The Multi-Culturalists are convinced that they are right, and that their views are the only rational ones. Therefore if you argue against them you must be irrational, deranged, and possibly evil. In their eyes they are just taking steps to prevent madmen and evil people from speaking up in society. Everything they do makes perfect sense if you think at it that way, after all what would you feel entitled to do if a Stalin or Mussolini were to pop up in your community?
The Multi-Cultural elite can continue to maintain their fantasies because they are the 68ers, the generation of 1968, they are established, often wealthy, and all the immigrants they come in touch with will be adult and polite. They never see the dark side of immigration where they sit in their safe neighbourhoods. Even if they do spot a few undeniable incidents they can explain away statistics by claiming immigrants are arrested or reported more often, or that it is done because they are oppressed or poor. Humans are after all the rationalizing creature, not the rational one.
The young anarchists and radicals are not only young and foolish, but they think they are revolutionaries, and it's much more fun being on the dole, and being a revolutionary, than it is working at McDonalds. When you throw in a liking or acceptance of violence against "evil people" they too can explain away anything that doesn't fit their perception.
They have a problem though: the Multi-Cultural project was supposed to get better as time progressed, with the "racists" being laughed at and suppressed. Instead things are getting worse, people are openly protesting, anti-immigration parties are gaining strength. Something is obviously wrong here, and that something is the evil people that are against immigration.
Nationalism is derided by all European intellectuals, I don't believe in grand Gramscian schemes, I do believe in intellectual inertia. Remember that European intellectuals were heavily influenced by the Soviet Union and Socialism, then remember that American intellectuals are heavily influenced by European intellectuals. Anti-Nationalism was a strand of all Socialist thinking, and Nationalism suffered a lot due to the World Wars.
If there is one thing that is always found when people are against Internationalism or Multi-Culturalism then it is Nationalism, Patriotism, call it what you will. They were already against Nationalism, seeing it as evil, but now comes a second impulse: the desire to hurt and punish "evil people."
Claiming that this is purely due to a desire to hurt "daddy" is simplifying it too much, the Multi-Culturalists are daddy, they are the power or closely linked to it, they may deny this but it remains true.
I will give you some examples now, these are things I have personally experienced, and they are common in most Scandinavian nations.
Anti-Racism is taught extensively, if you go to a Scandinavian school you will on multiple occasions be made to sit through anti-racist short films. You will in addition be required to answer questions about it, and to have a class discussion about the subject. On multiple occasions you will be asked to participate in anti-racist work groups, encouraged to put up anti-racist plays or sketches. All of this is mandatory.
If you go to the school dining hall you will notice that there are multiple anti-racist posters hung on the walls with slogans like "They do not dilute our culture, they add to it." If you pass by tables in the halls with pamphlets on them, for educational offers and such, you can be sure that several of them will deal with the struggle against racism.
The United Nations is sacred, there are special campaign days where grade school students work a day to collect money for some program abroad, often UN related. There are films shown about the UNs work abroad, in high-school you will receive pamphlets telling you how you can help the UN. There are workgroups, and songs, and what have you to explain how great the UN is.
A Norwegian politician and activist was once asked what he thought of the moral code of the bible, his answer was: "Obviously there are some good moral rules there, but these days you can find that elsewhere, like the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights." That's the kind of near religious attitude that's promoted in regards to the United Nations.
The funny thing is that none of it works.
The students are taught that it is shameful and disgraceful to have "racist" thoughts, defined as any criticism of immigrants or immigration. They are taught that it is somehow dirty to object to immigration, illicit, and therefore they keep quiet about it. In short the attitude that is promoted is one familiar to any authoritarian state, people can't speak their minds and therefore don't know if anyone else agrees with them.
However...
Despite the propaganda, and that is what it is, people can plainly see that there are problems. They can see burka clad women in the streets, with the men walking in front. They hear about people who are beaten up and robbed, they have to lock their doors, they are afraid to walk in their own towns. So they are upset, and growing more upset, despite sterner hate speech laws, despite more desperate propaganda.
