Multiculturalism vs. Racism

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:16:12 -0500

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.

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Risk a Little More Light | Rune Soup

Enough time has passed since our selected betters decided to pretend they were marching for freedom of speech and went back to snooping on the entire internet, mourning monarchs who behead more people than ISIS, teaching Arabs about democracy by having a prince shoot at them from a helicopter, and selling our medical information to private companies for us to have a challenging discussion… “risk a little more light”, in Gandalf’s words. What...

Response by SGT Steven Eugene Kuhn MBA made Feb 3 at 2015 11:53 AM

SGT Steven Eugene Kuhn MBA — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:53:54 -0500

I am not sure what your point is, could you please elaborate, sorry.