The two most hated words among the Left’s Wokesters and SJWs are assimilation and tolerance. Come here and be Americans and not just your nationality in a different place.
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
“…Of course, he’s right. Upon hearing this, the dumbest, and most obnoxious, panelist then compares assimilation to ‘erasure.’
Someone might explain to her that having purple hair and blaming everything on “white supremacy” has about as much to do with her ancestral roots as McDonald’s or Marxism.
…Even within these subgroups there are often deep differences. It’s just another reminder of why the identitarianism of “white” and “black” is so incredibly stupid and destructive.
But American life offers space to honor all those ethnic and religious heritages, as anyone who lives here knows, while also demanding newcomers embrace ones that make a diverse culture work. Despite all our sloganeering about “diversity” making us stronger — and it certainly enhances our personal and cultural lives — what makes us “stronger” is the ability to convince disparate groups of people with disparate traditions to adopt a set of societal norms and ethos. This means sharing a broad, unifying philosophy and a common understanding about civic life: a respect for the law and order and the foundational liberal ideas of rights, governance, and liberty; a common language; a belief in a meritocratic society; and the ability to live and let live by minding your own business. The United States, notwithstanding all its obvious injustices and sins, does this better than any place in the world.
-David Harsarnyi (“Get Married. Have Kids. Stay Together. Mind Your Own Business.”)
Celebrate your past ethnicity but don’t demand that everyone put your lifestyle and outlook above their own. That’s the REAL “safe space” that the Left demands but does not practice itself.
Ditto their idea of “inclusive” – you MUST be and do what we tell you to be “included” and “tolerated.
1984 all the way down. And they are dragging America down with their ideology. THEY are the true Oppressors – of the traditional American definition of tolerance (“I don’t like what you are doing, but just stay out of my face, and I’ll do the same for you”) as they just are unable to stay in their own lane. Instead, they want to take everyone else’s lane away from them.
Instead, they are hellbent on Balkanizing the US – and we’ve seen what happens when Societies fracture: a hot civil war. They haven’t figured out that when you push patient people past their breaking points, they will explode with a fury that knows no bounds, no manners, and no tolerance for anyone, not them (yes, Wokesters, that’s a warning that many others are also saying out loud).
People, after a point, will refuse to have Cloward-Piven foisted upon them.
