect for all the diverse people and their beliefs and their religions, by zipping it; and “chilling”. I mean as long as you agree with them and they aren’t Christians. At which point you can insult the crap out of them and display abject hate. In blogs or newspaper chains.
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