Fjordman - Multiculturalism, A Communism for the 21st Century

A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis
of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies
to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the
United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or
sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists.

- University of Delaware's Office of Residence Life
' Diversity Facilitation Training ' document, 2007

If you ha ve always believed that everyone should play by the
same rules and be judged by the same standards, that
would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years
ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.

- Thomas Sowell, economist, 1998

There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure
states. Thats a 19th century idea and we are trying
to transition into the 21st century, and we are
going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

Wesley Clark, Retired U.S. General, 1999

Well keep bashing the dead White males, and the live ones,
and the females too, until the social construct known as the
White race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.

- Noel Ignatiev, Harvard professor, 2002

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me.
They are the marks of an insufferable privilege brought
at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself
inside out I would be glad. If I could become part
of the oppressed world I would be free.

-Robin Morgan,radical feminist, 1989

CONTENTS

Note: this e-book has not been approved by Fjordman it is an unof ficial
collection of selected articles published online between 2006 and 2014.

(June 2006)

FrontPage Magazine : You make the shrewd observation of how political correctness engenders evil because of the violence that it does to peoples souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe, but must not question. Can you talk about this a bit?

Theodore Dalrymple: Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. Ones standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

I have heard people who have grown up in former Communist countries say that we in the West are at least as brainwashed by Multiculturalism and Political Correctness as they ever were with Communism, perhaps more so. Even in the heyday of the East Bloc, there were active dissident groups in these countries. The scary thing is, I sometimes believe they are right.

But how is that possible? Dont we have free speech here? And we have no Gulag?

The simple fact is that we never won the Cold War as decisively as we should have. Yes, the Berlin Wall fell, and the Soviet Union collapsed. This removed the military threat to the West, and the most hardcore, economic Marxism suffered a blow as a credible alternative. However, one of the really big mistakes we made after the Cold War ended was to declare that Socialism was now dead, and thus no longer anything to worry about. Here we are, nearly a generation later, discovering that Marxist rhetoric and thinking have penetrated every single stratum of our society, from the Universities to the media. Islamic terrorism is explained as caused by poverty, oppression and marginalization, a classic, Marxist interpretation.

What happened is that while the hard Marxism of the Soviet Union may have collapsed, at least for now, the soft Marxism of the Western Left has actually grown stronger, in part because we deemed it to be less threatening. The hard Marxists had intercontinental nuclear missiles and openly said that they would bury us. The soft Marxists talk about tolerance and may seem less threatening, but their goal of overthrowing the evil, capitalist West remains the same. In fact, they are more dangerous precisely because they hide their true goals under different labels. Perhaps we should call it stealth Socialism instead of soft Socialism.

One of the readers of Fjordman blog once pointed out that we never had a thorough de-Marxification process after the Cold War, similar to the de-Nazification after WW2. He was thinking of the former Soviet Union and the countries in Eastern Europe, but he should probably have included their Marxist fellow travellers, their sympathizers and apologists in the West. We never fully confronted the ideology of Marxism, and demonstrated that the suffering it caused for hundreds of millions of people was a direct result of Marxist ideas. We just assumed that Marxism was dead and moved on, allowing many of its ideals to mutate into new forms and many of its champions to continue their work uninterrupted, sometimes filled with a vengeance and a renewed zeal for another assault on the capitalist West.

We are now paying the price for this. Not only has Marxism survived, it is thriving and has in some ways grown stronger. Leftist ideas about Multiculturalism and de-facto open borders have achieved a virtual hegemony in public discourse, their critics vilified and demonized. By hiding their intentions under labels such as anti-racism and tolerance, Leftists have achieved a degree of censorship of public discourse they could never have dreamt of had they openly stated that their intention was to radically transform Western civilization and destroy its foundations.

The Left have become ideological orphans after the Cold War, or perhaps we should call them ideological mercenaries. Although the viable economic alternative to capitalism didnt work out, their hatred for this system never subsided, it merely transformed into other forms. Multiculturalism is just a different word for divide and conquer, pitting various ethnic and cultural groups against each other and destroying the coherence of Western society from within.

At the very least, the people living in the former Communist countries knew and admitted that they were taking part in a gigantic social experiment, and that the media and the authorities were serving them propaganda to shore up support for this project. Yet in the supposedly free West, we are taking part in a gigantic social experiment of Multiculturalism and Muslim immigration every bit as radical, utopian and potentially dangerous as Communism, seeking to transform our entire society from top to bottom, and still we refuse to even acknowledge that this is going on.

In Norway, a tiny Scandinavian nation that was until recently 99% white and Lutheran Christian, native Norwegians will soon be a minority in their own capital city, later in the whole country. And still, Norwegian politicians, journalists and University professors insist that there is nothing to worry about over this. Multiculturalism is nothing new, neither is immigration. In fact, our king a century ago was born in Denmark, so having a capital city dominated by Pakistanis, Kurds, Arabs and Somalis is just business as usual. The most massive transformation of the country in a thousand years, probably in recorded history, is thus treated as if it were the most natural thing in the world. To even hint that there might be something wrong about this has been immediately shouted down as racism.