A kinder, gentler child sacrifice.
What’s not to like about multiculturalism? After all, isn’t diversity our strength? Don’t cultural influences from around the world add spice and flavor to the bland, Eurocentric West, which some people even say has no culture of its own? Take food, for example; as everyone always points out when this topic comes up, different cultures bring a smorgasbord of vibrant cuisines to the West! Also rape gangs, no-go zones, and machete attacks, but that’s a small price to pay for a corner kebab stand.
Many years ago, when I was a musician paying no attention to politics, nothing excited and inspired me more than the mix of multicultural influences that rockers like Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne incorporated into pop music. My favorite section in record stores was labeled simply “world music,” where I immersed myself in exotic artists like South Africa’s Johnny Clegg and Savuka, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, avant-garde Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the drummers of Brazil’s Olodum, all of whom found crossover success in America and Europe. That’s all the word “multiculturalism” meant to me.
I didn’t learn until many years later that multiculturalism also referred to a subversive movement, born of political correctness, that swept through academia, where so many stupid and destructive ideas are born and nurtured, and from there out into the culture at large. Multiculturalism takes the relativistic position that all cultural expressions are equally valid, that all cultures should be equally celebrated rather than judged – except for Western civilization, which is viewed as the fount of all oppression, exploitation, and genocidal violence in world history. In fact, as Keith Windschuttle wrote in The New Criterion, multiculturalism is “entirely a negation of Western culture and values.” Its raison d’etre is not to promote tolerance and diversity but to undermine the West.
Multiculturalism has spawned a couple of generations of progressive Americans who uncritically revere any and all non-white cultures past and present, but reject their own Western legacy as uniquely shameful and evil. Thus they cannot bring themselves, for example, to condemn Middle Eastern jihadists for any number of terrorist atrocities from 9/11 through the October 7 attacks, but also feel compelled to tear down statues of Western icons of liberty like George Washington and Winston Churchill for their connections to past sins of slavery and imperialism. These self-righteous revolutionaries would happily have you jailed for misgendering someone but refuse to denounce such barbaric practices of ancient Central American cultures as human sacrifice.
And that brings me to a perfect recent example: the case of Emily Pool, an 11-year veteran history teacher at a Colorado high school who posted a TikTok video in which she assures viewers that the child sacrifices carried out by the ancient Incan civilization were “voluntary” and “kind” because the victims were drugged first. Oh, that’s cool, then.
According to her LinkedIn page, the nose ring-wearing Pool is “talented in successfully differentiating learning styles in for [sic] socially, economically, and racially diverse classrooms.” She also apparently has a talent for whitewashing the savagery of ancient nonwhite cultures. In her video, she defends the Incan practice of child sacrifice by noting that “most other civilizations in history” practiced human sacrifice too. This isn’t the moral defense she seems to think it is. She also neglects to mention that the civilization that ended this savagery was that of Christian Europe.
Pool adds that being appalled by the concept of human sacrifice is “indicative” of a “quite white education” — meaning, you are focused on the negatives of ancient nonwhite societies, such as the routine murder of children to placate the gods, and not the “wonders [the Inca] accomplished,” like impressive temples and roads. In her mind, a “white education” teaches one to make moral judgments, and that runs against the grain of multiculturalism. The only moral judgment allowed when you view everything through the Marxist paradigm of oppressor-versus-oppressed is to condemn the oppressor – i.e., the West. --->READ MORE HERE
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