О гибельности мультикультурализма Ядовитейшая статья Марка Стейна из The New Criterion.
Предрекает крах современной Европе уже в ближайшие четверть века. Готов согласиться со многими ее положениями, хотя демографический прогноз вызывает большие сомнения. Но это лишь потому, что демографические прогнозы никогда не оправдываются. В частности, сильно сомневаюсь, что быстрый рост численности "мусульман" в Европе будет происходить за счет более высокой рождаемости.
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The progressive agenda —lavish social welfare, abortion, secularism, multiculturalism—is collectively the real suicide bomb. Take multiculturalism: the great thing about multiculturalism is that it doesn’t involve knowing anything about other cultures—the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures.
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Lady Kennedy was arguing that our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.
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That’s the wonderful thing about multiculturalism: you can choose which side of the war you want to fight on. When the draft card arrives, just tick “home team” or “enemy,” according to taste.
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We’re (Запад - tugdjae) pretty much awash in resources, but we’re running out of people—the one truly indispensable resource, without which none of the others matter. Russia’s the most obvious example: it’s the largest country on earth, it’s full of natural resources, and yet it’s dying—its population is falling calamitously.
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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb: the grand buildings will still be standing but the people who built them will be gone. We are living through a remarkable period: the self-extinction of the races who, for good or ill, shaped the modern world.
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within the next couple of European election cycles, the internal contradictions of the
EU will manifest themselves in the usual way, and that by 2010 we’ll be watching burning
buildings, street riots, and assassinations.
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It’s the demography, stupid
Mark Steyn