Mark Steyn: Multiculturalists are the real racists

National Post ^ | Aughst 20, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Nope, feeling fine. Just couldn't get going this morning.

[texasbluebell]

Here's the link to that site, one I've never seen before, so will have to check it out myself.

Little Green Footballs

[snefling]

Anyone know if Steyn is married and how old he is? On a purely intellectual basis, he's perfect for Ann Coulter. Can anyone else see that?

Remember, opposites attract. Steyn and Coulter both have liberal friends - you can tell from their references. As long as the opposition isn't too strident, they're fun to be around to debate and discuss issues.

[texasbluebell]

Or as Charles Johnson, whose excellent "Little Green Footballs" Web site turns up dozens of fascinating Islamic tidbits every day, suggested: "Maybe we should start a betting pool: Which European country will be the first to institute shari'a?"

And I've often wondered this myself. Which one will fall first? Will it be France? Quite possibly. Or the Netherlands? Either one could be my pick. Then again there's England, will we soon see an Islamic Republic of Britain?

Knighthawk, what do you think?

[citizen]

BTTT

[spodefly]

Thanks for the Ping. Steyn always gets it right.

My biggest concern is the apparent difficulty that everyone else has in seeing what Steyn points out so clearly.

When 'western' men start telling 'western' women that they have to tolerate gang-rapes as a component of multiculturalism, or acquiesce in their manner and dress to 'not provoke' the rapists, we have completely lost our culture, a culture which would never (in the past, at least) tolerate such barbaric behavior from anyone, for any reason.

I no longer care what I am called when I express my disdain for Islam and Muslim culture. Everywhere thier religion spreads, violence and barbarity follow. Their goals are clear. If you cannot see it, then you are just as dangerous to me (and the one's that I love) as they are. I will not acquiesce, I will not appease, and I will not tolerate.

Islam is a barbaric death cult. So called 'moderate' Muslims are the Trojan horse for the fanaticism that lies at the core of that cult.

[wardaddy]

I hate to say it but it's obvious. We (collectively) are our own worst enemies. Without these quite willy nilly citizens amongst us, we would be a much less appealing target to our enemies.

[archy]

It might have been the one with the kitten dressed as a suicide bomber. There were some great comments on LGF that got copied here.

Allah AkPurrrr!

Palestinian bomb cat picture shocks civilised world

Meow!Grrrr!

-archy-/-

[Pearls Before Swine]

And Louie said: "This is a greatest country on Earth and the greatest country in the history of the world, but if she is not careful, she will go the way of Rome."

Sadly, he's right, but not for the reasons he thinks. Rome fell for many reasons, not the least of which included distraction and "wussification" of the population, factionalism, awful leadership, and loss of identity to the immigration policies of empire. This latter issue came about because of slave labor and mercenary armies. There is, alas, an analogy to today's poor absorpion of minimally acculturated wage slaves.

Listening to Louie--following his suggested policies--would increase the certainty of the fall occuring and its rapidity. He would plunder the productive for the temporary gains of his chosen group, as is current practice in much of the post-colonial world.

[FreedomFriend]

Europe should not be admitting any non-western immigrants. They have no right to be there. This includes Middle Easterners, Africans and Asians. Is Europe to commit a genocide on its own people, or are they to destroy their own way of life. Unfortunately, it appears that both are the case.

[EdReform]

Bump

[untenured]

Yet even in the face of the crudest assaults on its most cherished causes -- women's rights, gay rights -- the political class turns squeamishly away.

Working in a university as I do, I am simply flabbergasted by the extent to which the multicultural imperative has snuffed out critical thought. If the jihadists want to crush gays under brick walls and reverse all the gains women have made in the last century, it is our fault for pointing it out.

Several tenets, especially in the humanities departments, have become revealed truth, not to be challenged:

1. No one from group X is fit to criticize any action taken by a member of group Y, but only if group Y is a certified minority group.

2. The West is always at fault. Any datum offered to rebut this claim is evidence of racism or other hostility toward other groups. Any behavior that cuts against the Western grain is not a sign of a defect that must be overcome, but of something to which the West must accomodate itself.

3. Groups must always be defined exclusively around race, religion and sexual orientation - not occupation, not parental status, not political beliefs, only the tribal identities.

Lest we think this is something that only applies to academic flakes, let me assure you that day in and day out I see students who are thoroughly under the spell of the multiculturalist ethos, completely incapable of making cross-cultural comparisons if it means they must actually come to a critical conclusion. They are deeply inculcated in this by the time they get here, and it gets worse while they're here. Things are bad.

[Squantos]

I was looking at the current issue of Popular Science last evening. Ya want to scare yourself silly then read that rags stories on goobermints future homeland security plans/ideas.

We are NOT going to win anything with ideas presented in the story content. It only revolves around airports which I like to think of as lab rat sources for these security fiascos for now , soon to spread to your local highways and rural roads. Islamakazis will just avoid Airports now that all the money and time are being thrown at the "flying" public....

Note the pics in those stories of nail clippers and small swiss army knives and scissors ect ect on full pages.......Thought provoking IMHO.

The dog is chasing it's own tail with regards to Homeland Security Efforts and will never "get it"............

