Cologne attacks: “This is sexual terrorism directed towards women”

[Lizzie Poppet]

32. Not all cultures are compatible.

No amount of starry-eyed wishful thinking will change that. It doesn't matter one bit if the majority of immigrants from an incompatible culture are able to sublimate that culture's incompatible influences and elements as long as a reasonably significant minority are unwilling to do so. Especially not when that minority is attacking people.

Any culture that is at fundamental, core-value odds with modern progressive Western culture in terms of things like the status of women, LGBT rights, and so forth is simply incompatible. That's not to say immigrants from that culture are incompatible...but the onus to change and adapt is on them, the newcomers. That is to say, if they're not willing to reject, at least in practice if not in thought, those incompatible elements, then conflict with the culture of their new home will be inevitable.

Also, anyone who conflates objections to demonstrably harmful and incompatible effects of a culture with actual racism, please clear off back to the kiddie table. That has nothing whatsoever to do with race.