The Mutually Reinforcing Problems of Relativism and Racism

Amid a hailstorm of cries emerging from the academic left, urging people not to "be bigots" and "appreciate the value of other cultures", ethnic and racial prejudice continue to plague businesses, educational facilities, and cultural relations.

Affirmative action, the policy of hiring on the basis of skin color, "minority" quotas on college admissions, and a nihilistic pop-culture which brazenly parades itself as "black" continue to encourage an individual's reliance upon the aspects of his genome identifying him with a particular ethnic pressure group rather than his personal merits and capacities for advancement in his academic or career standing.

At a superficial glance, it would seem that the "liberal" academicians would condemn such treatments as bigoted or intolerant toward those who are discriminated against. But they maintain not merely a contemptuous silence in regard to the victims of job profiling and violent slurring from the slums, but rather emerge as the prime advocates of such practices! This is because the attitudinal foundations of the men masquerading as champions of "civil liberties" are closer to those of an Adolf Hitler than of a Martin Luther King.

Today's academia is afflicted with the ideology of ethical and metaphysical relativism, which declares that there exists no objective standard for categorizing facts and evaluating values, that in fact "anything goes", be it arbitrary, self-destructive, or even coercive.

According to relativism, no logical validation is required for the actions of a particular entity, and when a rational and an irrational deed are compared, all evidence for the rationality of the former is discarded. As long as something "works" for a particular entity (and the definition of "works" is whatever the entity views it to be), no individual is permitted to raise a squeak against it.