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| Fjordman : The Background of Multiculturalism |
| 2006-11-20 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 good saying... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-20 22:30 |
| #4 kids are taught that self esteem is not connected to real achievement As some unknown genius once said; Never has there been a generation so full of self-esteem ... For so little reason. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-20 22:16 |
| #3 One of the bitterest, racists twists to this particular doctrine is played out in schools, where kids are taught that self esteem is not connected to real achievement. My friends who teach in one of the most rabidly multicultural districts around have mostly quit because the administration will not support the teachers who demand that students take responsibility for their actions. Of course, the minorities who go through this system are only marginally employable, if at all. Potential rabbles to rouse. Madison Metropolitan School District, I'm talking about YOU. |
| Posted by: mom 2006-11-20 21:41 |
| #2 I think it may have benefited Fjordman to take one more step back in time, even further past the Civil Rights movement, to see where the seeds of Multiculturalism were planted. Much like the well-camouflaged elitist racism and anti-Semitism of today's modern liberal left, so is it possible that Multiculturalism blossomed as the tainted fruit of bigotry's poison tree. The concept of individual ethnic communities living apart from each other, yet supposedly retaining equal protection under the law, did not originate with the Civil Rights movement. During the Reconstruction era immediately following America’s Civil War, Washington DC made some attempts to protect the fledgling civil rights of newly freed slaves. When Reconstruction ended, federal troops were pulled back and a spate of discriminatory legislation known as Jim Crow laws was passed in Southern states. Arguing that it was perfectly legal to provide separate accommodations for Blacks and Whites led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that legitimized the concept of “Separate but Equal”. While it may have had no intention of watering Multiculturalism’s nascent roots, this segregationist policy definitely reinforced formation of the “enclave mentality” that faltered temporarily in the 1950-60s only to return with a vengeance during the immigration booms extending from the 1970s onwards. Multiculturalism represents a “through-the-looking-glass” version of Jim Crow’s “Separate but Equal” doctrine. Only, instead, it is now lustily cheered on by those who orginally seemed to fight it during the Civil Rights era. Just as with the left’s fascination regarding Marxism and all things anti-American, they have since discovered that shattering this nation’s melting pot into its constituent fragments is the best way to bring about our country’s demise. In a complete and total perversion, the left’s moral relativism has embraced “Separate but Equal” and made it its own. So long as some vestige of equal protection under the law can be twisted into use, this hideous charade will continue to play out. It will remain of service only while equal protection continues to shield extremely unequal imposition of preferred factional rules for individual societal enclaves. Witness the constant demands of immigrant Hispanics to have Spanish be installed as a de facto second language. Even more disturbing and far more exemplary is how American Muslims seek selective imposition of sharia law within their own communities. Whether it is insisting upon halal school meals or outdoor broadcast of prayer calls from morning to night, these encroachments upon overall public equality are fed by the tap root Multiculturalism has sunk deep into the water table of segregationist tradition. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-20 18:42 |
| #1 Fjordman is spot on again with his analysis. He could have gone further - there is a confluence of purpose between radical Islam and leftists living in the West. Both wish to bring down the West and feed on its corpse, and without actually having a conspiracy to do so play off each other as long as it supports their common goal. The fact that each loathes the other is irrelevant in their minds because each assumes that once the West is dispatched then the other will fall soon after. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2006-11-20 06:50 |