Richard Bernstein - Dictatorship of Virtue - 1995 version

pg 355 - "the point is that multiculturalism as an adversary culture remains dominant within the elite institutions. its assumptions are unchanged: that there is no single national culture but several cultures defined by race and ethnicity; that all cultures are equal and all cultures made equal contributions to American civilization; that the ineradicable ingredient of American life is its oppressiveness and unfairness to women and minorities; that the country is changing its nature and we must make radical changes to be prepared for the new "diversity"; that instilling ethnic and racial self-esteem is the main task of education; that the remediation of attitudes about race and gender (and sometimes the prosecution of those attitudes) should be ever more important goals of our society.

multiculturaism in this sense is an ideology that is unaware of itself as an ideology. it is presumed to embody virtue, and virtue needs to brook no opposition. in reality, however, multiculturalism is not virtue. it is a new entitlement, being presented as virtue as a way of forestalling opposition