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Re: Multiculturalism leads to moral relativism
by pwoxby

I dislike turnips but I have never confused fascism with turnips. If you have an intelligent response to my chacterization of fascism, I'd like to hear it.

Consider this gem from Ralph7: "In order, to love one’s self, one must have a belief that one’s culture is good; when all is morally relative there is no self-identity to love."

If a person's sense of identity in a multicultural society is tied to the idea that the person's subculture is good and, by implication, that the other subcultures are bad that leads to blind intolerance. If the cultural majority embraces the twin concepts of cultural superiority and intolerance of diversity, that leads to fascism. It happened in Germany and Japan.

Note that I am not endorsing moral relativism. Some cultures are bad on objective grounds. But the fact that you or I or Ralph7 don't identify with a different culture does not make that culture bad. And that's exactly what Ralph7 is saying with his asinine title: "Multiculturalism leads to moral relativism".

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