This is the question that catholic students pose to their teachers. It can be rephrased as the central probem with moral relativism:
If we must respect all other cultures and hold them equal, should we respect and hold equal a culture that holds our values of multiculturalism and racial/gender equality in violent contempt?
In this article Cathy Young examines the conflict between the west-hating fringe of feminism and multiculturalism, and how it is at odds with itself over that very question.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at October 20, 2001 01:51 PM | Technorati inbound links