To begin with I might point out that jewish people have been beneficiaries of liberal multiculturalism as much as anyone else.
No, no, no, you are confusing the terms. You are conflating traditional liberalism together with multiculturalism. Jews benefited greatly from the first. They have been harmed by the second.
The two creeds fly under similar colors but couldn't be more different. The first is about people acting as individuals, citizens, being given opportunities to strive for merit, which is all judged on one standard no matter where the people were born or grew up. The second is about people acting as members of cultures, striving for things that are good only relative to their own culture, because there is no absolute merit across cultures and all good and evil is relative.
But to say the non west(what ever that may be ) is immune from judgement in the liberal media is just plain silly.
Once you accept multiculturalism, you accept that you can't judge the "other", which gives whoever is the "other" a pass that isn't given to "us". Now admittedly nobody can actually practice such pure muliculturalism because it means you believe in nothing yourself once your beliefs touch whatever is called the "boundary" between cultures, and nobody can function like that.
So mostly muliculturalism is practiced as a pose of non-judgement. But this pose can still provide cover for a huge, huge double standard. A double standard that not only judges more civilized countries more harshly than less civilized countries (not that they can be called "more civilized" anymore, wouldn't be pc), but that has ceased to expect any improvements from the other side because they are "other". Expecting improvements isn't pc either. And enforcing improvements certainly isn't pc, which I think is the real animus against the US invasion of Iraq.
I mean, why do you think Europe got so emotional about it? Did they love Saddam? Are Iraqis their close family? Were they terrified that if the US wasn't checked, the Marines would be invading Europe next? Did they think that the war would spread from Iraq all the way to Europe? To ask these questions is to see that they are silly. And please don't tell me it was concern for human rights. 250,000 people died in the Balkans in the 1990s, European people, and Europe barely did more than wring its hands. Don't try to tell me that Europe cares more about Iraqis than Serbs, Croats or Bosnians.
I think Europe was terrified to see that the superpower US does not think about things in the "safe" pc way they do. They have forgotten that the US actively maintains their safety. They think they have regulated safety into being, and it is only threatened by US bellicosity. |
