Thomas Sowell compares the Iran earthquake with its recent counterpart in California, and comes up with some excellent points about the cult of multiculturalism: Two Earthquakes And Their Results Under Two Different Social Systems.

Those who preen themselves on their “compassion” for the poor, and who disdain wealth, are being inconsistent, if not hypocritical. Wealth is the only thing that can prevent poverty. However, if you are not trying to prevent poverty but to exploit it for political purposes, that is another story.

There is another side to the story of these two earthquakes and their consequences. It gives the lie to the dogma being propagandized incessantly, from the schools to the media, that one culture is just as good as another.

It is just as good to lose tens of thousands of lives as not to? What hogwash! It is just as good to lack modern medicine, modern transportation, and modern industry as it is to have them? Who is kidding whom?