[Mel] So, how's Cajun non-white? Just curious... [Arlo] I think I put "French" in the list too, just to stand as cultures different from the one Platt is elevating to Moral Supremacy (Platt does not belong to Cajun culture). And I'm using the terms very broadly (and in a classic not postmodern sense), as one could argue there is no homogeneous "French" culture (or Lakota, or Inuit, or Cajun), or indeed that there is no such thing as a homogeneous culture at all. These demarcations were only offered as possible "cultures" contrasting Platt's that I'd be curious to know in which ways he finds any of them morally superior to his own. "Cajuns" fall into what I said were "whites within our walls that choose to live differently than Platt's chose lifestyle", or "miscreants we can exclude from Platt's view of what constitutes the Absolute Morally Supreme Culture (think "Leave It To Beaver).
In other words, I am rhetorically accepting Platt's call to end "multiculturalism" and judge the world's cultures on the basis of moral superiority. I know the ways he thinks his own is morally superior, I would like to know in what ways he find others morally superior to his own. Because of course it would be quite unusual if Platt's "culture" (call it The Culture of The Beav) was morally superior to all others in every single conceivable way... wouldn't it? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
