[MD] Evil "Multiculturalism" and Big Bad Hispanics

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> No -- a homage to individual rights -- of  life, liberty and the 
> pursuit of happiness -- not provided by culture, but endowed by the
> Creator.
> 
> [Arlo]
> "There is no "self-evidence" in European history that all men are 
> created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't trace its 
> history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men are created 
> unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given credit for 
> this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of Europe or 
> Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World upon 
> Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of individual 
> who lived in the New World, the person he called the "Noble Savage."

What's your point? That the self-evident truths in the Declaration were 
held first by American Indians?

> Multiculturalism.
> 
> "The Indians were the originators of the American style of life. The 
> American personality is a mixture of European and Indian values." (LILA)

> Multiculturalism.
> 
> As for "not provided by culture", your merely repeating the same 
> mistake Pirsig warns against. "...in the historic process of freeing 
> itself from its parent social level, namely the church, has tended to 
> invent a myth of independence from the social level for its own 
> benefit. Science and reason, this myth goes, come only from the 
> objective world, never from the social world. The world of objects 
> imposes itself upon the mind with no social mediation whatsoever."
> (LILA)
> 
> "Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They 
> originate out of society" (LILA)
> 
> "Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived."
> (LILA)

None of the above has anything to do with multiculturalism -- the doctrine 
that no culture is better than any other, past or present, especially 
American culture.  

> These rights are most certainly culturally-derived, in this case from 
> the culture of the American Indian.
> 
> Not "endowed by the Creator" but emergent from culture. Not from God, from
> us.

Yes, precisely the view of a collectivist. Thanks for confirming your 
position.