Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Guilt by Paul Edward Gottfried
Toward a Secular Theocracy
This work argues that in late-modern Western democracies, a quasi-religious ethic of guilt and therapeutic politics elevates multiculturalism into a state ideology, empowering bureaucracies and courts to manage society through anti-discrimination regimes and speech controls. It contends that this moral framework delegitimizes historical majority cultures, rewards victimhood narratives, and narrows permissible debate by branding dissent as intolerance. The result is an expansive administrative state, a conformist public culture, and a redefined citizenship grounded more in managed identities than shared traditions.
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- 2002
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