JENKINS: The absurdity, hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of ‘multiculturalism’

.gwinnettdailypost.com ^ | Oct 6, 2017 | Rob Jenkins

[11th_VA]

As Americans, there’s much we can learn from other cultures. In fact, one of the best things about this country is the way we incorporate so many wonderful aspects of so many different cultures, from food and music to clothing and customs.

If that’s what “multiculturalism” meant, it would indeed be a good thing. Unfortunately, it’s not, at least for progressives. To them, multiculturalism is the idea that all cultures are equal — that no culture is superior to any other.

That’s patently absurd. It’s obvious to any intellectually honest person that western culture, rooted in Judeo-Christian values, has given rise to the freest, most pluralistic, most technologically advanced societies in the history of the world.

Western culture has its faults, to be sure, both past and present. But the ultimate test of a culture is how it treats the historically powerless. Nowhere on Earth, and never in history, have women and minorities had the freedom and influence they now enjoy in the democratic societies of Western Europe and North America.

That’s why the hypocrisy of the multiculturalists is so stunning. They claim to champion women’s rights while embracing cultures where women have virtually no rights whatsoever. To them, America’s imaginary “wage gap” appears more odious than honor killings, forced marriage and involuntary abortion.

They praise highly paid American athletes for “taking a knee” to protest our flag as a “symbol of oppression” but refuse to condemn cultures that still practice actual slavery.

They march for gay rights, then make common cause with cultures that unapologetically execute or incarcerate gay people.

Progressives clearly don’t even believe their own propaganda. If all cultures are equal, what gives us the right to insist that developing nations stop exploiting children in sweatshops? Or flooding our country with narcotics? Or trafficking in sex slaves? Aren’t those things just part of their culture?

For that matter, if all cultures are equal, then why not Southern “redneck” culture? Why can’t they have their flags and their monuments? Their hunting rifles and cockfights? Whence comes the moral authority to tell them they’re wrong, if one culture is just as good as another?

The real goal of “multiculturalism” is not to foster understanding and encourage dialog among cultures but to discredit Western culture by suggesting it’s no better than any other. In fact, it’s worse, because it’s exclusionary and therefore unjust.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The beauty of Western culture — American culture — is that you don’t have to be descended from white Europeans to benefit from it. Anyone can, regardless of race, ethnicity or sex, provided they’re willing to embrace pluralism and respect the rights of others.

For two centuries, people have been doing just that, coming here from all over the world precisely because of our values — bringing the best of their cultures to merge into the best of ours.

That’s a kind of multiculturalism we can all get behind.

[ronnie raygun]

The globalists elitists want to muddy the waters and kill the only thing that stands in their way of global control

[ballplayer]

E Pluribus Unum,out of many ONE! AMERICANS!!!!!!!!
End of Story,forget Dividing people,you know Diversity.
We are a Muticultural country by definition,but we are,or should be one,Americans First,somewhere we let scumbag democrat Communists instill in our entire culture this DIVISION called diversity,in other words,divide and conquer

[generally]

You got my vote!

[T-Bone Texan]

Multiculturism is simply another way to say “too many white people”.

And once we get rid of those pesky white people, the world government can take over.

There’s no need to overthink it. Your extinction is the goal.