July 28, 2024
France celebrates wokery instead of athletes at its Olympics opener
By
Monica Showalter
Are
Le French bored with the Olympics already?
You know, like the little
disgruntled Frenchman at the cafe in the 1994 DHL ad, complaining about
le bourgeois businessmen waiting for their packages and saying they can wait?
You'd almost think so given the strange
ennui and decadence seen in the opening ceremony.
Their opener was loaded with offensive and irrelevant distractions at the expense of its athletic purpose, making one wonder if they were interested in the Olympics at all.
There was of course the blasphemous woke section featuring drag queens led by a morbidly obese person with the stage name '
Barbara Butch' playing the Virgin Mary in a Bahomet getup and halo reenacting the Last Supper, with a blue Pan-like nearly naked man being presented on the serving platter, eating food himself. It as all about some kind of "inclusion," they later claimed. Actually, it was a mockery of Catholicism, an odd thing to mock in a country where cathedrals are being set on fire and priests are being stabbed by Muslim fanatics.
A tech company has since pulled its ads, and the higher quality of Catholic bishops in the U.S., such as Robert Barron of Minnesota and Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, have condemned the mockery of Christians from what is supposedly a Christian country, some asking if they'd like to try that on Muslims. Since then, even French bishops have spoken up. The Olympics themselves are reportedly pulling the video, based on viewers tuning out.