Multiculturalism

Personally, I think mindless cruelty is just as bad as intentional retaliation.

So mindless ignorance of consequences is okay?

All of those factors were filtered through a little place called "the British Isles".

So are you suggesting civil war or carpet-bagging?

And I'm asking what "more" is. Holding his head under water?

In Message 1109 you said, "Slavery and segregation were not ended in the south by building more schools."To your mind, what were they ended by? And would the same approach be applicable to todays problems (moving people away from backwardness and extremism)?

So you're prepared to force people to assimilate? And sticking with the slavery example, I presume you mean armed force?

I consider myself "usually able bodied" rather than "old" but I always use the ramps at intersections instead of taking the six-inch leap of faith off the curb. The city is routinely putting them in as the old sidewalks are replaced; it can't be that much more expensive. (Another advantage is that they eliminate the need for armour plating to protect the curbs from heavy vehicles taking the corners to sharply.)

Your example says nothing about multiculturalism. Admitting people from different cultures does not imply promoting or even tolerating the practice of those cultures over here.

But what you cited - at least what you quoted from your citation - doesn't promote diversity. It promotes drawing from diverse sources - like drawing water from different wells to mix in one reservoir.

No, it says nothing about preserving the diversity. To use your analogy, it could mean putting the spaghetti and the macaroni and the rotini into the same soup. The individuals can still be distinguished but nothing is being done to promote their diversity.

The question is neither whether the sources of the ingredients were diverse nor whether the soup is now diverse. Your claim is that the US government policy was/is to promote diversity and you haven't shown that. They might have anticipated that the diversity would be preserved in part - or they might have hoped that it wouldn't. After all, a hundred years ago there was immigration from diverse sources but the policy was assimilation.

Jesus wasn't:

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Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

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Talk about relativism: pretending to "worship" somebody you oppose diametrically.