Mrs.Lucysnow
Valued Senior Member
I came across an interesting article in Al Jazeera written by an African-american academic who had married and moved to Norway. She writes an opinion piece on how Norwegians should approach multiculturalism after the deadly attacks this past month. In her lengthy piece she highlights Breivik's thoughts:
"Don't let multiculturalists define what racism is or isn't. Keeping an African against his [sic] will in your basement as a slave is racism. Loving your extended family/your ethnic group and fighting for ethnic and/or indigenous rights does not make you a racist; quite the opposite in fact. It makes you a civil rights activist." The underlying presumption of Breivik's thoughts is that White European interests, investments, and identity are what "politics" should protect and serve in a zero-sum game pitted against peoples of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. As it reflects a resurgent racialised European notion of nationalist politics, his perspective - about what racism is or isn't - remains unchallenged. Instead, many commentators attempt to change the subject away from race and towards youth, immigration, and the economy, as if those issues can be understood without consciousness of their racialised dimensions."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201182984256236502.html#disqus_thread
Then she floored me by asking the following questions:
"So how do we encourage Norwegians to become conscious of their unrecognised racial order and systems of privilege? How can white Norweigians build up the courage and awareness to become heroic "race traitors", disloyal to their own economic, social, and ideological investment in Whiteness?"
Has liberal academia become so drunk with their own PC kool-aid that they cannot see the problem with these problem solving questions?
Her assertion that white norwegians should become 'race traitors' disloyal to their own economic, social and ideological investment in 'whiteness' has probably caused a bunch of norwegians to throw down their newspapers and run straight to the nearest neo-nazi enclave.
Is the critique on multiculturalism so dead that its now assumed a de facto good thing for ANY people, regardless of race to undermine their own economic and social investment in their own basically homogenized nation?
Multiculturalism is being pushed down the throats of anyone who chooses to question it. Its not something anyone should think about but something everyone should simply accept as a known good.
The article goes on to highlight contradictions in Norwegian society as politicians call for unity and tolerance all the while rallying to limit immigration. How is limiting immigration and calling for tolerance a contradiction? No one has asked whether Norway is ready for the great multicultural experiment. No one has asked them whether they are prepared for the inevitable changes that mass immigration would bring. Perhaps its better to have that dialogue before asserting that immigration is a necessary good and then asking how you can fool people into being 'race traitors'.
I have to say that although Dr. Baker made some interesting statements and suggestions worthy of discussion, I was really disappointed by her apparent hidden agenda that somehow white people should abandon their own self-interests simply because Europeans have had a history of imperialism and colonialism. A way of saying, "You don't have a right to self-interest".
So what is it about multiculturalism that is naturally 'good', so good in fact that to question it turns one into a de facto racist?
*take the time to read the article because its ideologically pregnant*
"Don't let multiculturalists define what racism is or isn't. Keeping an African against his [sic] will in your basement as a slave is racism. Loving your extended family/your ethnic group and fighting for ethnic and/or indigenous rights does not make you a racist; quite the opposite in fact. It makes you a civil rights activist." The underlying presumption of Breivik's thoughts is that White European interests, investments, and identity are what "politics" should protect and serve in a zero-sum game pitted against peoples of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. As it reflects a resurgent racialised European notion of nationalist politics, his perspective - about what racism is or isn't - remains unchallenged. Instead, many commentators attempt to change the subject away from race and towards youth, immigration, and the economy, as if those issues can be understood without consciousness of their racialised dimensions."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201182984256236502.html#disqus_thread
Then she floored me by asking the following questions:
"So how do we encourage Norwegians to become conscious of their unrecognised racial order and systems of privilege? How can white Norweigians build up the courage and awareness to become heroic "race traitors", disloyal to their own economic, social, and ideological investment in Whiteness?"
Has liberal academia become so drunk with their own PC kool-aid that they cannot see the problem with these problem solving questions?
Her assertion that white norwegians should become 'race traitors' disloyal to their own economic, social and ideological investment in 'whiteness' has probably caused a bunch of norwegians to throw down their newspapers and run straight to the nearest neo-nazi enclave.
Is the critique on multiculturalism so dead that its now assumed a de facto good thing for ANY people, regardless of race to undermine their own economic and social investment in their own basically homogenized nation?
Multiculturalism is being pushed down the throats of anyone who chooses to question it. Its not something anyone should think about but something everyone should simply accept as a known good.
The article goes on to highlight contradictions in Norwegian society as politicians call for unity and tolerance all the while rallying to limit immigration. How is limiting immigration and calling for tolerance a contradiction? No one has asked whether Norway is ready for the great multicultural experiment. No one has asked them whether they are prepared for the inevitable changes that mass immigration would bring. Perhaps its better to have that dialogue before asserting that immigration is a necessary good and then asking how you can fool people into being 'race traitors'.
I have to say that although Dr. Baker made some interesting statements and suggestions worthy of discussion, I was really disappointed by her apparent hidden agenda that somehow white people should abandon their own self-interests simply because Europeans have had a history of imperialism and colonialism. A way of saying, "You don't have a right to self-interest".
So what is it about multiculturalism that is naturally 'good', so good in fact that to question it turns one into a de facto racist?
*take the time to read the article because its ideologically pregnant*
