My colleagues here at the C-C have quite capably shown why the multiculturalist behaviors of Europe and some of the more liberal parts of America are damaging in a fundamental, real-world way to the liberties and rights we have come to expect from society. I, however, hold the title of ‘ivory tower idealist,’ and am therefore concerned with the absolutes of things.

Unfortunately for multiculturalists, not even in purely absolute terms is ‘diversity’ necessarily a good thing.

Multiculturalism stems from an intellectually bankrupt system of ethics called ‘cultural relativism,’ which, in short, states that an individual person’s moral actions should be judged based on the culture he is surrounded by. Thus, a cultural relativist, looking at the beheadings and suicide bombings in the Middle East and the culture from which the perpetrators come from, would be forced to concede that they were not behaving in a manner that violated the moral tenets of their culture - indeed, that the Islamic focus on martyrdom and fighting the infidel would praise such behavior - and that thusly we could not, having not been raised in that culture, judge the moral correctness of such actions.

Most of you can see how ludicrous this mindset is, and how thoroughly damaging to Liberal democracy it can easily become. Because we deny ourselves the right to take umbrage at suicide bombings, we deny ourselves the ability to call them precisely what they are: immoral. Indeed, I would venture to say ‘evil.’

Not all cultures are equally moral. Not all viewpoints are equally valid. This is a difficult fact for those steeped in ‘diversity’ to accept. If I assert the viewpoint that murder is not immoral, I would have an overwhelmingly difficult time convincing anyone - if I could at all - simply because we are all well aware that there is something fundamentally incorrect and undesireable about murder. It is no different to look at the actions of a given culture and sometimes glean the moral truth of it prima facie. The barbaric practices inherent in Islamic shari’a and east African tribalism are without doubt some of the most absurd, anti-civil and cruel behaviors humans have perpetrated upon one another in the modern world, backed by the flimsiest, most irrational justifications present in any widely accepted worldview.

Yet it is difficult, if not impossible, to motivate some multiculturalists to oppose them as vehemently as they deserve.

It is time people started realizing that some cultures and viewpoints are intrinsically better than others. Multiculturalists desire a world where diversity is the rule. But they’re going to find out very quickly that the low-minded practices of the truly savage leave no room for their egalitarianism.

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