Zone1 Is “culture” worth defending?

[el midgetron]

Liberal academia places a lot of emphasis on people’s “culture”. They say you shouldn’t be “colorblind” because it neglects an important part of a person’s “identity”.

If culture is important to our identities, shouldn’t it be something that is also important to protect?



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[progressive hunter]

Liberal academia places a lot of emphasis on people’s “culture”. They say you shouldn’t be “colorblind” because it neglects an important part of a person’s “identity”.

I request that anyone who choses to contribute to this thread, to first please answer the following two questions.

(1) If culture is important to our identities, shouldn’t it be something that is also important to protect?

(2) If culture is important to protect, isn’t that the case for cultural separation? OR (2a) If not, how are you protecting your culture?



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without cultures we would all be robots that behaved exactly the same,,

 

[el midgetron]

without cultures we would all be robots that behaved exactly the same,,

Or, could be programmed to act however desired.

Please answer the questions in the OP.

 

[progressive hunter]

Or, could be programmed to act however desired.

Please answer the questions in the OP.

desired by who??

it would help if you specified which culture you are asking if it is worth defending,,

just inside the US we have dozens of not more types of culture,,

 

[el midgetron]

it would help if you specified which culture you are asking if it is worth defending,

Your culture.

 

[progressive hunter]

Your culture.

lets not make it personal,,

you didnt have me in mind when you asked the question,,



your questions are impossible to answer unless we can know specifically what youre talking about,,

I wouldnt defend a culture that oppressed women and cut the heads off of people that didnt support their culture,,

but I would defend one that wanted to drink green beer,,

 

[el midgetron]

lets not make it personal,,

you didnt have me in mind when you asked the question,,



your questions are impossible to answer unless we can know specifically what youre talking about,,

I wouldnt defend a culture that oppressed women and cut the heads off of people that didnt support their culture,,

but I would defend one that wanted to drink green beer,,

Identity is personal. I am not making it that way.

It’s a universal question. The specific culture is subjective and unique to everyone who answers,

Your culture.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Post enlightenment western liberalism is certainly worth preserving.

It is under siege by leftists who wouldn't recognize a liberal principle if it smacked them alongside their tiny little woke fascist heads.

 

[IM2]

Post enlightenment western liberalism is certainly worth preserving.

It is under siege by leftists who wouldn't recognize a liberal principle if it smacked them alongside their tiny little woke fascist heads.

No, it needs to be reformed.

 

[IM2]

Liberal academia places a lot of emphasis on people’s “culture”. They say you shouldn’t be “colorblind” because it neglects an important part of a person’s “identity”.

If culture is important to our identities, shouldn’t it be something that is also important to protect?



Research Help: Anti-racism Resources: What Does Racism Look Like? Colorblindness
Colorblindness: the New Racism?
Why saying “I don’t see race at all” just makes racism worse

There are such things as subcultures and the racist subculture within white culture needs to end.

 

[el midgetron]

There are such things as subcultures and the racist subculture within white culture needs to end.

Thanks for the contribution, sir.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

******* don't know how to make me a einspaenner


Backwards savages

 

[IM2]

******* don't know how to make me a einspaenner


Backwards savages

The cognitive dissonance of white racism has whites like you ignoring that it has been whites who have behaved like savages.

 

[jack3]

There's a reason for the name "Cultural Marxism." They dismiss economic Marxism because people like having things.

 

[Votto]

No, it needs to be reformed.

What needs to be reformed?

 

[Votto]

There's a reason for the name "Cultural Marxism." They dismiss economic Marxism because people like having things.

They sell their cultural Marxism in order for them to buy their economic Marxism, only, they have no idea what they just bought until it is too late.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

No, it needs to be reformed.

No.

All that is needed is for people to contribute to society instead of whining for free stuff from society because they see themselves as perpetual victims.

 

[el midgetron]

 

[frigidweirdo]

Liberal academia places a lot of emphasis on people’s “culture”. They say you shouldn’t be “colorblind” because it neglects an important part of a person’s “identity”.

If culture is important to our identities, shouldn’t it be something that is also important to protect?



Research Help: Anti-racism Resources: What Does Racism Look Like? Colorblindness
Colorblindness: the New Racism?
Why saying “I don’t see race at all” just makes racism worse

What is "culture"?

It's the first question, and I'd say it's "what people do".

You can't really protect it.

In one of Thomas Hardy's books, he lamented the changing world, that was a hundred years ago and more (he died in 1928).

If you do "protect it" you produce something different. You create an identity from the past identity that isn't the same as the culture that came before.

 

[Unkotare]

Liberal academia places a lot of emphasis on people’s “culture”. They say you shouldn’t be “colorblind” because it neglects an important part of a person’s “identity”.

If culture is important to our identities, shouldn’t it be something that is also important to protect?
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Culture, by its very nature, isn't something immutable.