A Journal for Western Man-- Issue VII
G. Stolyarov II
Therefore, relativism (or �multiculturalism�, as its more affirmative-action specific offshoot is called) is ultimately a racist doctrine advocating persecution, segregation, and pressure-group warfare. Not only, say the relativists, are the African-Americans entitled to first dibs on employment because we cannot grasp their peculiar genetic requirements, but also because from the viewpoint of �African-American logic� it is necessary to displace the sub-humans that are the Caucasians who are incapable of �understanding� the life of the African-American in its full scope. So must minority quotas be established in colleges to seek to facilitate antagonistic pressure groups and create for them an arena where they may resolve their differences forcefully, determining whose genes may or may not be admitted based on the outcome of their slur-hurling, ancestor-blaming back-and-forth tirades.
That is why individual merit is inevitably discarded in the muck of relativistic polylogism. Grades and test scores cease to matter in college admissions, because arithmetic is somehow judged to be inaccessible to a twelfth-generation Eskimo-American and SAT tests are declared to be covering concepts against which there is an inherent barrier in the genetic makeup of Hispanics. Admissions are determined solely by one�s DNA �heritage�, and students cease to concern themselves with such trifling matters as learning the date of the Declaration of Independence�s signature (�What an absolutely Western-biased, Eurocentric document!�) or Sir Isaac Newton�s three laws of motion (�Obviously, an Englishman cannot describe how objects move in the world of the Apaches!�).
Dr. Michael S. Berliner and Dr. Gary Hull of the Ayn Rand Institute describe another devastating effect of racist collectivism, one taking its toll on the individual�s self-esteem. �The spread of racism requires the destruction of an individual�s confidence in his own mind. Such an individual then anxiously seeks a sense of identity by clinging to some group, abandoning his autonomy and his rights, allowing his ethnic group to tell him what to believe. Because he thinks of himself as a racial entity, he feels �himself� only among others of the same race. He becomes a separatist, choosing his friends � and enemies � based on ethnicity. This separatism has resulted in the spectacle of student-segregated dormitories and segregated graduations. The diversity movement claims that its goal is to extinguish racism and build tolerance of differences. This is a complete sham. One cannot teach students that their identity is determined by skin color and expect them to become colorblind. One cannot espouse multiculturalism and expect students to see each other as individual human beings. One cannot preach the need for self-esteem while destroying the faculty which makes it possible: reason. One cannot teach collective identity and expect students to have self-esteem.� This pressure-group mentality, that one can only rise or even feel comfortable in a group of the same genetic makeup as oneself, fuels ethnic conflicts on the streets and in universities, which in turn entail greater segregation and more explosive conflicts, in the manner of a positive loop. As racist hatred amasses, the only true diversity, that of individuals with various aptitudes, skills and levels of proficiency, becomes stifled, as a particular Caucasian prodigy may become barred from taking an honors course while a particular African-American dimwit receives a doctoral degree after putting less effort into his course work than he had wads of chewing gum under his desktop.
This modern racist relativism is most overtly manifested in the pop-culturist trends of today, where rappers rant about their desire to rape and murder innocent people, or to gorge themselves with a myriad of narcotics, and excuse it through recourse to their �uniquely African-American roots in the ghettoes�. This is a blend of racial and socioeconomic polylogism, a Communazism if you will, which seeks to incapacitate the judgment mechanisms of thinkers appalled at the trash of the lyrics accompanied by anti-aesthetic cacophony. And woe to him who dares criticize rap in a public setting, as he will immediately be decried as a bigot incapable of �understanding black culture�.
The intention of the racists is not cultural diversity, or even racial dominance per se. The racists are nihilists in that, in the Orwellian sense, they seek power for power�s sake and seek to inflict suffering for the purpose of retaining it. This is due to the fact that they are unable to thrive by means of production and thus enviously seek to degrade and enslave those who do, not because they want to live, but because they want the producers to die. The Oceanians in 1984 had been conditioned to viciously loathe the Eurasians and the Eastasians and giggle at the murder of foreign children. This placed them in a position to accept the oligarchy of the Party as a vehicle for materializing their hatred. This was Hitler�s motivation for scapegoating the Jews, as well as that of Lenin and Stalin for extorting the bourgeoisie. Neither is the property of the victims the ultimate aim, but rather the power obtained over those who had carried out the expropriations, those who had mouthed the slogans, be they of Aryan supremacy, of proletarian revolution, or of affirmative action. That the multiculturalists are militant supporters of every rancid feudal totalitarian primitivism, from the barbarities of the Aztecs to the oppression of the Hindu caste system to bin Laden�s �victimized response� to �U.S. imperialism�, demonstrates their nihilistic lust for pure uncontested power, one which despises the competitive principles of the capitalist system and seeks everything for nothing, to remain at the top without advancing by instead lowering those who are able to advance. The rule of such tyrannies and oligarchies throughout a majority of history was what had stunted progress in all cultures but one, and that is the reason why that one truly superior culture (not due to its racial roots, but precisely because of its universality and ability to enhance the lives of all men who seek to use its accomplishments) is under a vicious assault by the polylogist relativist left.
Columnist John Leo has spotted this trend. �Multiculturalism, with its radical cultural relativism, is becoming a serious problem. It leaves a great many students dubious about traditional American values and cynical about any sense of common purpose or solidarity. This is particularly so when the mantra of the cultural left that America is �racist-sexist-homophobic� is added to the mix. This hybrid philosophy -- no judgment of other cultures, but severe judgment of our own -- is already beginning to color many responses to the terrorist attacks. It peeks out from the behind the �root causes� argument and the need to �understand� the terrorists and to see their acts �in context.� Often what is really meant by the root-cause people is that reckless and imperial America brought the attacks on itself.� The motive for targeting America in particular is because American values are antithetical to racism and suffering for suffering�s sake. America had been a nation which managed to abolish slavery because of its racism and incompatibility with individual rights, because the imprisonment of human beings had also intervened with technological development and the job market. America had been a nation known to tolerate all ethnic and religious groups and establish uniform laws and uniform rights for all, implying, of course, that no one tribe is inherently different from another, that the laws of nature mandate particular negative obligations on behalf of all human beings toward each other, and that beyond this must form a hierarchy not of skin color or nationality or class ancestry, but of merit, determined by individual choice and accomplishment. The meritorious individual is the producer, and the producer is antithetical to the parasitically envious power-luster.
America, in its philosophical principles, is the epitome of color-blindness, which can be realized only through comprehending that there exists but one reality, one form of reason, one correct ethical code, and that coercive circumstantial discrimination must not hinder men from aspiring toward it for their own benefit. In order to follow the legacy of Jefferson and not Hitler, it is essential to wholly reject relativism, polylogism, and multiculturalism, lifting their �compassionate� veneer once and for all to reveal the hideous bloodbath that had always been and will be their end result.
References:
Berliner, Michael S. and Hull, Gary. �Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism�. Available October 2, 2002: http://multiculturalism.aynrand.org/diversity.html.
Leo, John. �Cultural relativism leaves some blind to evil�. October 15, 2001. Available October 2, 2002: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20011015.shtml .
Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action. 1949. �Chapter III. Economics and the Revolt against Reason.� Available October 2, 2002: http://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap3sec2.asp and http://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap3sec4.asp.