Must read!-----Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From? - Minding The Campus

Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From? - Minding The Campus
"When I first took up my teaching post in 1968, a bright undergraduate said to me, “North American culture is the most corrupt in the world.” 
...But the idea of cultural relativism did not remain static. 
Rather, it was taken up and expanded to mean moral relativism, in which someone from one culture cannot make a valid moral judgment about someone or a culture with a different morality. 
In 1946, the American Anthropological Association went so far as to reject the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the grounds that it reflected Western values and was thus ethnocentric. 
...Thus, in order to advance partisan interests, feminist and minority activists have distorted facts of history and sociology to portray America as a wicked and evil country. 
At the same time, educationalists have striven to divide Americans according to sex, race, sexual preference, and ethnicity, while canceling the rights of members of the American majority. 
To quote Beckeld again,

The historical development of oikophobia [hatred of one’s own society] has had a debilitating effect on many aspects of our society, on its culture, politics, and military. 
It is a nation so fixated by internal squabbles that it is no longer capable of effectively projecting outward, unified force.
Clearly, Russian and Chinese conspiracies are not needed to destroy America; partisan activists, educators, and the media are doing their best to argue that America should be destroyed and thus destroy it themselves."

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