The Fight Back Against Leftist Cultural Relativism, By James Reed

This is a truth that's been simmering for decades: the shift from "ethnocentric" to "racist" isn't linguistic evolution, it's ideological escalation. Both terms serve the same purpose: to shame anyone daring to notice that not all cultures are equal. The Left's gospel of cultural relativism insists every society is just "different," never better or worse. Reality, however, begs to differ. And finally, people are pushing back.

Cultural relativism sounds noble, live and let live, respect diversity. But in practice, it's a one-way street. Western achievements are dissected for flaws; non-Western failures are excused as "contextual." Some recall being taught that a primitive tribe's stasis was equal to Western dynamism. Equal? One group invented antibiotics; the other still dies of infections at 30. Equality is a feel-good lie.

The data dismantles the myth. In 2024, the top 10 countries by Human Development Index (HDI), measuring life expectancy, education, and income, are all Western or Western-influenced: Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong (SAR), Australia, Iceland, Sweden, Singapore, Netherlands. The bottom 10? Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali, Burundi, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone. Coincidence? Hardly. Freedom House's 2025 report shows 84% of "free" countries are in Europe or the Americas; 70% of "not free" ones are in Africa, the Middle East, or Asia.

Migration patterns are the ultimate referendum. In 2023, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 2.5 million encounters at the southern border, mostly from Latin America, not Europeans fleeing to Venezuela. The UN's 2024 migration report: 281 million international migrants, with 70% heading to high-income (read: Western or Westernised) countries. No one risks drowning in the Mediterranean to reach Libya. No one climbs razor-wire fences to enter Somalia.

Why do elites peddle this nonsense? According to P.J. O'Rourke: liberalism is the philosophy of spoiled children. There's truth here. Post-1970, the West's revolutionary pace slowed. No man on Mars. No fusion power. Just iPhones and streaming. The nepo-Left, trust-fund radicals who never built anything, cope by trashing the system that bankrolls their TED Talks.

They romanticise dysfunction. Female genital mutilation? Cultural tradition. Honour killings? Misunderstood passion. Meanwhile, a Danish farmer's punctuality is "white supremacy." The EU's 2024 "diversity" campaign urged mixed-race families while birth rates collapse; Sweden's fertility rate hit 1.45 in 2024, below replacement. Elites demand natives shrink while importing millions from cultures that outbreed them 3-to-1.

The dam is cracking. In the U.S., Trump's 2024 landslide (306 electoral votes) wasn't just economic, it was cultural. Voters rejected open borders and "DEI" mandates. Texas bused 100,000+ migrants to sanctuary cities in 2024; crime spikes followed. Chicago's mayor begged for federal help after 40,000 arrivals strained shelters. Reality bites.

Europe's revolt is louder. Italy's Giorgia Meloni cut illegal crossings 60% in 2024 by intercepting boats. Hungary's Viktor Orbán built a border fence; illegal entries fell 99% since 2015. France's National Rally won 33% in 2024 elections, its highest ever. Even Sweden, multiculturalism's poster child, deported 20,000 failed asylum seekers in 2024 after gang violence soared.

X is the new town square. In 2025, #CulturalPreservation trended for weeks after a viral video showed a German kindergarten teaching Arabic prayers while banning Christmas carols. Users posted crime stats: in London, 63% of knife crime suspects in 2024 were non-white despite being 40% of the population. The platform's real-time data sharing bypasses legacy media spin.

This isn't about superiority complexes, it's survival. Western culture birthed the scientific method, rule of law, and individual rights. Lose it, and you lose the engine of progress. China copies iPhones, but censors dissent. Saudi Arabia funds skyscrapers, but stones adulterers. The West's sins, colonialism, slavery, are real, but its gifts, democracy, medicine, prosperity, are unmatched.

Is the fightbacktoo late? Demography says maybe. Europe's median age is 43; sub-Saharan Africa's is 19. By 2050, Nigeria alone will have 400 million people. If borders stay porous, the culture that cured polio could be swamped by one that still practices it.

1.Secure Borders: Physical and legal. Deportation flights, not catch-and-release.

2.Merit-Based Immigration: Skills, not sob stories. Canada's points system works; copy it.

3.Cultural Confidence: Teach kids Locke, not "land acknowledgments." Celebrate Watt, not warlords.

4.Tech as Ally: Use AI to monitor borders, translate laws, and expose crime stats in real time.

The spoiled children of relativism are losing their tantrum. From Budapest to Texas, people are saying: "We built this. We keep this." The fight isn't against other cultures, it's for the one that made the modern world possible. And it's just beginning.