This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism. It is the belief that liberalism must be so open-minded that its own brains are spilled onto the prayer mat. It is the fetishization of identity at the expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a society too terrified to assert its own values, lest it be accused of “racism” by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.
something makes me think this guy is getting a little too emotional at a strawman. Obviously Islam can be critiqued, and it frequently is without bigotry.
Can you say Islam is inferior to liberalism? Are you brave to do that? Are you open enough to do that? I don’t think so. The article points out, without recognizing that Western values are superior to Islamic ones, yet because superiority is evil, and inferiority gets credit, it is politically incorrect to point out the obvious to the one that should be bias. A devout Muslim without hesitation would say Islam is better than the Western system.
Yeah, that’s all a dumb strawman. People point out the illiberalisms of Islam all the time. Sure, some people will call any critique of Islam racist, but that does not reinforce his victim complex about how it’s impossible to criticize Islam, just like some people being bigoted towards Muslims does not mean all criticism against them is wrong. The author is arguing against a strawman, because many people, actually, can recognize that a thing can be criticized and a target of hate without mutual exclusion.
not really you should look up the what writers are trying to fight for in UK, it’s gaining traction fast
let’s see what labour chooses, muslim vote or their loyalty to secularism,
the concerning thing is power corrupts so i am not expecting the best outcome
https://www.afaf.org.uk/an-open-letter-on-the-governments-proposed-definition-of-islamophobia/
i came across this through richard dawkins
Liberalism as a political system is simply equal rights of the individual before the law. It focuses on the individual. Don’t confuse this with Western morality that obsesses with minority groups because they are implicitly, or subliminally, considered weak compared to the host culture. This obsession with weakness comes from Christian morality. In my ways, the evolution of Western society is based on this concept of overthrowing the strong in favor of the weak. This is not much different. This is uniquely Western culture, because Western culture is the only part of Christianity that emphasized the suffering of Jesus. As a result, to feel compassion for all things weak, instead of marginalizing it like normal people do. This is, in fact, where Woke people get their infatuation with victimization, thus identity politics, because first you must identify the victim. You see Woke people on Lemmy everyday posting their victimization articles.
True multiculturalism is having different cultures and all their peculiarities, however much you disagree with it. Instead, what bleeding compassionate liberals have, is try to meld other cultures into the host culture, in an attempt to make neutral their beliefs of how the world should be structured. Being neutral is not right, or wrong, just natural, and that is what the typical Westerner thinks as natural. The new immigrants, who are not of Western culture, do not have the same compassionate compass as the natives. The world they are from, does not emphasize any affinity with compassion, or have the worship of weak things.
This is why there is a backlash against open borders. Pleasant liberal societies suddenly are disgruntled by additions of other cultures. Their mannerisms are different. Their beliefs are different. Then you have to defund the police movement, the only thing that could make order out of the chaos, because police are viewed as oppressors over the weak in the Woke mind. Oh well, good luck.
German intellectuals did a great job of dissecting what is Christian and what is everything else, like Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
