Posted on 11/22/2025 7:01:19 AM PST by Starman417
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The people who claim all cultures are equal ignore those fleeing one culture to live, protected, within another.
All religions are definitely NOT equal. But that was not the original author’s point. He seems to have a more materialistic, secular-capitalist understanding of Western prowess.
Our teacher told us their civilization was equal to ours, and we should never think that any civilization was superior to any other. Doing so would be “ethnocentric”, which apparently was a belief that our society was superior to others.
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It’s absurd. Some ideas are so stupid, only an Intellectual could believe them. Even a modicum of thought will prove this is a false assertion, because it necessarily follows that if no culture is objectively better than any other, then none is any worse.
Academia has this weird strain where there is an assertion there is no objective truth, no reality, no right or wrong, people are just interchangeable meat sticks, and no thing is better or worse than anything else.
It’s an anti-humanist, marxist perhaps form of indoctrination intended to tear things apart, maybe a subset of deconstruction or critical theory.
They are destroying higher learning, Science, Math, and so many of the hard disciplines in favor of fairy tales, superstition, and Lysenkoist twaddle. I did not have this on my Bingo card. I truly thought genuine academics was immune to this. I was wrong.
And then there are the sub-cultures within our general culture.
This is nothing new. Morons are stupid. That's what they are.
Another lie—women and men are the "same".
Only men should be allowed to work as "beat cops". Naturally, women are a better fit to be nurses.
It used to be "common sense" but we've had propaganda for decades now so this is no longer the case.
That skid needs to be steered into. Women should be drafted to be beat cops. Let them get their equality right up close and personal. It would help put an end to all this nonsense parroted by pampered women who believe television and movies.
He seems to have a more materialistic, secular-capitalist understanding of Western prowess.
It’s not just cultures that are not equal, it’s people.
It’s obvious that everyone perceives the world through values and perceptions rooted in their own experience, at least initially. Being self-aware of that is useful when studying or trying to deal with cultures not your own.
Value judgments about the relative cultural superiority, etc., are a related but different matter. I can “understand” that honor killing is a common and morally acceptable practice in some muslim cultures, yet vehemently disapprove. Those who sell a bill of goods that fear of “ethnocentrism” should paralyze our moral agency can ESAD.
Slowly, then suddenly...
Bravo to you ! One cannot say it better 🙂
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