It is a proper replica.
A few days before the end of the year celebrations, a semantic debate took place in the European hemicycle.
In a guide to inclusive communication, Maltese Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli recommends not naming Christmas as December 25.
According to this document, to refer to a Christian holiday is
"to assume that everyone is a Christian".
An impressive linguistic turning point ... but above all ideological.
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Faced with what is qualified as an offensive, and cultural offense - by a good part of the right, the MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy has stepped up to the plate.
“
Unbelievable but true: the day has arrived.
We must now try to save Christmas that the European Commission seemed to have planned to condemn.
Commissioner Dalli considers that the term is not inclusive enough ... Folly to reach hatred for the roots that made Europe
, ”the philosopher erupted from the rostrum.
"The beginning of our era," says Bellamy
In her guide, the Maltese commissioner explained that it was no longer appropriate to say
"the Christmas season can be stressful"
, but to say that
"the holiday season can be stressful"
. The elected European right-wing took up this advice to point the finger at the fact that "
Christmas is not just the pretext for the end of the year celebrations
". “
This is the day the world we inherit was born. The beginning of our era. The benchmark from which we count our years,
”says François-Xavier Bellamy.
For him, this text is quite simply "
madness
".
"
Because to deny what connects us is to destroy any possibility of belonging to a common culture, any hope of assimilation and - thus - to open the way to the break-up of our societies, to the communitarian demands which prepare the clashes to come,
”points out the deputy who is the champion of a hard right in the line of identity.
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What to do, during his speech, make a comparison between these anti-Christmas recommendations and the European pro-hijab campaign of the Council of Europe "
in the joy
". The Community deputy subsequently attacked Commissioner Dalli: “
You did everything to deny Europe and you had the mission to serve it, but it is in vain to believe that you can destroy that.
"Before explaining, in an oratorical flight, that Christmas
" once again, will save us. "
In an interview with
Le Figaro,
the commissioner responded to the controversy several days ago: "
In no case were our recommendations binding or imposed any way of thinking, acting or even talking about European citizens
".
