Mark Steyn explains Multiculturalism.
Continued from part 2/3
Marx pitted international classes against each other and treated the hypothesis as settled science (see videos in parts 1/3 en 2/3). While the working class never reached across the borders to their brethern abroad, the current transnational elite seems to bear him out beautifully. The postmodern movement has gone beyond Marx' class divisions and put entire sexes, sexual preferences, races, religions and cultures at each others throats: sub collectives of women/feminazis, QUILTBAGs, Muslims, etc. all united against Dead White, Heterosexual Males of the power construct.
But there's more to it. In part 2/3 we saw how the pOmo elite miscalculated in assuming that the intellectual certainty is the mark of a dictatorial mentality, while chronic doubt—the absence of firm convictions, the lack of absolutes—is the guarantee of a peaceful, “democratic” society. There is a pendant of that false premise in multiculturalism: it doesn't lead to peaceful coexistence as advertised, but it will inevitably result in the worst wars imaginable: civil and tribal war fare.
A Telegraph article on the curse of FGM (Female Genital Mutilition), quoting supermodel Waris Dirie, the Somalian born model who suffered 'cutting' at the age of five, catches the essence:
"If a white girl is abused, the police come break down the door. If a black girl is mutilated, nobody takes care of her. This is what I call racism."
And she's right! Bull's eye! The multicult has nothing to do with multi-ethnic societies. The philosophical root is the equality of all cultures, religions, ideas, races, etc. etc....except the West's, which are uniquely evil. That is the underlying principle. This is a demonstrably false premise. Human beings are born equally (tabula rasa), not cultures, religions, ideologies or any other man-made stuff. They are not innate.
Once again we have abandoned common sense leading to FUBAR. If all cultures are equally valid, who is one to criticize the other? On what ground? There isn't any. Sorry, Waris Dirie, there's nothing we can do for you. Who are we to judge the values other cultures hold dear, such as FGM, honor killings, and forced marriages. We already see what the UK's Sharia courts are doing for apartheid and women seeking divorce: nothing, they remain trapped in their 'communities'!
Whereas the doctrine was sold as anti-racist and pro-tolerance, the direct effect is the very opposite! It is sectarianism, balkanization, segregation, apartheid, ghetto formation and more collectivism. Through the lack of a common bond the result isn't melting pot and color blindness but unadulterated racism and given time, tribal ware fare.
Which brings us back to #Occupy and their overt, vile hatred of Jews. This cartoon sprang from one of their minds on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day. Perhaps an explanation is in order: while the fat Jewish banker #OccupyWallStreet is archetypal Jewish libel, perhaps more importantly Israel and the Jews are considered part of the Western power construct that Cultural Marxism aims at destroying. Their Muslim 'rivals' are evidently part of 'the historically oppressed victim classes'.
This rounds up our three part series on Occupy, Cultural Marxism and the memes that are gnawing away at Liberty, capitalism and Western culture as its bearer.
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