Myths Believed by The Left

Yesterday, I wrote about the myth believed by people on the right. Now, its the leftists turns!

The happy-innocent-natives

I already wrote a separate article about this.

Everything is the mistakes of the West!

The left revered so many intellectuals. Some are true intellectuals. Some are ... just say their work is actually a form of racism. For example are Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Frantz Fanon and other writer who follow their lead.

Chomsky, from wikipedia

There is a pattern in their writing: The West is always wrong! Every problem in the world is the West's fault! You can reduce your problem by kicking out the West from your country, by attacking their interest everywhere you can find them! Chomsky for example, hates the West so passionately, so he defended Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge since the west hates them! To their credit, some intellectuals from the left like Brad Delong and Russil Wvong see this and declare that Chomsky is toxic. Unfortunately, most  people from the left still believe in this myth. That means those  leftists are racist. Plain and simple.

What? You disagree with that? Of course you disagree so many people think racism means when any white man has prejudice against others, but never thought the opposite could be true too. This is due to colonialism and imperialism practiced by the West until mid 20th century. At that time, due to its power, it was the West who COULD practice racism, but in today's world when the West is retreating, when other re-assert themselves, they start to practice their own version of racism against the West.

In essence: the practice of white man exploitation of the natives during the colonialism is racist. On the same time, the idea that white man COULD only exploit, so can't govern justly, so they have to be attacked ANYWHERE is also racist!

Israel is always wrong!
Folks, the identity of a "Palestinian" was created only recently. Before that, we only have "Arabs" or "Libanese" or "Jordanese" or anything like that. Even Yasser Arafat is an Egyptian for heaven's sake! Here is another facts that the Israel's haters doesn't know:

1.  Paradox of the Fisks. The most criticized state in the world is the most free state NOT the worst state. Everyone has access to what happens in Israel and USA, none has access to what happens in North Korea.
2.  There are thousand "Palestinians" who decide to live INSIDE Israel. What happen to them? They become Israeli citizens. They have the right to become members of parliament and cabinet, and ALL other kind of rights. 
3.  Thousands of Jews live in other Arabic countries during the foundation of Israel. They were harassed, and kicked out of those countries. 
4.  Oh yeah, their governments also suggested the Arabs in Israel to get out of there before they invaded and conquered Israel, so they can get MORE LANDS after the conquest. Tough luck, the Israel beat the invasion. Until now they are still whining that Israel "oppressed" them ... yeah right.
5.  In which country a Moslem can criticize their government without fear of death or arrest? Yup, only in Israel!
6. In which country you can have different religions with the elites without discrimination? Once again, only in Israel!

I can go on, but of course none of that matters for most people on the left. They only saw: 
Palestinian -> weak, Arabic 
vs
Israel -> strong, Western
Since they are western-hating racist, most of them think the only cool thing is to hate Israel with passion.

Capitalism is wrong! We hate economic growth!
The Left loves to point out the misery brought by economic growth and capitalism. They hate economic growth totally! Breaking news for you guys, economic growth is not a cure-all, BUT the absence of economic growth is a kill-all. Just ask the Zimbabwean. Or Indonesia during Soekarno time. Or any other country who insists not to have economic growth. What, you dislike that? Grow up and accept that pure socialism kills, just like pure capitalism!

The worst peace is better than war -> Military is wrong!

I already wrote another article about this.

Nuclear is wrong! 

This myth is started by the greens, and supported by the left. Here is some facts:
1) Nuclear Power Plant produce almost no greenhouse gases. I thought you care about global warming?
2) The production of solar cell and battery for any "green power", creates many extremely toxic chemicals waste. Wind turbines could kill migrating birds. Geothermal power plant produced sulfur and many other nasty greenhouse gases that makes CO² looks as harmless as a kitty. In essence, they are not as environmental friendly as the green tell us.
3) All nuclear power plant that experienced disaster were old reactors with old safety equipments and procedures. New reactors are far safer than them.

So, if you really care about the environment and global warming, start supporting nuclear energy!

Multiculturalism

A 2002 cartoon from Cox & Forkum, mocking both the left and the right

Multiculturalism is the idea that all culture is equal, and nobody has the right to judge any culture The idea behind it is a noble one. To make sure everyone is equal, to foster tolerance, to fight racism, etc. But in practice, multiculturalism from the beginning is a flawed concept.

Let's begin with the fact that multiculturalism tolerates intolerance. Yup, they saw no wrong in any non-tolerant culture, because "they are different" and "they have their own values." Yup, with this logic, they basically said it is okay to practice barbarism, like Sati, the burning of the widows in India. According to multiculturalism "Let them burn their widows, it is their custom. They have their own value." Holy hell ...

Some multiculturalist even goes further. They try to "preserve" all cultures, they think that culture is something static, not dynamic. This is is so wrong in so many levels.

First, who has the legitimacy to decide what people has what culture? Do they ALWAYS have that legitimacy?

Second, culture IS DYNAMIC. Those multiculturalist forget that 10.000 years ago, everyone was a hunter-gatherer. Most of us tossed that hunter-gatherer culture, started the agricultural one, evolved into industrial societies, and now started an informatics one. So does one of the biggest part of our culture: religion. Everyone started with animism, but now they are the minorities.

So please, spare your preaching how multiculturalism will foster world peace. It is not. It can be used to foster discrimination, violence, and other nasty things.