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Cultures Aren't Equal
http://jewishworldreview.com ^ | Michael Barone

Posted on 08/08/2005 7:16:59 AM PDT by manny613

Anyone who has been keeping up with British opinion since the July 7 bombings will have noticed that "multiculturalism" is under sharp attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barone; britain; england; greatbritain; londonattacked; multiculturalism; scotland; uk; unitedkingdom; wales

1 posted on 08/08/2005 7:16:59 AM PDT by manny613
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To: manny613

Bump!


2 posted on 08/08/2005 7:20:44 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: manny613

Barone is so right. Anyone who can't discern that a society that still practices slavery, considers women property and condones cruelty to all animals except the "noble camel" is sick needs to be given an attitude adjustment with a fencepost! Multiculturalism is a pantload.


3 posted on 08/08/2005 7:24:54 AM PDT by Bombardier ("Religion of Peace" my butt.....sell that snakeoil to someone who'll buy it!)
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To: manny613

"In The Age, the Melbourne, Australia, newspaper, Pamela Bone wrote, "Perhaps it is time to say, you are welcome, but this is the way it is here." The Age 's Tony Parkinson quoted the French writer Jean Francois Revel's Cold War comment: "A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." Tolerating intolerance, goodhearted people are beginning to see, does not necessarily produce tolerance in turn. "


4 posted on 08/08/2005 7:29:27 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: manny613

Barone does NOT have a history of getting things right, correct? Dare we hope that we're seeing a glimmer--fainter than the first crack of dawn, but better than nothing--of common sense entering this discussion from outside the realm of traditional conservatism? Dare we?

MM


5 posted on 08/08/2005 7:30:18 AM PDT by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: Bombardier

Multiculturalsim serve to isolate and whithhold the keys to entry and success in a society by pretending to things that are not, in fact, true.


6 posted on 08/08/2005 7:33:45 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: manny613

Not much of anything is truly equal, except hopefully the standing of all citizens before the law.

I always enjoy greatly the different cultures that exist side by side here in Miami. However, it is surely the obligation of our country to ensure that all who choose to immigrate here permanently be taught to understand and advocate the American traditions of individual freedom and personal liberty.

'Course, large numbers of natives don't even understand or advocate those things any more.


7 posted on 08/08/2005 7:34:49 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: manny613

Multiculturalism is another bar against recognizing that there are absolute rights and wrongs. It helps the twits tell us wemust try to understand those that would slaughter us and blur the obvious - we must understand that there are those that want to slaughter us and it is OK to slaughter them first.


8 posted on 08/08/2005 7:44:39 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: manny613
"A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."

never apologize.....it's a sign of weakness

9 posted on 08/08/2005 8:16:45 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
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To: manny613
Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures all morally equal, except ours, which is worse.

This is true except for the word "degenerates". Multiculturalism was a weapon from the git-go, designed to spread FUD to weaken resistance to change in the face of the clear, overwhelming superiority of Western nations and societies. If you want someone to trade his cow for a handful of beans, you have to convince him the beans are magic.

10 posted on 08/08/2005 10:03:25 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: manny613

I had a date with an Iranian girl the other day who made the same point. She agreed that the moral equivalency practiced by the liberals in the west would allow the same type of thugs that ruined her country to wreak havoc over here.


11 posted on 08/08/2005 10:06:30 AM PDT by Clemenza (Intelligent Design Isn't Very Intelligent)
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To: manny613; MadIvan
Good post, Manny. An inactive FReeper once posted this:

Let’s be realistic. Enemies of the United States are enemies of mine. But despite the pressure some liberals, socialists, Arabs and similar ilk feel from me, I am not a racist. A racist is not someone who simply criticizes you. Racism is a derogatory view of your essential nature as a human being; someone who believes that you are inferior by birth, by genetics. Usually a classic racist discriminates by skin color. I simply do not fit the definition.

An Arab is a full human being physically and spiritually. I see no division in being Arab and being the complete equal of myself or anyone else in the world.

HOWEVER, Arab culture does have major limitations which I have previously noted. Culture is not race. I can regard your culture as inferior to my own - and you are a fool if you think that qualifies me as racist. It just shows you don’t know how to think, that your thinking is emotional and sloppy. That is not a racist characteristic, it is a cultural characteristic.

A sloppy mind is your fault or your culture’s fault; it is not dependent on your race at all.

Just because I regard some as prone to sloppy thinking and Arabs as ineffective and fantasizing, has nothing to do with your race. Your culture makes you sloppy, your culture makes you fantasizers who can’t form solid analytical images of the real world as it actually exists.

