Saturday, July 08, 2006

Burying multiculturalism / Mercator Net, 6 July 2006

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Seamus Grimes
"Experience around the world shows that building societies upon post-modern tolerance instead of old-fashioned respect just doesn't work. To be tolerant of others is admirable, but in our “post-virtue” era tolerance has become an end in itself. Ever since the ideals of our Judeao-Christian heritage were first enunciated we have repeatedly fallen short in how we have treated the “other”. We have compounded this failure more recently by re-interpreting those ideals in ways which make it difficult for many to fully appreciate our shared humanity."