Hakim Bey From Boundary Violations The new catchphrase “multiculturalism” simply hides a form of ethnic cultural cleansing under a semantic mask of liberal pluralism. Multiculturalism is a means of separating one culture from another, for avoiding all possibility of cross-cultural synergy or mutuality or communicativeness. At best multiculturalism provides the Consensus with an excuse to commit a bit of cultural pillaging � �appropriation� � to add some sanitized version of otherness to its own dreary uniform boredom � through tourism , or vapid academic curricula based on �respect and dignity�.