Western Culture Has Died A
Politically Correct Death
Western
Culture Has Died A Politically Correct Death
Paul Craig
Roberts
It is
amazing the power that politically correct kooks have acquired over language,
art, and literature. It is a sign that the West is culturally dead.
When high
museums rename paintings because some emotional weakling declares the name to
be offensive, it becomes obvious that the custodians of Western culture have
lost their belief in Western culture.
When
universities cover up murials because of a claim they are offensive to people
whose presence on the campus is miniscule if present at all, you know that
learning is no longer the purpose of the university.
When a
people are afraid to use the words and terms of their forefathers, you know
they have been intimidated to abandon even their own language and ways of
speaking.
Western
culture today consists of pornography, sexual deviants, whinning whimps
devestated by mere words, self-hatred, and craven cowards afraid to stand up
for themselves against the onslaught of hate directed toward them by political
correctness freaks.
The
political correctness people are the most alienated and emotionally weak
element in the society. Yet they dominate in the media,
entertainment, universities, and art world. How is it possible that
the Washingtonians are prepared to take us to war with real people—Russians,
Chinese and North Koreans—two countries that have already whipped us once—and
Persians, an ancient race that even the Romans had a hard time with? Do
the fools in Washington really think that our homosexualized, feminized,
transgenderized military can take on Russians, Chinese, and Persians? Hollywood
can make all the movies it wants with female superheroes, but superheroes are
the last thing whinning American feminists are.
The real
questions for the politically correct crowd are: (1) why isn’t war politically
incorrect, and (2) why isn’t it politically incorrect for the politically
correct arbiters of language to call the rest of us names? The real racists in
America are those who call white people racist.
What Your
Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University
By Philip
Carl Salzman
Universities
in the 20th century were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. Scholarship
and research were pursued, and diverse opinions were exchanged and argued in
the “marketplace of ideas.”
This is no
longer the case. Particularly in the social sciences, humanities, education,
social work, and law, a single political ideology has replaced scholarship and
research, because the ideology presents fixed answers to all questions. And,
although the most important thing in universities today is the diversity of
race, gender, sexual practice, ethnicity, economic class, and physical and
mental capability, there is no longer diversity of opinion. Only those
committed to the ideology are admitted to academic staff or administration.
Universities
have been transformed by the near-universal adoption of three interrelated
theories: postmodernism, postcolonialism, and social justice. These theories
and their implications will be explored here.
There Is
No Truth; Nothing Is Good or Bad
Postmodernism:
In the past, academics were trained to seek truth. Today, academics deny that
there is such a thing as objective Truth. Instead, they argue that no one can
be objective, that everyone is inevitably subjective, and consequently everyone
has their own truth. The correct point of view, they urge, is relativism. This
means not only that truth is relative to the subjectivity of each individual,
but also that ethics and morality are relative to the individual and the
culture, so there is no such thing as Good and Evil, or even Right and Wrong.
So too with the ways of knowing; your children will learn that there is no
objective basis for preferring chemistry over alchemy, astronomy over
astrology, or medical doctors over witch doctors. They will learn that facts do
not exist; only interpretations do.
All
Cultures Are Equally Good; Diversity Is Our Strength
Our social
understanding has also been transformed by postmodern relativism. Because moral
and ethical principles are deemed to be no more than the collective
subjectivity of our culture, it is now regarded as inappropriate to judge the
principles and actions of other cultures. This doctrine is called “cultural
relativism.” For example, while racism is held to be the highest sin in the
West, and slavery the greatest of our historical sins, your children will learn
that we are not allowed to criticize contemporary racism and slavery in Africa,
the Middle East, and the equivalents in South Asia.
The
political manifestation of cultural relativism is multiculturalism, an
incoherent concept that projects the integration of multiple incompatible
cultures. Diversity is lauded as a virtue in itself. Imagine a country
with fifty different languages, each derived from a different culture. That
would not be a society, but a tower of babble. How would it work if there were
multiple codes of law requiring and forbidding contrary behaviors: driving on
the left and driving on the right; monogamy and polygamy; male dominance and
gender equality; arranged marriage and individual choice? Your children will
learn that our culture is nothing special and that other cultures are awesome.
The West
Is Evil; The Rest Are Virtuous
Postcolonialism,
the dominant theory in the social sciences today, is inspired by the
Marxist-Leninist theory of imperialism, in which the conflict between the
capitalist and proletariat classes is allegedly exported to the exploitation of
colonized countries. By this means, the theory goes, oppression and poverty
take place in colonies instead of in relation to the metropolitan working
class. Postcolonialism posits that all of the problems in societies around the
world today are the result of the relatively short Western imperial dominance
and colonization. For example, British imperialism is blamed for what are in
fact indigenous cultures, such as the South Asian caste system and the African
tribal system. So too, problems of backwardness and corruption in countries
once, decades ago, colonies continue to be blamed on past Western imperialism.
The West is thus the continuing focus on anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist
sentiment. Your children will learn that our society is evil, and the cause of
all the evil in the wider world.
