Posted on 08/24/2025 9:48:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Bkmk
No, perfesser, you sold yourself a bill of goods by believing what you wanted to believe without rigorous investigation.
What's worse, is that you undoubtedly instilled those beliefs into many, many students.
We were stationed in Northern Italy in the late 60s.
While there as a preteen I’d heard my parents discuss communism but I really didn’t understand what it was.
A day trip with my parents once found us at a Yugoslavian border checkpoint manned by around a half dozen guards.
We parked, got out and my father broke out his camera and attempted to take a picture resulting in every armed Yugoslavian guard leveling their weapon at my old man, accompanied by a hell of a lot of yelling in a foreign language.
Thinking better of it, my dad put his camera back in the car and they all stood down.......that was my 1st experience with communism......and at 65 y/o, I still remember it like it was last week.
When I hear the word communism the first thing that comes to my mind is “oppression”.
Yup. At 78 now I still remember the east german guards bee lining to check my papers as we entered their zone. Being a blonde headed teen sparked their interest. But not too many folks breaking in to East Germany. My bowels were tougher then so I didn’t need to change drawers. My mom was freaked out.
The problem started when the so-called scholars adopted postmodernism which argues that realities for each group is different. This resulted in (1) no shared reality, (2) no shared morality, (3) idea that all cultures are the same and (4) no privileges to local culture.
Stupidly, only Westerners hold this suicidal ideology.
Do you support sharia law?
I’m a Muslim…
….Does your religion dictate sharia law?
… It’s not relevant…. Americans have invented this scary term called sharia law…
Lol
Those Muzzie women crack me up. Heads all covered up with scarf doohickies. Then they go full hussy when it comes to the makeup.
The problem for ideologues in favor of multiculturalism, is they favor the foreigner & foreign cultures over their own.
Over the last 50 or 60 years we had a globalist economic and political run that is now running out of steam.
As we move through the 2020’s their way of political/economic/cultural thinking is on its way out.
I would challenge any assertion that intentions at any point were good in this debacle. So they were stupid, if not complicit.
Brett Weinstein was the center of protests that pretty much destroyed Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. He was a liberal who deviated slightly from the liberal narrative, and so was made a target by the loony radicals there and drummed out of the school.
Gee...who woke HIM up!!??
It didn’t take long for multiculturalism to go from food festivals to all whites are racist, colonial oppressors. The multiculturalist don’t want to assimilate in the west. They want to eat us.
Diversity and multiculturism can be good if there is a common goal where everyone brings their different approaches to reach that common goal.
The way it is pitched today, with no common goal, it just brings chaos.
Simple example is team sports, let’s say a basketball team. If one has a team with different players who have different goals the team will not ever win. One player wants to score all the points, the other wants to dribble the ball but not pass off..another believes defense is not necessary. Another thinks that boundaries are too “controlling”...
What’s a’matta U prof?
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