The dark side of multiculturalism

The Ottawa Citizen ^ | Sunday, September 10, 2006 | Robert Sibley

[Roy Tucker]

There's a bright side?

[wita]

AAACKKK, just like bad spelling is a part of multiculturalism.

[MarkL]

BTTT

[itslex71]

bump for later

[wita]

Profound thinking!

The scriptures are replete with incidents, stories, information, rules, suggestions, and a horn of plenty more, relative to man's progress, development, safety, joy, happiness, salvation, and exaltation, They weren't forced to scatter. Only the language changed which motivated them.

[Inge_CAV]

"The crazy thing about multiculturalism, or "diversity", is that there's no bright side. Said another way, a fully multiculti society, one which "celebrates diversity" has never existed and never can exist. "Like all such fantasies, attempts to create one can only be accomplished by an all-powerful state willing to kill to overcome the human nature which stands in its way."

I think you just gave a close description of the American Civil War.

[Jim Noble]

I don't think that the Army of the Potomac had any intention whatsoever of implementing multiculturalism or diversity.

In fact, the people who brought boatload after boatload of Africans to live and reproduce here created the first multicultural society in North America - and they were terrified by it.

[Inge_CAV]

I will disagree but am enjoying the discussion. We will talk more later.

[TXnMA]

Thank you for pinging me! I'm really glad to have both parts of this excellent article...

[when the time is right]

Multiculturalism is the politically correct word for "racism". It was used by politically correct people to keep "foreigners" separate.

By implying that "certain" immigrants should stay in "ethnic" areas to "protect" their culture it kept them at a safe distance from the established elite who could visit their restaurants and attend their annual festivals and sample their culture without having to fear it would affect their lives.

[Maceman]

The dark side of multiculturalism

There's a bright side?

[1234]

great article-Rummie could understand it-but can Pres. Bush get these concepts out to the people "in time"?

[Gritty]

[olderwiser]

Thanks for the link to this book. From the portion you posted, it sounds like the author saw foresaw our current crisis with dead-on accuracy.

[olderwiser]

"If Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn can be analysed as a white-supremacist tract, as postmodern literary analysis contends..."

Too bad Samuel L. Clemens isn't around today to skewer/lampoon the post-moderns. But writers like Tom Wolfe and P.J. O'Rourke have a bit of Twain's spirit.

The best way to savage these people is to laugh at their moronic notions.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Thanks for posting this! Excellent analysis!

Here is the first part (I read this too -- just as good!):

Age Of Terror, Age Of Illusions (Part One) - by Robert Sibley

[Tokra]

Assimilation is not only for nonWestern cultures. French, Nordic, Italian, and even British immigrants should assimilate, too.

They did and continue to do so.

[Tokra]

Most Americans who identify themselves as Christian should not be hypocritical about Muslims who identify themselves as Muslims first, Americans second.

You are talking apples and oranges. Most Christians do not insist that the entire world become Christian - even at the point of a gun - and most Christians do not insist that religious law override national laws, nor do most Christians insist that "unbelievers" be put to death.

The Muslims DO insist that the entire world become one Caliphate and Muslims DO insist that the entire world be ruled by Sharia and most Muslims believe that "unbelievers" either be put to death or become dhimmis.

Big difference there.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Here are the three parts of this article series (posted on Free Republic):

Age Of Terror, Age Of Illusions (Part 1 Of 3)

The Dark Side Of Multiculturalism (Part 2 Of 3)

The West's Choice : Courage Or Collapse (Part 3 Of 3)

FReegards....

[hellinahandcart]

Thirty-two years later, at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, Maya Angelou's poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," portrayed a badly tarnished America. In fact, Angelou didn't once use the words "America" or "American." Instead, she identified 27 racial, religious, tribal and ethnic groups -- Muslim, Arab, Asian, Hispanic, Pawnee, Ashanti, Jews, Irish, Scandinavian and even Eskimos (Inuit, for politically corrected Canadians), among others. She denounced the repression these groups suffered at the hands of the United States' "armed struggles for profit" and its "bloody sear" of "cynicism." (How, you might ask, has the U.S. oppressed Scandinavians?) The United States, Angelou concluded, may be "wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness."

Man, I don't remember this.

Maybe hearing the poem pushed me over the line between "drowning my sorrows" and "unconscious".