T hi s is r eall y dragging out. The awakening of libs and the snail pace of it’s happening sorta proves their lack of critical thinking skills.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ve been sold a bill of goods.”
Woah! Nothing gets past this guy! Way to go, Brett. Everybody learns at their own pace, I always say.
Always remember - some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them.
Put simply, and as has been said, bring enough of “there” here, and here becomes there. For example, import the Third World, become the Third World.
You sure bought into it in a hell of a hurry.
I remember the articles in National Review, warning about the rising trend of “muliticulturalism,” back in the late 1970s and through the ‘80s.
I wish I still had my stacks of old NRs so I could look up those articles, and find the names of the pseudo-intellectuals (mostly in European universities, at first) that were pushing the “movement.” I’d like to use Google to find out what became of them.
The “critical theory” movement, and “deconstructionism,” arose at about the same time.
There has to be cultural compatibility, with priority given to the original culture of the nation and then to successive compatible grafts.
Incompatible newcomers need to depart of their own accord and be tossed out if they don’t depart within the legislatively allocated time.
Once upon a time, 2 things were widely known:
1) Immigrants from all over the world came to America and made it a great country. They werre processed through Ellis Island or other official ports of entry. They arrived, they assimilated, they became Americans. It was good for everyone.
2) The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a large, but weak European country. It had too many ethnic groups: Austrians, Czechs, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Germans, Albanians, Bosnians, Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc. The people in the empire were moving in a 1000 different directions, and the nation itself had no cohesion because each ethnic group was focused on its own identity. It was essentially tribal in nature, and it all fell apart after the Empire’s poor performance under stress in WWI.
Assimilation is the key. Tribalism is always bad.
The US has a lot of tribalism, not much assimilation.
> Multiculturalism threatens Western civilization itself. <
Well, yes. I got lost in the weeds trying to read the article. Does this guy have a solution?
I do know that stepping up efforts to assimilate won’t work. Muslims have zero interest in assimilating. None. Won’t work with them. Ever.
“the fact that if you bring people together and reduplicate the situation of the world at large with no uniting meta-narrative … you also bring in all of the conflict.”
A Brit said something along those lines in 1968.
Excellent articulation of the obvious. Glad he sees the light.
Wish he’d said “greed” rather than materialism. To some extent we are all materialists (or behave as), but in some cultures greed is standard procedure.
In my travels in my state, I have encountered many people of a certain ethnic and cultural background. Won’t specify but I’ll say it is neither muslim nor melanin related. These folks are all, stress ALL, mindlessly greedy and dog-eat-dog in their approach to business. They exploit, lie (the expression comes to mind: “rather climb a tree and lie, than tell truth standing on the ground”) and swindle others whenever possible. They speak not for truth but for expedient results. They will say anything to get your trust, your money, your valuables, and some try to obtain their victims’ identities, too. To them, the world is a jungle and America is full of easy prey.
There are honest materialists, and then there are people whose behavior indicates generations of ghetto survival in their background.
They are scavenging in an overly tolerant, weak society here, like the barbarians against Rome. They come out of a looter culture, and lands where the strong and savage survive. They cannot be assimilated.
Street Smarts will beat a Hi IQ any day. He must have known someone tho took a pipe to the head to finally get to the Ah Ha moment.
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.
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.
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.
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”...