Anyone wanting to understand the complete failure of education in America need only to read the comments section on any Substack yammering about kumbaya between Israelis & Pals.
It’s almost as if the multicultural crowd whining for kumbaya is so appallingly ignorant of cultures other than the West, that they actually believe everyone wants to turn the other cheek, get along, hold hands and sing kumbaya over a beer, and it’s mean ol’ government getting in the way.
It’s almost like they are too uneducated to grasp the prefix they incorrectly insist represents them: “multi-.”
If they looked, for one minute, at the gross, centuries-long violence between the two micros, Shia & Sunni, of the macro Islam, that they have been killing each other for a thousand years, they might - might - be disabused of their near-intolerable level of ignorance. Or how Chinese treat Uighurs, or how Crow used to treat Sioux, or how Progs treat adults.
All cultures are *NOT* the same. “Multicultural” does *NOT* mean Western mores & behaviors with weird clothes & food.
When the street police in Tehran beat a woman to death for showing her hair, that’s their culture; when the Saudi judicial authorities behead a guy or chop a hand, that’s their culture. When Hamas rapes and murders, or murders and then rapes the corpse, that’s their culture.
You don’t get to say you support physics but reject gravity.
Saying “all people want to get along” is utter ahistorical claptrap to which only a definitional idiot could ascribe.
Expecting Western mores from non-Western cultures is just stupid, and appallingly ignorant.
You are right on! Waking up to this reality is the first step to sanity in our political process and governance. And it applies as much to domestic affairs as it does to international relations!
Amen, amen, amen!
I'm stunned at how many unthining people expect Israel to "just get along" with Hamas and other groups whose bluntly stated pledge is to kill every Jew and wipe Israel off the map "from the river to the sea." You wouldn't invite someone to dinner and to spend the weekend at your house who is pledging to kill you and your whole family and burn your house down.
Cultures are NOT all equally valuable. Cultures that murder people they just don't like and subjigate more than half of their own people are NOT equal to ours. Cultures demanding a worldwide caliphate with death to anybody who doesn't convert to their religion is not "equal" to our culture of freedom and self-determination.
And we shouldn't be letting any of them into our country.