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[daskalos]

Points on this thread about racism and ethnocentrism are well-made and well-taken.

It is, though, a fascinating paradox that people who would gather in the their nation�s capital to protest their nation�s unequal treatment of women, gays, blacks, undocumented workers, et al, would condemn voices raised in condemnation of entire cultures that treat women, gays and minority ethnicities/religions in ways so unequal as to be called, by liberal, humanistic standards, medieval and barbaric.

It is possible to abhor the death of civilians and to abhor the culture in which those civilians died. The tragedy of dead babies in a barbaric culture does not equate to the rightness of that culture�s cause or world view. The tactic of the suicide bomber is not morally equivalent to the tactic of the bombing of an enemy who hides his missile batteries in a hospital.

The sad reality that most Western and Eastern people don�t give two bits about the plight of the average African in Africa does not have anything to do with the fact that most of the nations of Africa and the Middle East are hideously sexist, homophobic, racist pigs, by modern, civilized standards. The shame of modern liberalism is that it refuses to condemn the contemptible in whatever form or place it appears. One must not, after all, be in danger of being labeled �intolerant.�

I, for one, do not tolerate barbarism, even if whole damned cultures of people disagree with me. But then I�m a liberal, not an idiot.

[Hollywoodaction]

Would it make it any more acceptable in their eyes if someone informed them that he slept with women too?