Stay Safe !

[CatoRenasci]

Indeed. The decline in the quality of critical thought in the universities since I was a graduate student some 30 years ago is amazing. I am currently going through the college admissions process with my eldest daughter and it is illuminating. Having been an academic, I can read between the lines in a faculty biography or a course catalog, and I am seeing huge variations in departments of interest among the better liberal arts colleges. In some cases, and we're talking about institutions of roughly equal prestige here (say the top 50-60 liberal arts colleges and some smaller prestigious but not top 20 univesrities), the course offerings are recognizable to me as comparable to what I did and what I taught. In other cases, the faculty are all interested in the new politically correct aspects of their disciplines and the course catalog is filled with the latest fads. We've been making it a point to meet with the heads, or senior faculty, in the departments my daughter is interested in to discuss the opportunities in the fields in each school and get a sense for how they're taught. Equally important in what was my field, I ask a few questions that elicit telling responses about the faculty's views. In some schools I've been pleasantly surprised, in others, sadly disappointed. Once it's over, perhaps I'll post something of my specific impressions, but for now, I don't think I'll increase the applicant pools at the places we liked.

[headsonpikes]

"Things are bad."

Luckily for the biosphere, vultures and worms don't discriminate against anyone, no matter how extraordinarily irrational their belief systems are.

The young are starting to squirm under the suffocating pillow of PC highminded insanity. I retain hope.

[Grampa Dave]

Tommy Da$$hole and his wife who is a big time lobbyist for the airlines, immediately took over air port security and turned it into a full time joke with Da$$hole's special little riders in the so called air port security.

As a result there was a typical rat focus on nail clippers and blue eyed passengers, blondes and my semi dangerous 3 year old semi blond grand daughter who some how triggered a search a week ago in the Philly Airport coming back to SFO.

They didn't want to search her 18 month old really blond blue eyed brother, nick named Bam Bam, nor her mother who in the summer could appear to be Middle East. Bam Bam had grabbed one security it with his vice grip hand and was Bam Baming her with his other hand. My dil let Bam Bam terrorize the security it during the following great Da$$hole job:

My 3 year old 28 pound grand daughter had to take her shoes off. She refused until the security guy said please. Then, she took off her shoes and threw them at them and ran back and forth through the metal detector gate until they told my terrorist family to move on. She picked up her shoes and said thank you.

So the Da$$hole/Rat PC airport circus has reached the point that GW wants the right to fire the clowns working for Da$$hole's phoney security. Of course, Da$$hole won't allow that as long as he is in charge of the Senate.

Whenever the Rats are involved just follow the money.

[300winmag]

What's wrong with revenge?
They bring a knife, you bring a gun
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue!
That's the Chicago way!

They bring a gun, you bring a gunship. That's the American way!

[Gritty]

Very sad, scary first-person commentary you give there!

[A.J.Armitage]

But, inevitably, it's the heavy sentence that's "controversial."

55 years for rape is not a heavy sentence.

The right penalty is lethal injection. Why lethal injection? Because they're animals, and should be put down like animals.

[elisabeth]

This comes from a link on the NEA web page about lesson plans for 9/11. The specific link is: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/tolerance.html

This is scary stuff, and sadly this is very typical of the brainwashing and biased political instruction that goes on in public schools every day!

Excerpts from the lesson plan:

During coverage of the terrorist attacks, many news organizations showed video footage of Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attacks. Sentiment against the Palestinians--and Arab people more generally--increased as a result of this reporting, though at the time it was unclear who was responsible for the attacks [WHAT?!?!?], or how widespread such celebrations were in the Middle East.

Ask students to brainstorm a list of descriptors that come to mind when they hear the word "terrorist." Ask students to share their ideas (verbally, or anonymously by collecting papers and reading aloud). Note how many times "Arab," "Middle East," or "Muslim" get mentioned. Ask students if they think this characterization is fair. [Well, gee...considering this is a lesson about 9/11 and ALL of the terrorists involved in 9/11 were ARABS and MUSLIMS I would say that characterization is fair and accurate!] How does it compare to the characterization of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War II?

Examine how the media portrays people of Arab descent, through an analysis of movies like The Seige, True Lies, and the upcoming Tom Clancy thriller, The Sum of All Fears [uh...wasn't this about russians or nazis or something?]. Students may be interested in the following article: The Seige: Hollywood Now Plays Cowboys and Arabs http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/arbholl.htm [Silence of the Lambs is ok because it was about a WHITE MALE, though. Have your kids watch that instead, it is much more PC.]

Share this article posted online from MSNBC: "Arab-Americans feel a backlash" http://www.msnbc.com/news/628515.asp This article details hate crimes against Arab-Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Is there any connection between media portrayals of Arabs in movies and other popular entertainment, and the crimes committed against Arab-American citizens? Ask students to discuss this.

Ask students to brainstorm a list of ways that citizens can eradicate ethnic stereotypes in their communities (possibilities include exhibits, ethnic festivals, film series, social events at places of worship, etc.). What things can be done locally? At the national level? Choose one or more of these ideas to implement as a class or in partnership with a community organization.