Multiculturalism vs. Racism

our ‘society’ -which is a thing- now holds multiple cultural perspectives that are fundamentally intractable. In the UK, government money goes to mosques and Islamic cultural groups that believe gays should be stoned, women shouldn’t drive and Jews simply shouldn’t be. And then witness the squirming from their religious leaders when the political class -in the wake of what happened in Paris- called on them to assert solidarity with western cultural values like free speech. Islamism does not represent an existential threat to western society. How could it? The only nuclear weapons available to it are the ones we gave it. But our reaction to its presence and the dialectic being set up against it very much are existential threats. We would rather surveil the entire planet than insist upon equality of cultural respect. Thus we automatically lose by attempting to uphold one value -tolerance- at the expense of another -liberty.

Read more: http://runesoup.com/2015/01/risk-a-little-more-light/#ixzz3QhPYK4nN

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