Would Irving Berlin Be Able to Publish “White Christmas” Today?

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If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in sweetness, patience, humility, and charity. (St. Philip Neri)

The doctrine of DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—requires, first and foremost, that all humans be categorized by their extrinsic circumstances, so much so that, even outside of DEI, this has become a common practice in the whole of our society. One’s melanin content, country of national origin, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, gender/sex, and economic status are the basis for these categorizations. Within those categories are many sub-categorizations and exceptions, as exemplified in the most common question regarding what constitutes a “person of color.”

A person from Asia or the Middle East may be very dark-skinned, for example, yet is considered “white” while a light-skinned person of Mexican descent may constitute a “person of color.” Similarly, a black African who emigrated to the U.S. in the past twenty years may not be as “Black” as an African American whose family has been here for 200 years. What constitutes assignment to and membership in each of these categories is very subjective, yet the application of such subjective classification is treated as unquestionable and unassailable truth.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad! You are not like us!” (St. Anthony the Great)

The Social “Sin” of Cultural Appropriation​

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Would Irving Berlin Be Able to Publish “White Christmas” Today? - Catholic Stand

The “White Christmas” composer was a Belarusian Jew who wrote songs in an era before political radicals pathologized “cultural appropriation.”

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