Why It’s Hard to be Liberal
As a liberal how do you respond to the following conundrum?
indigenous people’s ways of life are to be respected as these customs are beautiful and it is cultural imperialism to judge them through our Western eyes or mores.
I don’t think any living liberal would debate the above so what does one do when one reads that the Tribal Council of the Navajo Nation just voted (unanimously by the way) in favor of legislation that forbids same-sex marriages on Navajo land.
Do you respect their wise and sage ways or disregard the culture they have lived under for hundreds of years and our impose outside values on them because our value system says that they are wrong? What’s a well-meaning liberal to do? I think most would say that we should respect their culture except when it conflicts with what we feel is morally right. Sounds like imperialism to me (and them).
Stay tuned for Why It’s Hard to be a Conservative.
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