Mr. Solway is not talking about the decline of the West but the effects of two things that are closely related: Paulo Friere’s Marxist Critical Pedagogy and Political Correctness.
What they have in common is that they are excuse machines for the failures of the traditionally disenfranchised. In other words, it is not a decline of Western values but an attack on those values from within by many who cannot share in the spotlight. Not everyone can be a Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant.
Political Correctness stipulates that those players on the bench never be referred to as bench players but instead unlucky, exploited and oppressed stars. The view, values and perception of Bryant and Jordan haven’t declined but been subverted and circumvented by losers.
The West is alive and healthy because reality loves a winner. But Great Britain announced that this year’s immigration is a record high 250,000 people and no society can survive an onslaught of bench players, no matter how impolite it is to portray them as such.
They say: “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” I say: “Spare the feelings, spoil the civilization.” People and cultures that are losers are well aware of it and this nonsense about diversity and multiculturalism is really about non-performance, jealousy and spreading credit where no credit is due masked as fighting racism and the hangover of colonialism.
How much more patronizing and revealing can Obama be than to credit Islam with the Italian awakening of culture and invite Muslims into orbit to share in their “legacy.” What a joke.
