In his column Western culture worth the fight (SN 9/13), Nate Sherman readily invokes the Founding Fathers, arguing that our society has strayed to a dangerous degree from “the dream that the Founding Fathers had when they risked everything to sever our ties with Britain over 200 years ago” and calls for Americans to “return to Christendom.”
Contrary to his assertions, the “homogeneous culture” that Sherman so fervently pleads with us to save sounds nothing like the society envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Instead, it sounds ominously like the culture envisioned during the 1930s by another young nationalist – Adolf Hitler.
Indeed, I wonder if Sherman has even bothered to read any of the works penned by our Founding Fathers. Rather, I suspect, he did the majority of his research through the Ku Klux Klan’s Web site. Sherman may want to consult the Constitution. I would direct him in particular to the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion.
America is a nation built by the sweat of a diverse society and our current culture reflects this diversity. I wonder who in particular fits into Sherman’s America? Must one simply be Christian and speak English? Is whiteness also required? Perhaps he would just as well require that anyone not a descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves pack up and leave.
I can thank Sherman for at least providing me with good material for my research into fundamentalist pathology. I will be awaiting the time when Sherman’s articles begin to propose branding one’s ethnic and religious status on one’s arm.
Dana Mandel
physiology senior
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