A British former yap show host, Robert Kilroy-Silk, started his own far right party not long ago. In launching his Veritas Party's manifesto (campaign program), Kilroy-Silk railed against a popular demon: multiculturalism. According to him, multiculutralism was imposed on Britain by "liberal fascists in London."
"We do not and we will not, and we will say that openly so that people will have the confidence to know that all cultures are not equal - they are not," fumed Kilroy-Silk. "There are some that are reprehensible are not entitled to respect and we should say so."
Our culture is the be all and end all. Everything about every other culture is totally worthless, if not downright abominable.
Ironically, if imperial Britain had never conquered huge swathes of land in the four corners of the Earth, then little England might not have become a destination for so many people of oddly colored skin, strange accents and heathenous religions. Kilroy-Silk's White Man's Burden is precisely the cause of the multiculturalism he so denounces.
Normally, I wouldn't bother writing about this as it's pretty standard fare for the self-styled anti-'political correctness' crowd. Except for this passage: However, Mr Kilroy-Silk stressed that he believed firmly in the equality of all people of whatever race, creed or sex and that he had campaigned on this as an MP.
So all cultures aren't equal but all people are? Even people who are part of 'reprehensible' cultures? What exactly is culture, if not a manifestation of the beliefs and tastes of... people?
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