The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
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Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Our multicultural Commonwealth
I admit it: I'm a monoculturalist. Come to think of it, I'm mono a lot of things, loyal as I am to one wife (monogamous), one country (monoculturalist), one queen (monarchist) and one God (monotheist). As we say, a rational loyalty to the one. Things just seem a lot clearer that way.
That's not to cast a jaundiced eye on the issue, or treat the matter as black and white - far from it. But on the spectrum between total assimilation (extreme monoculturalism) and flat out cultural apartheid (extreme multiculturalism), I'm thinking it might be more prudent to error on the side of a policy that emphasizes integration over segregation. We need only look at the appalling living conditions on the numerous and isolated Indian Reserves sprawled out across this vast territory of ours, some of them nefariously governed gasoline-sniffing ghettos, to see the result of government-sponsored segregation run amok. Great policy, that. And all in the name of "tolerance".
The Liberals have had a monopoly on the tolerance industry ever since Pierre Trudeau invented official government multiculturalism for the world in 1971. Since that time, we have come to understand that the political appeal lie not in promoting social cohesion in an immigrant-dependent country, but in the political dividends parties receive from ethnic pandering and vote-buying manipulation of our immigrant communities. What is clear by now is that radical multiculturalism is essentially an intellectual leftist project, a project that so far hasn't gone astray thanks only to the enduring strength and inherent assimilationist tendencies of our civil society. What the ethnic panderers don't understand is that with strong civil societies such as ours, immigrant individuals and families can be amalgamated quite readily without state intervention, while safeguarding the freedoms they require to follow their own customs, religion and culture. But hey, that doesn't square nicely with leftist virtues, now does it.
Amazingly, multiculti political correctness has now moved to Australia and Great Britain, even receiving a kind of Royal Assent from our Queen, who embraced it for the first time in an officially recognized way during her Christmas address to the Commonwealth in December, 2004. I'm not sure what brought this on, but presumably she's atoning for imperialism's past sins, the assumption of cultural superiority Her Majesty's predecessors inflicted on us poor colonials back in the days of a paternalistic empire.
Well, t'is all for naught. Has any of the Queen's advisors bothered to explain to Her Majesty that self-hating multiculturalists largely seek to abolish the monarchy in the belief that this is the most comfortable way to accomodate new immigrants to our shores? Apparently they believe this because most immigrants are not of British descent, and so it would be the "tolerant" thing to do. That's the gross fallacy in this madness: the misguided belief that the country should be assimilated by immigrants rather than the other way around. Now I have to ditch the Queen? I've had it. This is a declaration of war.
POSTSCRIPT: Hat tip to Canadianna for leading me to Salim Mansur, who has an excellent article in today's Toronto Sun right here on the fundamental boneheadedness of our multicultural kingdom.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 10:29 p.m. | LINKS |
I admit it: I'm a monoculturalist. Come to think of it, I'm mono a lot of things, loyal as I am to one wife (monogamous), one country (monoculturalist), one queen (monarchist) and one God (monotheist). As we say, a rational loyalty to the one. Things just seem a lot clearer that way.
That's not to cast a jaundiced eye on the issue, or treat the matter as black and white - far from it. But on the spectrum between total assimilation (extreme monoculturalism) and flat out cultural apartheid (extreme multiculturalism), I'm thinking it might be more prudent to error on the side of a policy that emphasizes integration over segregation. We need only look at the appalling living conditions on the numerous and isolated Indian Reserves sprawled out across this vast territory of ours, some of them nefariously governed gasoline-sniffing ghettos, to see the result of government-sponsored segregation run amok. Great policy, that. And all in the name of "tolerance".
The Liberals have had a monopoly on the tolerance industry ever since Pierre Trudeau invented official government multiculturalism for the world in 1971. Since that time, we have come to understand that the political appeal lie not in promoting social cohesion in an immigrant-dependent country, but in the political dividends parties receive from ethnic pandering and vote-buying manipulation of our immigrant communities. What is clear by now is that radical multiculturalism is essentially an intellectual leftist project, a project that so far hasn't gone astray thanks only to the enduring strength and inherent assimilationist tendencies of our civil society. What the ethnic panderers don't understand is that with strong civil societies such as ours, immigrant individuals and families can be amalgamated quite readily without state intervention, while safeguarding the freedoms they require to follow their own customs, religion and culture. But hey, that doesn't square nicely with leftist virtues, now does it.
Amazingly, multiculti political correctness has now moved to Australia and Great Britain, even receiving a kind of Royal Assent from our Queen, who embraced it for the first time in an officially recognized way during her Christmas address to the Commonwealth in December, 2004. I'm not sure what brought this on, but presumably she's atoning for imperialism's past sins, the assumption of cultural superiority Her Majesty's predecessors inflicted on us poor colonials back in the days of a paternalistic empire.
Well, t'is all for naught. Has any of the Queen's advisors bothered to explain to Her Majesty that self-hating multiculturalists largely seek to abolish the monarchy in the belief that this is the most comfortable way to accomodate new immigrants to our shores? Apparently they believe this because most immigrants are not of British descent, and so it would be the "tolerant" thing to do. That's the gross fallacy in this madness: the misguided belief that the country should be assimilated by immigrants rather than the other way around. Now I have to ditch the Queen? I've had it. This is a declaration of war.
POSTSCRIPT: Hat tip to Canadianna for leading me to Salim Mansur, who has an excellent article in today's Toronto Sun right here on the fundamental boneheadedness of our multicultural kingdom.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 10:29 p.m. | LINKS |
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