Is "multiculturalism" a leftist code word for rejecting America's traditional core culture?

Question

"From its inception as a nation of immigrants 200-odd years ago, America has been the inclusive mulit-national, multi-ethnic society, unparalleled in all human history in its success in integrating diverse communities on the basis of an ideal of equality. This success has been predicated on an American culture (not a multiculture) that makes that integration possible and sustains that American idea.

Multiculturalism is a head-on challenge above all to the notion that there is an American culture, and, that this culture is superior to all other cultures in precisely the ambition to be inclusive and equal, and that, consequently, this culture is the very crucible of America's future and its multi-ethnic success.

Multiculturalism is the place the Left went to lick its wounds when the '60s was over, and to carry on its malevolent agendas. The question radicals faced at the time was: How to continue the war against the evil empire -- America -- now that socialism was indisputably bankrupt. You do it the Gramscian way -- Antonio Gramsci being one of the many many disreputable Communists (and not a few disreputable Nazis) who have been enshrined as intellectual icons by the academic Left. Gramsci's addition to Marxist theory was to suggest that by seizing control of the culture you could extend that control to the rest of the social order as well. Never mind that the notion that the ruling ideas may not be the ideas of the ruling class destroys the entire edifice of Marxist theory. Logic was never a strong point of the Left. The real beauty of Gramsci's strategy is that it lets you forget about economics (which you never understood anyway) and about the colossal failure, the pure evil of actual socialist achievements, while continuing your adolescent hatred for America and its immense good works".

- Repentent former radical Leftist David Horowitz

Answer 1

Quite simply, NO...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No. Of course not.



Accepting people's keeping their traditions is a basic American value; the anti-Americans who think a minority should be able to impose all their traditions on everyone else are just wrong.



Peace, social justice, and tolerance are NOT malevolent; rejecting them is malevolent. Uh, I've never heard of Gramsci, so saying I've enshrined him is silly.



Multi-culturalism is the opposite of "seizing a culture" -- it's a little thing call LIBERTY; letting people live their lives the way THEY want to live; not having a cultural dictatorship that forces everyone to live exactly the same way.



When, exactly, was Horowitz's brain damaged? He's the one who is completely illogical, and who hates America.

Answer 4

What the left fails to recall is that america is the melting pot. Where the cultural is enhanced by diversity but remains strong and the values remain the same.



We have become a salad bowl instead and I personally prefer the melting pot.

Answer 5

Your question makes no sense, by definition, American culture is Multi-culture.



To quote you ""From its inception as a nation of immigrants 200-odd years ago, America has been the inclusive multi-national, multi-ethnic society".



What is multiculturalism if not an "inclusive multi-national, multi-ethnic society".



As for the rest of your tome, all noise and no logic.

Answer 6

The young people of this country don't even realize the US had a culture. It has been slowly disappearing for my entire generation but mostly in the last 15 years. Hanging on to what is left of them is now considered to be a form of exclusion of other cultures, while that couldn't be farther from the truth. Our culture is being erased, and worse yet, demonized. The left has used the best attributes of liberal minds and turned it against their own heritage. Its creepy. I'm older and have seen this over the years but never so badly as now.

Answer 7

very perceptive of you to see how the left uses words to hide behind. Case in point the one you make above. Here is another one for you to think. UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS! The correct term is Illegal Alien. But since the correct term implies something negative, they have changed the term to undocumented worker which implies that they are only missing documentation, probably due to a gov mistake, but other than that they are legal. The truth is they crossed our borders illegally, ignoring our laws.

Answer 8

Oh just nonsense. And arrogant nonsense at that.

Horowitz would go on any side that paid him more.

Going looking for commies under the bed is the new Conservative past time I guess.

Answer 9

We're a nation of immigrants, genius. Of course we're multicultural.



Where did your ancestors come from? The Republic of Suburbia?

Answer 10

That is a good description and it is destroying this country