Where, oh where, is the constituency for moderate liberal democracy, the constituency for assimilation? Radicals to my left, saying you should bring your vile customs here; fascists to my right, saying you should keep your vile customs at home. Where are the liberals saying that you can bring the surface features of your culture here–we’ll cover your traditional bread-and-protein dish in cheese and sugar, and your myths and heroes will appear in our comic books–but the rest, you have to leave behind. Your religion will be about as mighty a cultural force as Unitarianism; your deep tribal divisions will mean as much as anti-Irish sentiment means nowadays; you will be another slice of modern liberal democracy with a fancy new paint job.
Where are the liberals who believe in the awesome assimilating power of the West?
That sounds like cultural erasure, my friend.
You wouldn’t want to use your vile White Western Imperialist Colonialist Culture to erase that of proud foreign People of Colour and other Minorities, would you?
In other words, the people now believe their own information-culture war munitions. Those whose goal is to play ideological chicken with Islam and cultures that involve FGM and honor killings, and think Liberalism will win, on purpose, are becoming fewer and farther between.
The actual purposes of both diversity and religious tolerance were not even forgotten, as they weren’t even known in the first place.