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| A Professor Who Argues Against Multicultural Ideology and for Western Exceptionalism Now Fears for His Job |
| 2019-05-28 |
| [PJ] I have met University of New Brunswick sociologist and co-founder of the blog Council of European Canadians Ricardo Duchesne only once and found him reserved, thoughtful and modest. A brilliant writer and genuine scholar, he has authored two impeccably-researched volumes on the history of Western civilization and the settler domestication of pre-industrial lands. In an earlier article for PJ Media, I had occasion to mention Duchesne, who writes in Canada in Decay ‐ one of the most important books in our national literature explaining the emergence of the ideology of immigrant multiculturalism ‐ that Canada is an extreme, though not unique, example of impending ethnocide, "promoting its own replacement by foreigners from other races, religions and cultures." As Duchesne points out in The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, the same form of national self-deprecation we note in Canada is at work in most Western nations today. Before multiculturalism took root, Duchesne argues, Canada was not an immigrant nation, as the cliché has it, but a European nation built by settlers and pioneers. The same formulation applies to the U.S. and Australia. He notes a critical difference between categories of newcomers: pioneers create, immigrants contribute (at their best). Multiculturalism, however, which radically changes the identity of a country, is neither a creation nor a contribution; it is "an experiment imposed from above." Tensions inevitably arise between the rapidly shrinking European majority and the multi-ethnic, culturally alien brew that is displacing it. Duschesne lays out his agenda in The Uniqueness of Western Civilization. His central contention, he writes, "will be that the West has always existed in a state of variance from the rest of the world’s cultures," divergences that include, among a plethora of others, "the ’Greek miracle’, the Roman invention of the legal persona, the Papal revolution, the invention of mechanical clocks, the Portuguese voyages of discovery, the Gutenberg revolution, the Cartographic revolution, the Protestant Reformation, the ’rational’ mercantilist state and the ’industrial enlightenment.’" He has no doubt that the "ideals of freedom and the reasoned pursuit of truth were cultivated and realized in the course of Western time." Predictably, Duchesne has been attacked as a white supremacist in the leftist media ‐ The Huffington Post, the CBC, Global TV, and other venues ‐ and by an open-letter cabal of 25 of his UNB colleagues engaged in a war against "hate" ‐ that is, against anything that disagrees with their anti-Western ideology. He will almost certainly find himself under formal investigation by the university, which is now reviewing complaints against him. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Remember how they treated Jordan Peterson ? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-05-28 14:41 |
| #4 Ricardo Duchesne He ain't Blacky DuQuesne |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-05-28 12:06 |
| #3 Academic freedom to express ideas has been dead for awhile. Maybe resurrection in universities is possible with time and a lot of cleaning out. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-28 08:46 |
| #2 Predictably, Duchesne has been attacked as a white Fixed for honest clarification. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-05-28 07:31 |
| #1 I take it that there isn't tenure in the Canadian university system.. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-05-28 07:24 |