Maybe you'd like to specify one of these 'internal contradictions'? ....... yeah, i thought not
Sure, no problem, the multi-culti internal contradiction only needs a moment's thought to those not under its spell: the contradiction lies in the claim that all morality is relative and no culture is superior to any other but must be judged only on its own terms.
If seriously adapted, that view means that you can have no moral views of your own but must adapt those of the culture you're looking at, so as to make only relative judgements. If that culture thinks slaughtering its enemies is proper, then so do you.
This is the strong form of moral relativism, which some people pay lip service to but nobody can practice in reality.
In reality, everybody stays non-judgemental only until push comes to shove, and the observed culture commits an honor killing or genocide or something that is too much for the observer to adjust to, so he condemns it. But he does so late and faintly, since he has basically undercut his own moral position for doing so.
Usually he will try to deflect the criticism from its proper object onto the nearest Western actor, whose past or present action or inaction can be blamed for problem. This is much more comfortable for the multi-culturalist since he can only blame those in what he considers his own culture. This is the impulse underlying a lot of the "root cause" discussions, where blame is shifted from the current actors to the past sins of Europe or America.
This is the weak form of moral relativism, which is essentially an affectation.
It is the basis by which the Left now runs around judging the world with a complete double standard: anybody included in 'Europe/US/the West' gets judged by whatever standard of EU perfection is lauded these days, but anybody included in 'Third World/Victims of Colonialism & Imperialism' gets judged either by no standard, or if the behavior has gone too far to ignore (e.g. the Darfur genocide), various Western actors are blamed for not doing something about it. Blaming the janjaweed militias who are committing the genocide on Khartoum's orders is not really allowed, since they are obviously not Western.
On this basis Israel (declared Western) is judged by a scale orders of magnitude different from the Palestinians (declared Third World victims of imperialism).
News organizations that have fully digested the multi-culti relativism (such as BBC and Reuters, to take two leading examples) have no problem falling all over themselves reporting that injustice may be done to the sister of a suicide bomber, who aided his attack and whom Israel deported from the West Bank to Gaza; but when the Palestinians declare a family 'collaborators' and begin torturing and killing all the family members of every age and sex without any attempt at due process, or when Arafat's police stick a man against a wall and shoot him under the noses of 50 foreign reporters, it won't even be reported. I'm not making these examples up, btw, they really happened. I know of the Palestinian actions only because I read the Israeli newspapers. |
