To automatically and non-judgmentally celebrate cultural "diversity" is to refuse to confront consequences that can affect not only the lives of individuals but the fate of society as a whole. However clever tactical agnosticism may be as an exercise in verbal virtuosity, would anyone say that Nazism was just Hitler’s "lifestyle"? Or would the consequences be too overwhelming to be finessed aside with a few phrases? Non-judgmentalism is one of the most dangerous of all the arguments without arguments, for no reason is given for being non-judgmental*, unless endless repetition or peer consensus are considered to be reasons.
*To justify non-judgmentalism would be to violate the premise of non-judgmentalism itself, for it would say it is not just different to be non-judgmental, but better.
Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society. p.225
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