Boy, It's A Good Thing Liberals Are In Charge!!!

"[Anne] Pyburn complains that the 2012 phenomenon makes exotics out of the Maya. 'When people who have been colonized and oppressed decide they want to use their heritage to promote themselves, that's their choice. When it's being done by wealthy First-World nations, I think that's exploitative and I have a problem with it.' Her Indiana University colleague Quetzil Castañeda makes a similar argument a different way. 'The Maya,' he says, is a Western tag for a diverse group of people who lived—and indeed still live—without any unifying language or culture. To speak of any belief as 'Mayan' is like saying 'all brown people are the same. We obliterate the fact that they speak 28 different languages, there are 8 million of them—today. If they're all called Maya, they must be identical.' In Mexico, he adds, the real Maya think of 2012 as 'a gringo invention.' In America, we have always been uniquely receptive to end-times prophesy—Y2K is the most recent example. What's unique about 2012 is that it appeals not to fundamentalist Christians but to the New Age set."

-- Lisa Miller, showing how NewAge liberals are as crazy, exploitive, racist, and apocalyptic as they charge Right-Wing Christians with being, in Newsweek.