How dare these hypocrites ‘culturally appropriate’ Christianity?

CONSIDERED a grievous crime by woke activists, ‘cultural appropriation’ involves copying, borrowing and in some cases exploiting things from a culture that is not your own. White, heterosexual, privileged men and women are targeted on the basis that they are the products of a capitalist society riven with structural sexism, racism and heteronormativity.

Peter Sellers playing an accident-prone Indian in the film The Party, Laurence Olivier as Shakespeare’s Othello and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada blackfacing are all guilty.

[…]  Nothing reveals the cultural-Left’s hypocrisy and double standards more than its condemnation of anyone considered guilty of cultural appropriation while, at the same time, ignoring or accepting any on the Left who commit the same offence.

One recent example is a Canadian film that transforms Handel’s oratorio Messiah to make it politically correct and ideologically sound. Drawing on the Bible’s portrayal of the life of Jesus including his crucifixion and ascension into heaven, Handel’s Messiah is considered sacrosanct by Christians. Its story of death and resurrection remains central to the Christian faith, signalling God’s eternal love and the possibility of forgiveness and redemption.

However woke activists have transformed Messiah into a litany of politically correct vignettes. As described by Dan Bilefsky in Melbourne’s The Age in December, the singers include a ‘gay Chinese-Canadian tenor’ in stiletto heels, a ‘Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano [who] reimagines Jesus as a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf’ and an ‘indigenous singer’ singing in her native language describing the ‘snow-covered landscape’.

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