by Prof. Ricardo Duchesne
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| Canadians who fought in WWII: Liberals or Fascists? |
My books have been the beneficiary of excellent reviews.
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011) was reviewed extensively in various languages, eight of which were full review essays published in both
standard academic journals and
conservative/dissident right journals.
Canada in Decay
has received two review essays thus far. I expected this book to be
attacked because it is the only book written by an academic who
questions the misleading ideology that all Western nations must be
diversified if they are to live up to their liberal-democratic
principles. I am not surprised, therefore, by the extremely unfair, and
carelessly constructed,
review penned by Matt McManus.
But this does not mean I will let this review go unanswered. McManus's
review is a reputational attack aimed at suppressing my academic freedom
by identifying me, without any attention to the arguments and facts of
Canada in Decay, as a "white supremacist".
The views McManus expresses against me are standard fare in our
universities, where no open debate is allowed on the most crucial
question of our times: in what ways do Europeans stand to benefit
economically and culturally from the continuous arrival of millions of
immigrants? Everyone, and it starts in our primary schools, is mandated
to believe that “diversity is our greatest strength” and that any form
of European ethnic identity is inherently illiberal.
What surprises me about academics with PhDs, who should know better, is
how conceptually inept they show themselves to be whenever they debate
the relationship between the imposition of diversity and the nature and
history of Western culture. They are always caught up in a bind created
by their own contradictory claim that modern Western liberalism has been
deeply marred by racist assumptions and practices, while in the same
vein insisting that their efforts to diversify the West are conterminous
with the ideals of Western liberalism. Academics take it as a given
that opposition to diversity is inherently illiberal and racist. They
can’t understand, accordingly, how someone can possibly attack immigrant
multiculturalism, as I do, in the name of liberal values, in full
agreement with the “critical thinking” universities are supposed to
cherish, and in admiration of the ideals of Enlightenment thinkers.
McManus is a Cultural Marxist
