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Chapter 1: The Stage is Set

unpleasant ideas. Multiculturalists discourage the use of
certain ?trigger words,” sometimes called ?negative
feeling words,” that might offend or make someone or
a group feel uncomfortable. The measure which society
overcomes and corrects traditional social impediments
is the new measure of liberalism in a globalized society.
Multiculturalists believe that the government
should pass equality laws to achieve social justice.
Some groups are targeted by a crime regardless of their
innocence or guilt, and for every privileged group, there
is an unprivileged group. Multiculturalists wail against
the uneven distribution of wealth but suppress any
reference to communism because people in western
capitalistic societies have been programmed to accept
the profit motive over communism.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental
Rights is a Vienna-based agency of the European Union
inaugurated on March 1, 2007. The FRA is designed to
ensure that all EU legislation and the resulting provi-
sions within the individual Member States are in line
with the human rights and freedoms guaranteed in
Europe. The FRA acts as a monitoring agency, to help
promote the concept of multiculturalism. The FRA
monitors what it considers hate crimes and states that
violence and offenses motivated by racism, xenophobia,
religious intolerance, or by bias against a person’s
disability, sexual orientation or gender identity are all
examples of hate crimes. The FRA claims that such
crimes strike at the heart of the European Union’s
commitment to multiculturalism.
The problem with the term racism is that it is a
loaded term implying something more than what is
objectively there. The term racist comes loaded with

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