The descriptors in the European press perfectly illustrate that fear of being called racist trumps identifying the source of the problem. "Asians" is most commonly used. And when thousands regularly riot with anti-Semitic and jihadist slogans in France they are "youths."
When did all these Chinese, Japanese, and Korean kids submit to Allah? And how do they always manage to remain concealed in the news photos?
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, “How interesting, how exciting.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)
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