mozzaok wrote on May 25
th, 2009 at 12:59am:
I love multiculturalism.
I love the fact that we can learn about other people, and start to recognise their similiarities, not just their differences.
I love that kids can grow up respecting other cultures, not thinking they must denigrate or stereotype them as inferior.
I love the fact that we can finally try to live a principle of brotherhood that so many preach, but so few practice.
Sure we have setbacks, and obstacles, but we will persevere, and we will see a better world for our kids, than the one we inherited, and our grandkids an even better one again, because it is only through understanding, that we can achieve acceptance, and only through acceptance, that we can achieve peace.
It is a noble goal, and a goal worth striving for, no matter how hard it may be at times.
Ok excuse me just while I finish barfing......
Why should we need to understand barbaric and backward cultures? Why are you so sure that *EVERY* other culture and philosophy around the world is beneficient and worthwhile so we must understand it? Couldn't it be possible, just possible, that outside of fantasy land there are cultures and practices that are undesirable, not benign, and perhaps, even..gasp..BAD?
Should we have embraced the culture of Nazism and Stalinism, and it was only our failure to be tolerant and accepting that prevented us from seeing it as enlightened? Should we have welcome practising Nazis onto our shores after World War II and said, 'You are free to practice your culture in peace, wave your Swastika in a parade as much as you like.'
And yet we let Muslims have parades waving the black flag of jihad, the flag of Hamas, and the flag of Hizbollah shouting in arabic, 'My life for you Nasrallah.' All of those people should have been rounded up and shot for treason.
There is one culture - the Australian culture. Moral relativism just means we are obsequious nothings that are unprincipled. Without any principles we fail to criticise abhorrent behaviour for fear of 'offending' anyone like craven cowards that deserve not this country nor even freedom.
Weak minded people such as yourself have been easily overwhelmed by the constant spew of leftist vomit throughout the education system - and so do not know what you stand for anymore, other than 'tolerance' of anything and everything. Nothing is ever bad, only our failure to understand is bad.
Well - wife beating is bad. Forcing women to wear bedsheets is bad. Mysogynistic cultures that hang homosexuals from cranes in the public square and stone the victims of rape to death is bad. And I don't give a flying f*ck whether someone says I have to respect that culture - I don't.
You're like the insane smiliing host of a dinner party who just keeps laughing and nodding while a guest uses an axe to smash up the house, and then cautions your other guests to applaud because doing so is being 'culturally sensitive'. That people such as yourself, exist at all is horrifying, that you can vote is almost enough to make it not worthwhile to try and stop this idiocy.
I am assured by those around me that people like you are in the minority, I hope that is true. If it's not, I am going to leave you all to your fate - because frankly you deserve it.