Cancel Culture: Tales From the Front Lines by Paul Du Quenoy

Author:Paul Du Quenoy [Quenoy, Paul Du]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General, Psychology, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9781680537529
Google: fHmZzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: 2021-10-15T21:50:30+00:00

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2 “Degas at the Opera,” National Gallery of Art (Washington), March 1, 2020-October 12, 2020

The Violent Bear It Away:

Flannery O’Connor Gets Canceled

The great Southern author Flannery O’Connor has been resurrected from the dead to bring gender equity to the victims’ roster of our current jacquerie, most of whose victims are of the white male category. In June 2020, liberal Catholic writer Paul Elie, a fellow of my nominally Catholic alma mater, Georgetown University, published a preachy article in the New Yorker titled “How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?” (answer: somewhat racist), alerting the world that the celebrated writer, who died in 1964, shockingly failed to live up to the standards of the modern progressive left. Elie suggested that if we have pure consciences of the type of which undoubtedly pristine New Yorker contributors might today approve, we should reexamine O’Connor’s “racist passages” regardless of context and “face them squarely” in our own mandatory intellectual struggle sessions with hypocrisy. His evidence for her retrograde speech and attitudes has long been known. It includes now-objectionable language expressed in the 1940s, when O’Connor was a teenage girl, but has been reinforced recently by the publication of previously unpublished private correspondence in a volume called Good Things Out Of Nazareth.

We can only imagine how many lonely and spiritually empty wokesters desperate to conform to a secular faith based on guilt purged their volumes of O’Connor’s collected works while “decolonizing” their Ikea bookshelves. But Elie’s article provoked ire at Maryland’s Loyola University, a once respectable Jesuit institution sharing O’Connor’s Catholic faith that named a student residence hall after her in 2007. Homebound students who may have glanced through their suburban parents’ back issues of the New Yorker seem to have caught wind of her thoughtcrime from perusing Elie’s article and drafted a brief but bizarre online petition worth repeating full:

Recent letters and postcards written by Flannery O’Connor express strong racist sentiments and hate speech. Her name and legacy should not be honored nor glorified [sic] on our Evergreen Campus.

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