5. OVERVIEW
Post-‐9/11
consensus
around
civilizational
threat
legitimizes
racism
(aka
‘commonsense’)
‘Excessive
western
tolerance’,
‘state
doctrine
of
multiculturalism’,
etc.
has
led
to
societal
‘discohesion’,
threat
to
‘personal
security’
Saturday, 1 June 13
6. OVERVIEW
Post-‐9/11
consensus
around
civilizational
threat
legitimizes
racism
(aka
‘commonsense’)
‘Excessive
western
tolerance’,
‘state
doctrine
of
multiculturalism’,
etc.
has
led
to
societal
‘discohesion’,
threat
to
‘personal
security’
The
‘crisis
of
multiculturalism’
is
the
contemporary
articulation
of
racism
in
a
‘postracial’
age.
Saturday, 1 June 13
8. TOO DIVERSE: THE REAL PROBLEM
WITH MULTICULTURALISM
Entropa
Installation:
The
Netherlands
is
seen
as
series
of
minarets
submerged
by
a
flood
Saturday, 1 June 13
9. TOO DIVERSE: THE REAL PROBLEM
WITH MULTICULTURALISM
“Nas @43 where have
I mentioned the
word ‘genetics’ or
the word ‘race’?
My problem is with
Somali culture not
Somali genes.”
CAULDRON —
ON 21ST AUGUST, 2009 AT
11:41 AM
WWW.PICKLEDPOLITICS.CO
Entropa
Installation:
The
Netherlands
is
seen
as
series
of
minarets
submerged
by
a
flood
Saturday, 1 June 13
11. GOOD & BAD DIVERSITY
“In
the
European
shift
to
the
privatization
of
race,
the
shifting
border
between
good
diversity,
requiring
celebration
and
cultivation,
and
bad
diversity,
diverse
matter
recognized
as
of
out
place,
is
central
to
understanding
a
particularly
influential
inflection
of
antiracialism.
How
can
there
be
racism
when
the
official
commitment
to
diversity
is
so
manifest,
and
so
mediated?”
The
Crises
of
Multiculturalism
(Lentin
and
Titley)
Saturday, 1 June 13
13. ‘Europeans
know
more
about
Arabic
calligraphy
and
kente
cloth
because
they
know
less
about
Montaigne
and
Goethe.
If
the
spread
of
Pakistani
cuisine
is
the
single
greatest
improvement
in
British
public
life
over
the
past
half-‐century,
it
is
also
worth
noting
that
the
bombs
used
for
the
failed
London
transport
attacks
of
July
21,
2005,
were
made
from
a
mix
of
hydrogen
peroxide
and
chapatti
flour.
Immigration
is
not
enhancing
or
validating
European
culture;
it
is
supplanting
it’
Christopher
Caldwell
2009:
17
THE DANGERS OF CHAPATI
FLOUR
Saturday, 1 June 13
15. CULTURALIZED POLITICS
“The
communication
lecturer,
who
was
there,
blurted
out
that
infamous
remark:
‘When
I
go
to
Morocco
and
I
go
into
a
Mosque,
I
take
off
my
shoes,
so
you
can
take
off
your
veil!’.
I
am
so
used
to
hearing
this
remark
that
I
quickly
respond,
‘Good
for
you,
but
excuse
me,
I
am
French,
I
have
my
rights
and
you
cannot
deny
them.”
FATIMA
(20)
IN
LES
FILLES
VOILÉES
PARLENT
Saturday, 1 June 13
17. CULTURAL SOLUTIONS TO
CULTURAL PROBLEMS
The
‘crisis
of
multiculturalism’
rhetoric
is
itself
mired
in
culturalism.
Saturday, 1 June 13
18. CULTURAL SOLUTIONS TO
CULTURAL PROBLEMS
The
‘crisis
of
multiculturalism’
rhetoric
is
itself
mired
in
culturalism.
The
problem
is
not
with
culture
per
se
but
with
its
excess,
always
to
be
only
found
in
an-‐Other’s
culture.
Saturday, 1 June 13
19. CULTURAL SOLUTIONS TO
CULTURAL PROBLEMS
The
‘crisis
of
multiculturalism’
rhetoric
is
itself
mired
in
culturalism.
The
problem
is
not
with
culture
per
se
but
with
its
excess,
always
to
be
only
found
in
an-‐Other’s
culture.
Therefore,
the
call
is
for
more
of
‘our’
culture.
Saturday, 1 June 13
22. THE BADGE OF ANTIRACISM
“As
African
LGBTI
Human
Rights
Defenders,
we
are
working
toward
the
recognition
of
our
rights
by
our
governments
in
Africa.
We
do
not
appreciate
or
accept
the
efforts
of
Western-‐based
individuals
or
organisations
who
try
to
make
our
work
for
liberation
into
an
ego-‐
boosting
publicity
campaign
for
themselves.
We
condemn
Peter
Tatchell
and
Outrage!
for
their
irresponsible
journalism
and
a
deplorable
lack
of
respect
for
the
very
people
they
claim
they
are
defending.”
Signed
by
African
LGBTI
Human
Rights
Defenders,
January
2007
Saturday, 1 June 13
25. POSTRACIAL AGENDAS
Politically,
the
concept
of
culture
is
not
dissociable
from
that
of
race.
Both
culturalization
and
racialization
are
imbricated
in
the
disciplining
of
non-‐normative
bodies
by
the
state
and
the
market.
Saturday, 1 June 13
26. POSTRACIAL AGENDAS
Politically,
the
concept
of
culture
is
not
dissociable
from
that
of
race.
Both
culturalization
and
racialization
are
imbricated
in
the
disciplining
of
non-‐normative
bodies
by
the
state
and
the
market.
The
culturalization
of
politics
is
consistent
with
the
wholesale
acceptance
of
postracialism.
Saturday, 1 June 13
28. CONCLUSION
“Another
thing
Breivik
shares
with
the
multicultural
lobby
is
a
powerful
sense
of
cultural
paranoia.
He
believes
“my
culture”
is
under
siege.
Only
where
mainstream
multiculturalists
tend
to
argue
that
minority
cultures
such
as
the
Islamic
one
are
threatened
by
tidal
waves
of
Islamophobia
and
general
public
ignorance,
Breivik
says
the
majority
culture
–
the
white
Christian
identity
–
is
threatened
by
the
“Islamic
colonisation”
of
Europe
and
also
by
general
public
ignorance
(he
says
ordinary
people
have
been
led
astray
by
the
media).
These
are
just
different
versions
of
the
same
sense
of
cultural
panic
that
is
fostered
by
the
multicultural
outlook.”
Brendan
O’Neill
,
The
Telegraph
Saturday, 1 June 13
