Let them eat cake
Carlin, David R. Jr.
Now that I am with child again, I have baby with Down's syndrome. I was urged physical rootedness in these bodies, and been thinking more and more about what to have an...
...Their patron saint is the chap- trouble in Yugoslavia is not too much mul- ation and entertainment, even something lain in Shaw's Saint Joan, who was very ticulturalism but too little...
...position where nobody who really matters think that others would eventually be- How drab life would be if it contained nothcan trump them morally, while allowing come deadly serious about the game she ing but Wall Street, computers, and the them to pull moral rank on everyone else...
...This need for consensus is, or at least should be, the most obvious of The viciousness of the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina is almost impossible to imagine...
...There is mul- history of the United States demonstrates...
...in the world between peasants and well situated as the better-educated and Their patron saint, the patron of all queens...
...of Francois Boucher...
...Unlike the PMs, but very Commonweal 23 April 1993: 9 much like Saint Robespierre, they have ideology of multiculturalism, which pro- tions that will make it possible-better no lightness of touch, no sense of humor...
...man with a remarkable capacity for sinking his teeth into the fashionable wisdom of his age and not letting go...
...The playful multiculturalists (PMs) are ysis, peasants were peasants and aristo- Themselves masters of mainstream culthose who like to utter the rhetoric of crats aristocrats, and never the twain ture, they know how to have fun on weekmulticulturalism while not really believ- should meet...
...It is Millions more are now homeless and in desperate need of aid...
...El a bright, serious, well-intentioned young OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr...
...time trusting that everyone has enough there would be no essential distinction But the GMs, who are not socially so good sense not to carry things to extremes...
...The idea of education, common forms of recreunderstand...
...And you can help -your support of CRS will save lives...
...If he became LET THEM EAT CAKE one of history's great serial killers, it was not because of a sadistic bent in his charA LOVE LETTER TO MULTICULTURALISTS acter...
...diversity based on religion, region, eduwho are PMs that imagine they are GMs...
...or if they do recognize it, occasionally milk a cow while pretending tron saint, the patron of all who pursue ab- it is only to turn it on its head-placing to be a peasant woman...
...I was also told on this earth...
...And of course once we dismantle it, peaceful diversity will have become impossible, for the culturally diverse among us will have no common ground on which to stand...
...it means to be a cocreator of human life that amniocentesis carries a slight risk of As Lent came to a close and we prewith God...
...possible only because the consensus has he repented of his fiery, punitive zeal and This sounds a bit like saying that if only been so powerful...
...Their pa- and the fringe...
...He role not only with Peter, but ultimately with God's Image: Reflections for the New wore a cast for two months and now must God...
...that the distinction Maximilien Robespierre...
...Using this rhetoric puts them in a cow, Marie would have been shocked to excursions into the subcultural fringe...
...If only the approaching a vague common religion eager to have Joan put to death until he Serbs, Croats, and Muslims would accept (what Robert Bellah calls the American actually witnessed the burning, only then our ideology (as you call it), they could "civil religion...
...I decided to continue and taught us, among other things, that nancy have been stressful...
...It would be an understatement Down's or possibly cause a miscarriage so, God dignified our role as cocreators to say that the first six month of this preg- through my curiosity...
...Such assertions are true but meaningless...
...By doing not control...
...She was only playing...
...The diversity has been realizing its horrendous nature...
...Thank God for Mexican Their actual feeling is that a little bit of ting off a few heads (including, alas, restaurants, Cajun music, and Colombian cultural diversity is great fun, at the same Marie's own), the better to guarantee that cocaine...
...Bent playfully under the ends with cultural diversity, making brief ing it...
...leading another character everyone were honest, then we could do tural consensus has made diversity riot to remark, "Must then a Christ perish in away with locks and police officers...
...I already wear a "special shoe" twenty-four hours cocreator is that I must do whatever I can know that loving Brian at times means laya day...
...What I have learned about being a Mother, C.R...
...In addition to to wonder...
...the outcome of this pregnancy is out of that Easter message: I must lay down my While one blood test showed that I had my hands...
...But at the same they are prepared to go all the way with culturalism, we mean cultural diversity time we have had an immense amount of multiculturalism, but only because they accompanied by tolerance...
...So I could choose pared to celebrate Easter, I thought about is a peace in accepting those things we can- to wonder whether or not the baby had God's choice to become human...
...You don't cation, social class, race, ethnicity, age, These people live under the illusion that understand...
...see Patricia Houch Sprinkle, In ly major corrective surgery on his foot...
...But in the last anal- they are not totally disingenuous about this...
...Look at the Serbs and amount of cultural diversity, as the entire a religion...
...Yet this obvious truth innocent women and children-have been traumatized by the horrors of "ethnic cleansing...
...It was because he had a clear head...
...It also means that we must do fears, my desire to control, my questions, not been infected, the nurse told me that whatever we can to ensure a just and good and my uncertainty for the love of my another showed I was at risk for having a world, but that we are limited by our very child...
...To be fair to them, an intermediate type, the pseudo-grave...
...ent-day Marie Antoinettes, who (if I may CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES-USCC mix, or rather churn, metaphors) are G6209 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-3443 milking cows while American culture @ 1-800-SEND-HOPE burns...
...he saw better than others that one who says A must say B; he understood what was enmong the folks who of the orders should be abolished...
...But this groups can live in peace within a single soedition of the terrible simplifiers Burck- proposition is lunacy...
...But we are administering life-saving Robespierres of multiculturalism...
...If you want to see ciety...
...hardt warned us about...
...Gibson, Co...
...It was diagnosed as that my belly gets rubbed and kissed by floor to play and be tackled...
...She stract principles to their logical conclusion, diversity at the heart of things, while pernever intended of course that everyone even when that conclusion is insane, is mitting a degree of uniformity on supershould really be equal...
...claims that the more cultural diversity still, probable-that culturally diverse They are terribly in earnest...
...A week after surgery, he came in my power to ensure that this baby gets ing down the New York Times, laying down with a bright red rash that covered proper nutrition, that I get plenty of rest, down the phone, and lying down on the him from head to toe...
...No, no," I shall be told...
...C 10: 23 April 1993 Commonweal...
...higher-income PMs, do not recognize those who play with fire, is Marie The grave multiculturalists (GMs) are this distinction between the mainstream Antoinette, who, with her friends, would those prepared to go all the way...
...was engaged in, even to the point of cut- New York Times...
...What I am learning is that there causing a miscarriage...
...And diver- political theory, common spirit of business really means...
...the Croats and the Muslims...
...that is, we have to agree on something more than mere tolerance for diversity...
...greater love has no man than this, that a the usual strains of pregnancy, Brian, at So, as much as I am an integral player man lay down his life for his friends" (John twelve months of age, had to undergo fair- in nurturing this life within me, I share the 15:13...
...In fact this strong culreformed his life...
...that tailed by the adoption of a certain theory call themselves multi- aristocracy and royalty should be done of republican freedom and virtue...
...To complete the typology, let us note ticulturalism for you, pressed down and This nation has had a plentiful supply of the intermediate variety: the pseudo-GMs, running over...
...I was urged physical rootedness in these bodies, and been thinking more and more about what to have an amniocentesis...
...or if merely endurable but notably beneficial torment in every age to save those that have wishes were horses, then beggars would ride...
...is being ignored today in America...
...For a society to live in peace with itself, for its members to be able to cooperate with one another in a productive fashion, its agreements have to be of primary importance, while its disagreements are of only secondary importance...
...Poor Marie...
...Yet if we heed the siren call of the radAll three varieties have adopted the The question is, how do we create condi- ical multiculturalists and decide to push for cultural diversity on a whole-hog basis, we'll have to dismantle this broad cultural consensus...
...Right now, CRS is operating throughout the Balkan states being ignored too by a lot of people who -including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Macedonia - providing emergency food, should know better, including many presblankets, medicine and more...
...in many respects...
...And these agreements have to be of a more positive content than a mere agreement to disagree...
...Mere diversi- consensus: common language, common have no clear idea what "going all the way" ty all by itself isn't the point...
...being ignored not only by the GMs, those Catholic Relief Services can't stop the fighting...
...Now this new Fifth Disease, which can cause a miscar- little Brian, but that after a certain point, child has deepened my appreciation for riage if a pregnant woman is exposed...
...They are a new American society has, the better...
...no imagination...
...Robespierre was ficial matters...
...Peasants The PMs are at heart monoculturalists three varieties, the and shepherds were cute and lovable, to who get great pleasure out of talking the playful, the grave, and be sure, at least when seen through the eyes multiculturalist game...
...culturalists, there are away with...
...Since fighting began in 1991, hundreds of thousands of people -many of them sociological truths...
...whereupon live in peace together...
...When we talk about multi- and a few other factors...
...it is assistance to the victims of war...
...We may confidently predict sity accompanied by intolerance is exactly enterprise, common work ethic, common that they will recoil in horror once they the opposite of what we have in mind...
...If for the PMs mul- cultural diversity run rampant, look at the There is room in America for a certain ticulturalism is a game, for the GMs it is former Yugoslavia...
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