Boy, the culture warriors of the global left sure are brave!
All it takes is the slightest whiff of pushback to get them to start butt-covering — with obvious, clumsy lies.
Take the bizarre “Last Supper” parody that formed part of the Paris Olympics’ interminable, cringe-inducing opening ceremony: A cadre of drag queens sitting around a table in a scene that looked a lot like Leonardo da Vinci’s famous mural.
When Christians around the world rightly spoke out over the mockery of subject matter sacred to billions, the Olympic wokists at first offered a weak-tea apology.
“If people have taken any offense we are, of course, really, really sorry,” sniffed spokeswoman Anne Descamps.
Bad enough.
But then Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the fiasco, switched tactics, denying the display was modeled on “The Last Supper” and claiming instead it was meant to evoke a pagan Greek feast, complete with a man portraying Dionysus (that performer was for some reason painted blue, like perennial French favorites the Smurfs).
Baloney: An official spokesperson told The Post that Jolly “took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting.”
Plus, one of the tableau’s performers explicitly said it was the “New Gay Testament” and linked it to da Vinci’s work in a now-deleted Instagram post.
Yet now social media abounds with sneering leftists trying to suggest anyone remotely critical of the display is a frothing-at-the-mouth regressive.
(Can you imagine them daring to do that in defense of a similar jab at, say, the Prophet Mohammed? Neither can we.)
It’s straight out of the woke playbook.
Just like what the left did with critical race theory: pump it into kindergartens with Soviet-style coloring books, then when called out on it by horrified parents start telling lies.
What are you talking about?
CRT is only ever taught in colleges!
When the opposite is true, clear as day.
France once played home to serious critics of organized religion like Voltaire and Denis Diderot; it’s impossible to imagine them offering up sophomoric lampoons like this deeply dumb Olympic stunt or doing the non-apology-cum-total-denial dance after the fact in the face of public disapproval.
L’affaire da Vinci shows American-style wokeism has started to infect the rest of the world as well.