Arabs have a mind set which is due to culture. This mindset is not racial - it is cultural. Your culture has conditioned you to hate the Jews. This is inferior - patently so, obviously so - and it reveals you are driven by jealousy of the Jews, envy of the Jews, and FEAR of the Jews.

You are jealous and envious and afraid of the Jews because subconsciously you see that the Jews have succeeded in the same environment you have and that they are prosperous and efficient while your own societies are collapsing failures.

You are economically and socially inferior to the Jews. You hate the Jews because they make you look stupid. You are inferior to them and their economies are superior to yours. Their armies are superior to yours. They are FORTY times more powerful than all of you put together and they are one percent of your size. You ARE inferior and it hurts. You hate their talent and their success. You are standing there right next to them on the same ground with the same resources and you look like a pile of Arab crap. You hate them because they are better than you and their success shows the differences between their culture, their values, and you and yours.

And this is just one small factor. Your religion is based on the Koran and its image of reality has produced what you are. Your values are based on Islam. Your values have produced your poverty and your complete inability to claim any COMPETENCE in the real world. There isn’t a single Moslem country that doesn’t slobber all over itself like a retard when confronted by the 21st century.

You want to “confront” the West, you want to have your “Greatness” recognized. You are a feeble snarl of oppressive dictatorships with illiteracy and fear and ignorance as your heritage.

The West feels SORRY FOR YOU. The only dependable feeling anyone has for an Arab is pity. And that isn’t when we find you murdering children for money like a Shaheed. How much money was Saddam paying for dead Moslem children with bombs strapped to their guts?

You have had a rub-rump wank-sucking-pervert like Arafat who was a duplicitous thug idolized as a role model. Show me an Arab hero. You don’t have a single individual in your whole culture today who inspires anyone with anything except disgust and contempt and pity.

You are impotent people. It is not your race. It is your culture. Your values produce failure. Your entire reality is an escape from responsibility and a fleeing from achievement.

Don’t tell me about your financial future either. Your veneer of modernity is about a millimeter thick. It can vanish as soon as the West doesn’t supply you with spare parts or repair people.

You didn’t invent it and you can’t fix it. You are a nutless, pointless, ghost town waiting-to-happen society.

And acting like you are our equals has nothing to do with your race or mine…it has everything to do with the fact that your culture is totally incompetent.

You are fifty to a hundred years behind the West. Politically you are back in the 1930’s Technologically you are in the fourteenth century and you don’t produce anything modern. You buy our culture and think that entitles you to some equality. You are parasites on our abilities.

Socially and economically you are waiting to die. You seek to challenge the values of the West. You attacked the United States. You want nothing more than to have atomic weapons so we will respect you.

You might as well stick a modern pistol in your mouth and pull the trigger if you think that we will ever allow you to have atomic weapons. We will go to war with the first Islamic nation which has an atomic we don’t control. It is a sure guarantee of a certain war. You are not fit to stand beside us as equals.

The Jews are, but you aren’t.

The Jews are like us - they are also different from us - but all things considered they are our kind…and you aren’t. You are Arabs and you produce nothing of any value - politically, socially, economically, or philosophically.

You are a dead society with dead values. That isn’t a racist statement. It’s an autopsy of your culture. And I don't hate you - I just don't want you to rot in my gutter so I have to smell it. Go someplace else to die.

Lando

12 posted on 08/08/2005 11:03:19 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (How many liberals does it take to win a war?)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Bump for a good read. Kudo's to that inactive freeper. He had it right on
13 posted on 08/08/2005 1:46:48 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Lando Lincoln
Culture is not race.

Bingo. But for some reason it's "insensitive" for people to try to wean blacks from the ghetto culture, and yet "racist" to harshly judge those who buy into it.

14 posted on 08/08/2005 8:59:50 PM PDT by supercat (Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
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To: manny613
Quote Of The Day: All Cultures Are Not Morally Equal


"Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places -- mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe." -- Michael Barone


John Hawkins, http://rightwingnews.com/
15 posted on 08/09/2005 2:39:27 PM PDT by OESY
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To: MississippiMan
Barone does NOT have a history of getting things right, correct?

Wrong. Michael Barone is the best political analyst bar none. Brit frequently has him on FNC. His election 2004 coverage on Fox was excellent.

16 posted on 08/09/2005 2:44:33 PM PDT by pbear8 (Nothing like a good recess appointment!)
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