And of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of empty global position, treats each local culture the way the colonizer treats colonized people—as ‘natives’ whose mores are to be carefully studied and ‘respected’. That is to say, the relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global capitalist self-colonization is exactly the same as the relationship between Western cultural imperialism and multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State metropole, multiculturalism involves patronizing Eurocentrist distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one’s own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‘racism with a distance’—it ‘respects’ the Other’s identity, conceiving the Other as a self-enclosed ‘authentic’ community towards which he, the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his privileged universal position. Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he doesn’t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own culture), but nonetheless retains this position as; the privileged empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate (and depreciate) properly other particular cultures—the multiculturalist respect for the Other’s specificity is the very form of asserting one’s own superiority.
- Slavoj Zizek, "Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism"
Only Democrats don't critique other cultures. They only oikophobically criticize their own using the tools of Critical Theory. They thereby sacrifice their "universalist" moral position to group cohesiveness, to not offending members of other cultures. It's their "unwritten rule", one that sustains the group. They only speak "affirmatively" (never critically) of non-white cultures. It's "affirmative action" for non-Western, non-white groups. Like #MeToo, you must ALWAYS believe (and never question) the women, or you're not part of the #MeToo Movement.
And why does the Capitalist Establishment, Democratic AND Republican, embrace Multi-Culturalism? Cheap COMMODIFIED Labour. And a great weapon with which to impose "Western Values" like "Muh, Democracy Multi-culturalism!" on the World.... It's "Good for the Capitalist Imperium" and justifying a Jus Abutendi commodification of Labour!
