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| Progressive multiculturalism is no match for Islamic fundamentalism. | |
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| Dave Spelvin | Jun 16 2012, 01:05 PM Post #76 |
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That's an ugly picture, IT. Only by misunderstanding me deliberately can you post a horror like that. What's your point other than to shock people who can't follow the argument? Do you want me to counter this by posting black men hanging from trees, surrounded by southern white families like it's a picnic? There are such pictures and they would be equally irrelevant in condemning an entire culture. You talked about intellectual integrity the other day. Why don't you take a few moments and try to find some? |
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| Renauda | Jun 16 2012, 01:29 PM Post #77 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sounds like a progressive lack of accountability complex. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 16 2012, 01:30 PM Post #78 |
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David -- I have no idea what your point is apart from what you actually write. You stated "I say you can't make global value judgments across cultures." Yet you obviously don't believe such nonsense. So go ahead and post pictures of black people hanging from trees -- go find one taken in the past half century to show the sort of moral equivalence that you seem to be arguing. Otherwise, why don't you simply acknowledge that we really can make adverse value judgments across cultural lines? We obviously were willing to confront our own bad values of racism, as evinced by the blindingly obvious fact that there are presumably no black people swinging from the trees in your home town. |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 16 2012, 02:43 PM Post #79 |
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I agree with you, Moonbat -- cultures are never monolithically good or bad. The issue with Deweyism and his multicultural approach to education was an unwillingness to make any sort of virtue judgment, since it implied some objective standard by which one can say such and such was bad -- its not a question of moral superiority/ inferiority, though that sort of language was certainly part of the whole European colonial expansionism of the 18th and 19th centuries into Africa and southern Asia. The entire concept behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is precisely that we can and ought to make adverse judgments where adverse judgments are called for. All the sort of handwaving about "the African experience" or "multicultural toleration" is basically nonthinking. |
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| Dave Spelvin | Jun 16 2012, 03:16 PM Post #80 |
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An example of a "global value judgment" is that the Aztecs were bad because they sacrificed virgins or Muslims are bad because some of them want to kill us. That's what I mean by "global" -- using specifics elements to condemn the whole. I never said or suggested that it's OK to cut off someone's nose. I've said repeatedly and I'll say again here that the nose-cutting part of that culture should not be used to condemn the entire culture, just as the fact that Americans owned slaves and hanged black men from trees should not be used to condemn the entire American culture. As for timing, I happily admit that lynching as a cultural phenomenon is a thing of the past in our country. With respect to sliced noses, it seems to me that we can help put a stop to that practice, and clitorectomies, rather than demon an entire culture because some within that culture now engage in these practices. I know that cultures evolve over time (see lynchings and slavery) and I sincerely hope that these practices soon become a part of these cultures' history, as lynching and slavery has become a part of ours. The other point I've tried to make in this thread is that we should not fear that American culture will expand to accept nose removal and clitorectomies, just as we should not fear that shari'a law will become the law of the land or that we will become just like European socialist countries, etc. If our values are strong, and I am confident they are, these things will simply not have a chance over here. |
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| Dave Spelvin | Jun 16 2012, 03:17 PM Post #81 |
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I've been saying this for pages. What the hell are we fighting about? |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 16 2012, 03:52 PM Post #82 |
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Probably the fact that you used bizarre terms like paranoia to describe people who don't accept the multicultural PC nonsense. |
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| Dewey | Jun 16 2012, 03:59 PM Post #83 |
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Hm, just to clarify, were you referring to this Dewey ![]() or this one? ![]() I get criticized enough for my actual beliefs, just want to make sure I'm not also being criticized for beliefs I don't hold. |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 16 2012, 05:43 PM Post #84 |
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That one's a real Square. |
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