Posted on 01/12/2015 4:13:43 PM PST by kanawa
Fueling the Western paralysis in dealing with radical Islam is the late 20th century doctrine of multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism is one of those buzzwords that does not mean what it should. The ancient and generic Western study of many cultures is not multiculturalism. Rather, the trendy term promotes non-Western cultures to a status equal with or superior to Western culture largely to fulfill contemporary political agendas.
On college campuses, multiculturalism not so much manifests itself in the worthy interest in Chinese literature, Persian history, or hieroglyphics, but rather has become more a therapeutic exercise of exaggerating Western sins while ignoring non-Western pathologies to attract those who see themselves in some way as not part of the dominant culture.
It is a deductive ideology that starts with a premise of Western fault and then makes evidence fit the paradigm. It is ironic that only Western culture is self-critical and since antiquity far more interested than other civilizations in empirically investigating the culture of the other. It is no accident that Europeans and Americans take on their own racism, sexism, and tribalism in a way that is not true of China, Nigeria or Mexico. Parody, satire, and caricature are not Chinese, African, or Arab words.
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only white countries have been suckered into this crap. nowhere else has the majority culture been taken down nd rejected for’the ske of minority cuktures that are only looked at for their positives and never their negatives.
the destruction of europe, north america above mexico, and australia, is the desired effect.
not a coincidence these places are where christianity has had its roots.
Multi-culturalism is anti-westernism... Period.
I don’t think Eastern Europe has this problem with Islam. I don’t hear of muslim rampages in Bucharest or Warsaw. Russia had that theater massacre but unfortunately a lot of the dead in that situation was the result of the rather ham-fisted way the Russkies go about hostage rescue and there was Beslan of course.
Japan doesn’t allow muslims into their country. You don’t hear of this crap happening in Tokyo.
Took a class once in African History. Turned out it wasn’t really about Africa at all. The textbooks, instructor and students weren’t really interested in African history.
The class was pretty exclusively about the history of the oppression of Africans by white people. Thus it was really the history of white people in AFrica.
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That jumped right out at me too.
It may have once been some twisted form of “multi-culturalism” but it has evolved to pure uni-culturalism, pure pro-islamism.
Multi-sourced hatred for all things Western has evolved into a fanatical love for muslim fanatics.
Uh, guy...that train already left the station. It’s a cooked deal.
As I read yesterday, the real thrust of “multiculturalism” has been to open the borders to “anything but white” to end the tyranny of so-called “White Privilege”.
They’ll have it in 20 years.
Let’s clarify. Most cultures can get along but Islam must dominate. It’s Islam that negates multiculturism. There might be sects in other cultures/religions that are problematic but all of Islam has a mandate that makes tolerance impossible tolerant Muslims exist but they are far from the core.
It called to mind the Oct/14 issue of Imprimus that featured an essay
by William Voegeli called, The Case Against Liberal Compassion
summarizing the arguments in his book, The Pity Party”.
He speaks of the Satisfaction of Pious Preening
the motivation for which parallels what VDH has put forward.
I did some searching and it’s available on line...
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/Imprimis_Oct14.pdf (in pdf form)
or here in html format...
http://kitcorp.org/case-liberal-compassion/
Deserves its own thread...
...and already has one...
The Case Against Liberal Compassion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3225246/posts
Thanks, I’ll check it out a little later. I’m having a heck of a time reading and typing today, not sure if I’m getting a cold, the flu or if it’s sinuses—I hope it is just sinus pressure.
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/Imprimis_Oct14.pdf (in pdf form)
The trouble with “multiculturalism” is that the commie college kids and their Marxist “perfesers” made sure the American culture was tossed out of it.
Well, sort of, but completely aside from the old muslim empires...
Genghis Khan understood muslims. That is why the only cities he utterly destroyed and razed to the ground and killed all the city’s inhabitants were Islamic cities. With all other non-muslim cities, he captured them and added them to his empire while allowing the citizens to keep their religions and cultures.
For starters, I think cultures that mutilate the genitalia of prepubescent girls are vastly inferior to Western culture.
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