The League of David

Another one bites the dust

Note to my three readers:  my other blog, School's Out, has been put to rest.  It had to go.  I've started working on a book proposal, and I just don't have the time.  I may just return to it one day, and I'll leave it up for browsing.  A  knowledge of Western civilization -- especially English, its dominant language -- creates the historical, philosophical, and ethical foundation for a rich and productive life.  Unfortunately,  many arts and humanities professsors don't agree with this, and the students turn out to be the real losers in the end. 

All this, however, can't keep me scouring English department websites for particularly egregious examples of neo-Marxist, multicultural innanity.   

I have much (else) to do.

Adding to the Arsenal: City Journal

It's hard to believe that any consistently conservative publication can come out of New York City, but City Journal is just such a publication.
It's contributors, like Theodore Dalrymple and Heather MacDonald, provide clear headed and sometimes brutal insights into many of today's worst cultural afflictions. Dalrymple especially draws his insights on everything from Islam to multiculturalism from what you and I may call reality. The real reality, not the one defined and driven by today's blithering and dangerous ideologies, for example:

Many women I have encountered as patients who came to Britain from Pakistan 30 years ago, at 16 or 18, still know little English—but not from any unwillingness to learn. Their husbands actively prevented them from learning the language, to make sure that they would stay enclosed in a ghetto and not get any ideas above their station. The same rioting youths who protested British society’s failure to accept them as equal citizens have themselves sought to reproduce the unequal social patterns of rural Pakistan, half a world away, because it suited them to do so.

Multiculturalism encourages this stance. If all cultures are equal, and none has the right to impose its standards on any other, what is wrong with the immigrant ghettos that have emerged, where the population (that is to say, the male population) enjoys, de facto, extraterritorial rights? If it is the custom of their ancestral culture to keep girls out of school and force them into marriages that they do not want and to confiscate the passports that the British government issues them for their personal use, what can a multiculturalist object without asserting the superiority of his own values?

A good Philistine will agree with the moral relativism that drives multiculturalism. By doing this, however, they negate the social and technological advances that generate the wealth and political and social stability that are the foundation of their privileged insight. See the entries below on Takoma Park, Md. Could a town like that exist in China or Pakistan?

If all cultures are equal then you can't say that slavery or facism is bad. You can't say stoning or castrating women is bad. You mute your own arguments.

Philistines fancy themselves the smartest people on earth, because they take the position of multicultural relativism, an affectation that proudly announces their "open-mindedness." However, reality tells us that it's a fruitless and vainglorious fancy.