An array of America's leading intellectuals agreed May 3 that “multiculturalism”—described as the attempt by the West's enemies to divide and conquer it—constituted a threat to what one called “Americanism.”
That term was described as the legacy of liberty and individualism conceived by the country's Founding Fathers, ensconced in the U.S. Constitution, and which underwent a new birth of freedom after the Civil War.
According to the program for the event, sponsored by the Claremont Institute and entitled “Multiculturalism vs. America,” the drive toward the former has eroded the latter's fundamental grasp of citizenship and national identity. Specifically, multiculturalism “perniciously and invidiously divides Americans by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation,” a list easily expanded to include gender identity, gender expression, and disability, which are other protected classes now etched in policy and often law.
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