Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt Quotes

“The political class has adopted inclusiveness and diversity as a political instrument, as a means of controlling a society it has set about reshaping. The “diversity machine” is a mechanism of state power that operates without anyone being permitted to notice its coercive nature. Therapeutic regimes are packaged in a way that disguises their resort to force; both the Left and establishment Right in the United States, which misrepresent political life, have helped to make this concealment possible.”
― Paul Edward Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy

“The question that poses itself is exactly what one
means by “democracy.” Is it to be identified with self-conscious peoples ruling themselves, or does it entail the establishment and maintenance of “civic
culture” by experts with “progressive” social views? Although these two opposed understandings have coexisted in the same societies, they are fundamentally incompatible.”
― Paul Edward Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy