[GeekDejure]

What Is Multiculturalism?

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Multiculturalism is DISASTER for America. Period, end of argument !!!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So no one should be judged by the content of his character, but rather by the color of his skin etc?

[expatguy]

Multiculturalism and Diversity the Bane of Democracy and Freedom

[pyx]

What Is Multiculturalism?

An EVIL and insideous method of social engineering that was developed, implemented and refined in CANADA with the sole purpose of BALKANIZEING a country in order to ensure a permanent SOCIALIST/MARXIST government.

[beavus]

"Multiculturalism" is doublespeak for "cultural repression".

[Fishing-guy]

Can someone summarize the article. It rambled on and on. What was the point?

[LauraleeBraswell]

In my college English Class, we were learning about morality as in Moral Amoral Immoral.
My professor defined moral in what I thought was an unusual way, so I asked where true right and wrong come in.

My professor said that was an opinion.

I didn't quite understand, so I gave an example and asked again, "What about Killing, killing is always wrong, where does that come in with morality"
My professor then responded, "Well, is some cultures killing is right."

And that's when I understood what realism was.

[junta]

Very good.

[Publius6961]

What is multiculturalism?

Multiculturalism is the "progressives'" tool for totally shutting off debate about diseased, criminal illegal aliens, and for the promotion of the comedic notion that they enhance and enrich the American culture, rather than destroy it.

Another form of the same idea is "trust us" and "who are you going to believe? Us or your own eyes?"

[blackeagle]

bump

[bubman]

bump for a later read

[Blue Screen of Death]

My idea of multicultralism is six different ethnic resturants at a food court.

[Billthedrill]

Multiculturalism is fundamentally anti-individualistic because it expects each individual to conform in his or her perceptions, thoughts, and assessments to those pronounced to be the authentic perceptions, thoughts, and assessments of that individual's group. All genuine blacks must share the Black perspective. All genuine women must share the enshrined Female perspective. All homosexuals must share the Homosexual perspective—and so on. Your thoughts are either the collectively constituted thoughts of your racial, ethnic, or sexual group or they are thoughts insidiously imposed upon you by the dominant White Male perspective.

It is here that multiculturalism betrays itself as simply a dressed-up offshoot of Marxist class theory, which it most certainly is. It isn't really culture that this principally addresses anyway, but social and economic class, the interests of each being grandly declared to be essentially identical, measured largely by political power (if you're a Foucaultian) or economic power (if you're a classic Marxist). Hence the notion of a "queer culture" that is equal in every respect with the dominant one with the exception of power. That isn't what "culture" means, but if they state it more accurately as "class" the cat is out of the bag.

When it truly is applied to cultures we see the astonishing result of the impossibility of finding any precepts or guidelines by which to even compare cultures. For example, a culture that has gone into extinction as the result of cannibalism cannot be criticized for its extant characteristic despite the result. This is a profoundly anti-intellectual approach that negates the very analysis of which it purports to be a founding principle. One would not expect a physicist to claim successfully that the conclusion of his work was the negation of the possibility of physics, but one reads that in cultural anthropology every day, cloaked in obscurantist multisyllabic jargon that serves to hide a tragic waste in intellectual resources.

[bushinohio]

Under the banner of "multiculturalism" we are losing American customs and traditions. We are told that we must be accepting of other ethnic groups and we mustn't offend them with our silly American holidays like Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.

If there is one child in a class of 50, his/her parents can demand that the school have no Christmas party, decorations, etc. So 49 kids have to miss out of an American tradition because God forbid that we offend little Mohamed. In a school that I worked at a few years ago, the administration was up in arms about Valentine's Day! That's how ridiculous multiculturalism has become.

Multiculturalism says that we must respect all cultures and embrace diversity. What multiculturalism really does is spit in the face of Americanism.

[IronJack]

Multiculturalism is a fiction that tries to argue that multiple units pulling apart is stronger than one unit pulling together. It's an attempt to equate failed cultures with successful ones, and to abolish the concept of normalcy.

It's also a handy Marxist dialectical tool. It slices, dices, and makes julienne fries like a snap! And it's a top-notch engine coolant.

[MonroeDNA]

Good post.

Western values are better, and superior, to non-western values.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Great article! If all values are relative then so are regimes and ideologies. Multiculturalism, which supposedly favours democracy and tolerance, wants to elevate democracy to an untouchable universal status, but really can't make that claim if it believes everything is relative. Like most systems of thought it needs/wants to make a claim to a universal. It's the great irrational bandwagon that started with Nietzsche's critique of culture and which has recently gained speed in North America via Marxist/postmodern thought. That there are no trans historical values (eg. religious values) leads to a cultural nihilism and, possibly, the collapse of democracy through a demagogue or dictator (eg. Hitler and the Wiemar Republic). But to say something like this to an educator, especially in Canada, is a crime. Educators are paid by the state and they tow the line with the best of them -- my experience at teachers college.