The Adversary Culture: The perverse anti-Westernism of the cultural elite

The Sydney Line ^ | 2/11/06 | Keith Windschuttle

[sageb1]

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[Rocky]

Excellent column! I see our old friend Ward Churchill gets prominent mention, as well he should.

The Left has built all of this anti-Western sentiment on lies, and very few call them on it.

We need to circulate this column widely.

[LK44-40]

Western Culture has produced a man on the moon, antibiotics, Mathematics & understanding of the universe itself.

That gives me a GREAT idea! Instead of spending all this U.S. taxpayer money to fight AIDS in Africa, why dont we import some of their medical technology to help us with our AIDS problem here in America.

[RobbyS]

Well said.

[Billthedrill]

An excellent post, and thanks for bringing it to us. What most appalls me about the current state of Western intellectual life is that Edward Said, Ward Churchill, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag and Naomi Klein are in the least taken seriously. Of these only Chomsky ever pretended to be a serious scholar and that (1) was in an unrelated field, and (2) was long before he became the poster boy for reflexive anti-Americanism.

Their real god, Marxism, has settled in among the other relics in the cultural dumpster and is good for humor value only at this point.

[aquila48]

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

I loved this!!

That's the problem with these self-hating, suicidal, guilt-ridden apologists of those who would kill them. They can find nothing good about the culture that is providing them a life of liberty, security and comfort, yet they can't find anything bad about cultures which if they ever became dominant would waste no time in eliminating them.

We do have a weakness in our culture - we allow ungrateful parasites like these in places of prestige and influence. It's time we put a stop to this!!

[Nam Vet]

The first time I personally noticed this redefining of our culture was in 1962 or 1963. The socialist asshole teacher was Mr. Brian in a joint high school class social studies lecture.

It was there that I witnessed the first outright lies. Mr. Brian's favorite tactic was quoting Marxists writers and calling them "respected Conservative authors". May that lying pig rot in hell. God only knows how many of my 60s generation he polluted.

Nam Vet

[aquila48]

"Cultural relativism claims there are no absolute standards for assessing human culture. Hence all cultures should be regarded as equal, though different."

Couldn't disagree more... There is a very simple, objective and reality-based standard for judging whether one culture is superior to another. Anytime two cultures come in contact with each other, the one that ends up dominating the other is the superior one. (By the way a culture dominating another does not mean a people dominating another).

The biggest threat to our culture is not other cultures, rather it is our own home grown parasites which we tolerate far too much. Hopefully our cultural antibodies will react soon and strong enough to neutralize these pathogens.

[grey_whiskers]

"Cultural relativism claims there are no absolute standards for assessing human culture. Hence all cultures should be regarded as equal, though different."

Here is simple experimental proof that liberals are knowingly lying through their teeth when they say this.

1. Steer a conversation with a liberal to the point he/she/it (hey, some of them are in the middle of sex changes so their gender is indeterminate, right?) spouts this nonsense.

2. Ask them once again to affirm that all cultures are equal.

3. When they say "Yes" then ask them why they don't move to a Red State (or even better, the Bible Belt).

4. Watch the smoke come out of their ears!

QED.

Cheers!

[Actually_in_Tokyo]

Very interesting so far. Will read the rest later.

[Jacquerie]

To excuse such an atrocity by blaming US government policies is to deny the basic idea of all morality: that individuals are responsible for their actions.

A tenet of the Democrat party.

[Jacquerie]

But the true believers keep believing, and in order to believe, they had to create moral relativism, which basically says that the evil White Westerner is too greedy and corrupt to accept Marxism, so therefore, he must be destroyed.

And the true believers joined in an alliance with those who share their goals, the islamofascists.

[GOPJ]

Has the intellectual center of the world shifted to Australia? Every time it's real "out of the box" thinking, it's from Australia. Odd.

[GOPJ]

Thanks :)

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I have no basis to confirm your suspicions. It is good to read that there are other countries where people are questioning multiculturalism. I think our problems with the Muslim world may cause more people to question multiculturalism. It is fairly obvious that the Muslim world is centuries behind the development of the West. The East, Japan, Korea, Taiwan took the good from Western Civ and melded it with their own, with notable results. China is in the process of doing the same after entering that cul-de-sac of communism.

[King Prout]

long as hell, well worth the read

[the invisib1e hand]

couldn't begin to read it all...

was recently at a talk by a man who co-authored a book with then-Cardinal Ratzinger who mentioned the Pope's concern not only with Europe's secularism but also with the west's "self-loathing" as destabilizing forces in an age of globalization. It's just plain unhealthy.

[the invisib1e hand]

Has the intellectual center of the world shifted to Australia? Every time it's real "out of the box" thinking, it's from Australia. Odd.

It's encouraging that it's somewhere.

However, there is still the plight of the Gay Aborigine to consider...

[the invisib1e hand]

why dont we import some of their medical technology to help us with our AIDS problem here in America.

loved this.

[JasonC]

"The way to oppose it, however, is less clear."

Abolish tenure and fire all the commie radicals. Let them drive cabs for a living. Rigorously discriminate against anyone expressing commie opinions in every sphere of life. Fire them, ban them, insult them, mock them, shun them, spit at them, and if they start anything over it, shoot them in self defense. Raw political power and utter contempt openly expressed. Systematic purges. It is all perfectly doable. It is not done because people keep trying to pretend it isn't a problem, when it is way, way beyond a problem by now.