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Multiculturalism: not only a Fraud- but also Dangerous.
All cultures are not equal, insists Dr Frank Ellis, University of Leeds. To pretend otherwise, he argues, is destructive of Order and Prosperity. * The
following article appeared in the Politics section of the Freedom Today-Vol 23 Issue 1 in February
1998. The Chairman was the late Norris McWhirter sadly missed by many last year
and who was the standard bearer of Freedom Today with others who
have taken on the supreme mantle of the voice of the Journal of the Freedom
Association. (www.tfa.net) Before we proceed with the article we find in the same issue of Freedom Today of the York protest programme-the Anti-Maastrict Alliance which we attended 19 and 22nd March with many other demonstrators to voice our grave displeasure to such an intended Treaty. Unique co-operation All
the British anti-federalist groups including the Freedom Association
co-operated in the York ECOFIN events.
Meetings were held to co-ordinate the activities of all the
organisations taking part -as they do today under the ‘Battle for
Britain’. Lord Tebbit and( the late) Lord Shore The main event organised by the umbrella group, the
Anti-Maastrict Alliance met in the evening of Thursday 19 March 1998. Lord Tebbit, Lord Shore and other
distinguished speakers, addressed the meeting at 7pm. * * * Returning to the subject of Multiculturalism, which has now at the eleventh hour, has been now disowned by many in the Labour camp (details on our web-site) we continue: For
too long we have had the touchy-feely platitudes of multiculturalists stuffed
down our throats, so Lord Tebbit’s remarks at the last autumn’s Conservative
Party Conference (1998) were a welcome dose of bitter lemon to counteract the
saccharine. Multiculturalism
is a fraud. It is an extension of
Marxism,
based on the assumption that all cultures are more or less the same, and that
no single culture can, or should, be held in greater esteem than another. This
relativistic proposition totally ignores the massive discrepancy in
achievements and success among various cultures. Judgment of any kind is, of course, to be feared, since judgment
separates the wheat from the chaff. Senior
position. All
cultures are not equal. There
is a hierarchy of excellence, and western culture occupies the senior position.
Currently it has no serious rivals.
Whether the West will still occupy the senior position in a hundred
years is another matter entirely. If
the collective frauds perpetrated in the name of equality are not
arrested and reversed, then the chances are that the West, as a cultural and
intellectual entity, will fall to pieces, or be torn to pieces by bitter
internal divisions, or will succumb to external foes (written in 1998). Those who hate the West and its stunning achievements, and
American and British universities are full of such types (curiously they are
sometimes referred to as ‘intellectuals’), naturally hope to see the whole
Western cultural enterprise fall apart.
They were bitterly disappointed about the outcome of the Cold War and
their bitterness and self-loathing fuels their advocacy of
multiculturalism. They know full well that
multiculturalism is destructive of order and prosperity, which is why they back
it. Incentives
to achievement. Cultures
can indeed be judged. Successful ones are open to
new ideas. They respect historical
fact and maintain accurate records. Property
rights are recognised and secure.
Financial services and products are developed. Finally, they provide powerful incentives to individual
achievement. In
their early stages, economic and scientific progress is extremely vulnerable to
the vices of envy and the prerogatives of rulers, tribal elders and shamans who
feel threatened by innovation and discovery. It is the outcome of this clash between
the collective and the individual, which determines whether cultures are
able to exploit individual achievements, the basis of all scientific and
intellectual progress. Cultures which are driven by superstition, which are nepotistic, corrupt and do not punish failure will be no match for rivals which are energetic, entrepreneurial, and open to new ideas- and which respect and reward individual achievement. When
an individual of energy and some modicum of talent, who in India was born in
the wrong caste, and is thus doomed to go nowhere, comes to Britain, he has
chances for personal advancement way beyond what would be possible in
India. Multiculturalists being at heart
unrepentant Marxists, hate the idea of such an Individual’s success. For
once an Indian or black African succeeds on his own merit without the white
mischief of affirmative action and equal opportunities, then there is one
less person to whom appeals of collective self-pity and special pleading will
be attractive. That individual is Free. Multiculturalists
hate individual achievement and success. They have a
vested interest in failure. Toleration
of individual dissent has been one of the hallmarks of the West (above all
the Anglo/Saxon West) and the basis of its great prosperity and
intellectual achievements. But let us be clear about what we mean by
toleration. Tolerating unusual views,
which have been closely argued, subjected to independent verification and based
on evidence is, however, not the same as validating behaviour such as
homosexual life styles and the proliferation of anti-intellectual cults through
the mechanism of their uncritical acceptance. Deviant
behaviour is, of course, nothing new, and may yet play a decisive role in our
cultural fate. What is new is the way
in which we are now expected to react to it.
Again,
we are called upon to abandon our moral and intellectual judgment in the name
of thoroughly spurious notions of ‘Fairness, The
American experience with multiculturalism is no solution to Britain’s at
present, altogether milder problems. Billions
of tax dollars, some 30 years of equal opportunity and affirmative action
policies have not produced ethnic and racial harmony. Far from it. The effects on American
universities have been disastrous. The peddling of grotesque lies and evasions about black achievements are routine, and a sense of simmering racial resentment is palpable on many American campuses. Outside of the university America remains sharply and bitterly divided along racial lines. Two
conclusions can be drawn from the failure of multiculturalism. FIRST: Policies based on lies will not work. (This should be obvious to
our ‘intellectuals’) The day of
reckoning can be delayed, but not avoided indefinitely. SECOND: Beyond a certain limit, ‘difference’ and
‘diversity’, particularly, if they encourage and perpetuate customs which
are intellectually and economically inferior to the host culture itself.
By
then, it may be too late to stop the rot, at least by the standards and methods
conventionally employed in liberal democracies. Intellectual cowardice masquerading as tolerance thus creates a situation in which we all suffer. Multiculturalism does not to ‘fairness’ for some; it leads, ultimately to misery for all. Lord
Tebbit deserves our gratitude for speaking out against the dangers of
multiculturalism, and many other ills, which assail us besides. Those in the Conservative Party who argue
that he should just fade away miss the point.
Leadership (as opposed to management) civic courage (as opposed to
shutting up when you know something is wrong) and clarity and openness of
thought (as opposed to political- correct speak and evasion) are timeless
qualities. Without them the
Conservative Party is Finished. The
author: A former soldier, Dr frank
Ellis is a lecturer in Russian at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on Soviet war
literature and the Soviet media. His
monograph on the Soviet Russian writer Vassily Grossman: The
Genesis and the Evolution of a Russian Heritic, was published in 1994.
He has recently completed a second book, From Glasnost to the Internet:
Russia’s New Infosphere, which is published by Macmillan. Freedom
Today, February 1998. [Fonts altered-bolding
&underlining used] [Multiculturalism is no longer right for Britain -says CRE Head Trevor Phillips.]
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