I'm trying to think of any holiday, festivity, celebration or other kind of national celebratory event (in any nation, during the history of humanity) where what is being celebrated is merely the characteristics of a small group of people within society, and I can't think of anything.
Many holidays and national festivities are very old and traditional, and just celebrate some kind of event or idea, or merely exist for people to have an official day off and have a good time with family and friends.
Many nations have an official independence day in order to celebrate the very existence of the nation itself, and its people. But this doesn't celebrate what those people are, how they are like, what characteristics they have. It especially doesn't celebrate just a sub-group of people. It celebrates the country and its people as a whole.
In many countries there may be one-off or recurring events celebrating or commemorating a person or a group of people. However, pretty much in all such cases the celebration is caused by what that person or those people have done. Usually a great achievement worth of celebration. Perhaps they won a bloody war and saved the country from destruction. Maybe they were the first people from that country to visit space. Maybe they won the world championship in a major sport. Whatever it is, something of very extraordinary importance or something that just brings fame to the country, it's usually a celebration of something that those people have done, their accomplishments.
Now, consider what modern far-leftist neo-festivities are celebrating. Like "pride month" (or "this month", or "that month", or "whatever month"... They are quite quickly running out of months. They'll soon have to start overlapping all these "months".)
What is something like "pride month" celebrating? Is it celebrating a great accomplishment or achievement of significant importance? Is it celebrating an extraordinary event worth remembrance and respect?
No, it's celebrating people. A group of people. And not for something they have done or achieved. It's merely celebrating people, a fraction of the population, for how they are, their personal characteristics, and nothing else.
These people are "proud" of themselves, not for what they have done and achieved, but merely for what they are, how they are. Most of them have done absolutely nothing of any notoriety, have not advanced society or technology, have not invented anything (much less anything of great importance), have not helped or saved people, have not won any wars or sporting events. Nothing. They are simply "proud" of themselves for what they are.
In other words, it's a celebration of egoism. It's a 100% egotistical celebration. It's people celebrating themselves, and being celebrated and adulated, merely for how they are, not because of any merit or accomplishments.
This is one of the key characteristics of the modern far leftist ideology: Egoism. The elevation of oneself above everybody else, not because of accomplishments but merely because of one's own characteristics and ideologies. It's the elevation of the self, without actual merit, and the expectation that others will adulate the person for absolutely no rational reason. The exact opposite of humility and modesty.
When above I said that I can't think of any national festivity or celebration, in any nation, that celebrates people, or a person, just because of who or what that person is, rather than merit, that wasn't actually completely accurate. There is one kind of festivity or holiday, somewhat common during history, that celebrates a person for no real accomplishments, merely because of who that person is:
Holidays that celebrate a dictator.
Which is very common in totalitarian regimes. Dictators tend to be very egotistical.
When you start thinking about it, there are actually striking parallels. (For starters, most often the celebration of a dictator is mandatory and anybody who refuses, objects or criticizes it is punished.)
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