Only the
West Was Imperialist and Colonialist
This
ahistorical approach of postcolonialism ignores the hundreds of empires and
their colonies throughout history, as well as ignoring contemporary empires,
such as the Arab Muslim Empire that conquered all of the central Middle East,
North Africa, southern Europe, Persia, Central Asia, and northern India, and
occupied them minimally for hundreds of years, but 1400 years in the central
Middle East and North Africa, and occupy them today. China, once the Communists
took power, invaded Inner Mongolia to the north, Chinese Turkestan to the west,
and Tibet to the south. Once in control, the government flooded these colonies
with Han Chinese, in effect ethnically cleansing them. Postcolonialists have
nothing to say about any of this; they wish to condemn exclusively the West.
Your children will learn to reject history and comparisons with other
societies, lest the claimed unique sins of the West be challenged.
Western
Imperialism Was a Racist Project
Postcolonialists
like to stress the racial dimension of Western imperialism: as an illustration
of racism. But postmodernists are not interested in Arab slave raiding in
“black” Africa, or Ottoman slaving among the whites in the Balkans, or the
North Africans slave raiding of whites in Europe, from Ireland through Italy
and beyond. Your children will learn that only whites are racist.
White Men
Are Evil; Women of Color Are Virtuous
Social
justice theory teaches that the world is divided between oppressors and
victims. Some categories of people are oppressors and other are victims: males
are oppressors, and females are victims; whites are oppressors, and people of
color are victims; heterosexuals are oppressors, and gays, lesbians, bisexual,
etc. are victims; Christians are oppressors, and Muslims are victims. Your sons
will learn that they are stigmatized by their toxic masculinity.
Individuals
Are Not Important; Only Category Membership Is
Social
justice theory has taken university life by storm. It is the result of the
relentless working of Marxist theory, adopted by youngsters during the American
cultural revolution of the 1960s, then brought to universities as many of those
youngsters became college professors. Marxism as an academic theory was
explicitly followed by some in the 1970s and 1980s, but it did not sweep
everything else away, because the idea economic class conflict was not popular
in the prosperous general North American population. The cultural Marxist
innovation that brought social justice theory to dominance was the extension of
class conflict from economics to gender, race, sexual practice, ethnicity,
religion, and other mass categories. We see this in sociology, which is no
longer defined as the study of society but has for decades been defined as the
study of inequality. For social justice theory, equality is not the equality of
opportunity that is the partner of merit, but rather equality of result, which
ensures the members of each category at equality of representation irrespective
of merit. Your sons will learn that they should “step aside” to give more space
and power to females. Your daughters, if white, will learn that they must defer
to members of racial minorities.
Justice Is
Equal Representation According to Percentages of the Population
As there
is allegedly structural discrimination against all members of victim
categories, in order for equality of result to prevail, representation
according to percentages of populations must be mandated in all organizations,
in all books assigned or references cited, in all awards and benefits. Ideas
such as merit and excellence are dismissed as white-male supremacist dog
whistles; they are to be replaced by “diversity” of gender, race, sexual
preference, ethnicity, economic class, religion, and so on. (Note that
“diversity” does not include “diversity of opinion”; for only social justice
ideology is acceptable. Any criticism or opposition is regarded as “hate
speech.”) Academic committees now twist themselves into pretzels trying to
explain that “diversity is excellence.”
Members of
Oppressor Categories Must Be Suppressed
Of course,
the requirement of representation according to population applies only one way:
to members of victim classes. If whites, men, heterosexuals, Christians, etc.
are underrepresented, that is fine; the fewer the better. For example, females
now make up 60% of university graduates, although in the general age cohort
males are 51%. There is no social justice clamoring for males to be fully
represented. Members of disfavored oppressor categories are disparaged.
The classics of Western civilization should be ignored because they are the
work, almost exclusively, of “dead white men.” Only works of females, people of
color and non-Western authors should be considered virtuous. So too in
political history. The American Constitution should be discarded because its
writers were slaveholders.
Victims of
The World Unite!
“intersectionality”
is an idea invented by a feminist law professor. It argues that some
individuals fall into several victim categories, for example, black, female
lesbians have three points in the victim stakes, as opposed to male members of
the First Nations who receive only one point. Further, on the action front,
members of each victim category are urged to unite and ally with members of
other victim categories, because sharing the victim designation is the most
important status in the world. This leads to some anomalies. Black victims of
racism are urged to unite with Arab victims of colonialism, even though Arabs
have been and still are holders of black slaves.
Being
Educated Is About Being on The Right Side
As Karl
Marx said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways.
The point, however, is to change it.” The objective of a university education
today is to ensure that students chose “the right side” in changing the world.
The idea that it probably makes sense to try to understand the world before
attempting to change it, is rejected as outmoded, modernist empiricism and
realism, now superseded by postmodernism and social justice. If there is no
Truth, and whatever one feels or believes is one’s truth, then trying to gain
an objective understanding of the world is futile.
Things you
are not allowed to say anymore.
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