One of the anti-racism laws in Norway has this in it:
Even such draconian laws fail to stem the tide, people may be forced to be silent in public, but they talk in private, and they start to disbelieve the governments propaganda. Unfortunately they sometimes disbelieve the truth as well, since they've come to view as suspect all government statements in this field.§ 10. Burden of proof
If there are circumstances that gives cause to believe that there has been a violation of paragrafs §§4, 5, 6, 7 or 9, it shall be assumed that a violation has occurred, unless the person responsible for the action, omission, or statement gives evidence that it's more probable than not that there has been no such violation.
The reason is that Multi-Culturalism is inherently flawed, it literally cannot work. The Multi-Culturalists cannot accept this, because it goes against their dislike of nationalism, and their belief that human behaviour is primarily dictated by economic concerns.
The reaction people have when they see that something is wrong depends on Culture, and on the political system of the nation involved.
In Denmark and Norway elections are genuinely secret: you're allowed into a small cubicle where you find election slips for all the major parties, you put one slip into an envelope, leave the cubicle, walk to the voting urn and drop the envelope into it.
In Sweden representatives of the various parties stand outside the voting boot, and you must ask for that slip of paper, in short the neighbours can see whose slip of paper you collect.
In short in Denmark and Norway you could do the shameful thing, voting for anti-immigrant parties, in secret without anyone else knowing who did it. Afterwards, once the party gains a lot of votes, it's not so shameful anymore, and that is why those parties draw so much vitriol; they are taking a shameful thing and making it acceptable. Puritans everywhere hate that, even socialist puritans.
In Sweden the shameful thing must be done in the public view, where all can see, and rumours would fly. Not so easy is it? Then add that the Swedes are traditionally very devoted to the state, and to order, making it doubly hard to go against the consensus.
Here then you have the difference between the Scandinavian countries, quite simple when you look at it. Once more it's the same in authoritarian countries, if you're not really able to organise or speak out you learn to keep your mouth shut, but once people can talk the tidal waves often open. There's nothing as destabilizing as free and secret elections, and that is a good thing.
Ideologies tend to grow in isolation, among people who think alike, if they can also isolate themselves from the rest of the world that is even better, that creates a huge echo chamber where no true dissenting voice can be heard. Since their grandiose plans make so much sense when they discuss them, and since there's no real dissent they get very upset when someone makes a genuine objection.
It gets even worse when they have no good answer. Hell hath no fury as an ideologue presented with an objection he can't answer easily or at all.
Ideas have consequences, basic doctrine has consequences, an ideology or belief cannot escape its background. A doctrine that hasn't been tested against the real world during its inception tends to have severe flaws. Multi-Culturalism is not based so much on the idea that cultures are all equal, as on the idea that culture doesn't matter; it's economic conditions that make people behave they way they are.
Consider this: Why are there no revolutions in Europe? Because the people have no reason to rebel, they are rich and fat. The oppressed working classes are now abroad, since the wealth of the West must come from oppression then it is they who are being oppressed, but they cannot rebel since they are in a different country. The solution obviously is to bring the oppressed masses into Europe, to force the Europeans to conform to the ideal, to share the wealth, and to bring about a revolution.
Instead of looking for conspiracies look for naiveté, sympathy for the oppressed, and the old socialist belief that people are economic creatures and that their behaviour is mainly due to the economic conditions they labour under. For the hardcore Marxist there's also the tantalizing possibility of a revolution once they have a new oppressed proletariat.
Once more from their point of view if you object to another culture you are either selfish and evil, or simply irrational, because everyone knows that cultures don't really matter. Get rid of the Nations, of the Cultures, mix everyone together and all that is left are the economic pressures.
That is how they can deal with Islamism, to them it is honestly not much of a problem, sure they are primitive and backwards now but a few generations in the west will solve that. Meanwhile the Muslims are viewed as a wonderful oppressed underclass who will vote the right way, threaten the evil people, and then gracefully turn into good citizens of the world once Nationalism and Nations are no more. That to me is the real racism.
Then again you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!
Just don't ask where all the omelettes are...
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