I think Dennis Prager nails the answer to his own question (reformatted, emphasis mine):
…That is why the Left loathes Israel. If the Left actually cared about human rights, women’s rights, gay rights, or freedom of speech, religion, and the press, it would be wildly pro-Israel. But Israel, in the Left’s view, is white, European, and colonialist; in other words, Western. And the Palestinians are non-Western.
So, then, the Big Question is, Why? Why is the Left hostile to Western civilization? After decades of considering this question, the answer, I have concluded, is: standards. The Left hates standards – moral standards, artistic standards, cultural standards. The West is built on all three, and has excelled in all three.
And I would also add the Judeo-Christian religious tradition and the values espoused therein – the base of Western Civilization also contains (used to contain?) and is built on top of it. Take it away and what is left? Not a whole lot.
Why does the Left hate standards? The Left hates standards because when there are standards, there is judgment. And Leftists don’t want to be judged.
Think that’s wrong? In the goverenmental sphere, just ask yourself one question: WHY is a government program never evaluated for efficiency and effectiveness? Why isn’t a program ever stopped when it becomes too expensive and doesn’t meet its mission goals? Why, for example, do we pour billions of $$ into Head Start when the government’s own study says it doesn’t work as intended?
Thus Michelangelo is no better than any contemporary artist, and Rembrandt is no greater than any non-Western artist. So, too, street graffiti, which are essentially the defacing of public and private property — and thus serve to undermine civilization — are “art.”
Melody-free, harmony-free, atonal sounds are just as good as Beethoven’s music. And Western classical music is no better than the music of any non-Western civilization.
Guatemalan poets are every bit as worthy of study as Shakespeare. When the Nobel Prize–winning American novelist Saul Bellow was quoted as saying, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?” all hell broke loose on the cultural Left. Bellow had implied that the greatest writers of fiction were Western.
Why such antagonism? Because if some art is really better than other art, your art may be judged inferior. The narcissism of left-wing thought does not allow for anyone to be better than you artistically or in any other way. Therefore, all art and artists must be equal.
In the moral realm, the same rejection of standards exists. Thus, the Left loathed Ronald Reagan for labeling the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” That would mean that America was morally superior to the Soviet Union. And such a judgment was unacceptable. The whole left-wing moral vocabulary is a rejection of Western moral standards: “tolerance,” “inclusion,” “anti-discrimination” (by definition, standards discriminate), “non-judgmental,” and even “income inequality,” which deems some people’s work more valuable than that of others.
And now you know where this stupid idea of inequality comes from – NO one can be better than anyone else especially in the renumeration of the type of work that is done – WHY, they scream, is a CEO all that much better than the worker on floor?
And if the end game is to end inequality, the only way that can happen is to remove the freedom from society that allows those that can, do.
Every civilization had slavery. But only thanks to Judeo-Christian civilization was slavery abolished there and eventually elsewhere. Nevertheless, to speak about any moral superiority of Western or Judeo-Christian civilization is completely unacceptable thanks to the Left’s stranglehold on education and most media.
…And finally, we come to the Left’s loathing of the religions of Western civilization — the Judeo-Christian religions, with their clear standards of right and wrong. Bible-based religions affirm a morally judging God. For the Left, that is anathema. For the Left, the only judging allowed is Leftist judging of others. No one judges the Left. Neither man nor God.
So if you wonder, like me, why it seems like what used to be good is now bad, what used to be judged to be bad is exalted, and those of us that try to make sense of it all are castigated for being judgemental, well, now you have the answer.
Maybe the answer is to go all Medieval on them like Crowder did on that self-proclaimed “fat chick” Cora Segal – she who decided that ONLY she could judge everyone else (and must have made her parent oh so proud – think so, Rachel Hahn?) instead of letting them set the agenda.
