Scruton uses the term as the antithesis of xenophobia . In his book , '' Roger Scruton : Philosopher on Dover Beach '' , Mark Dooley describes oikophobia as centered within the Western academic establishment on " both the common culture of the West , and the old educational curriculum that sought to transmit its humane values . " This disposition has grown out of , for example , the writings of Jacques Derrida and of Michel Foucault 's " assault on ' bourgeois ' society result ing in an ' anti-culture ' that took direct aim at holy and sacred things , condemning and repudiating them as oppressive and power-ridden . " Derrida is a classic oikophobe in so far as he repudiates the longing for home that the Western theological , legal , and literary traditions satisfy . . . . Derrida 's deconstruction seeks to block the path to this ' core experience ' of membership , preferring instead a rootless existence founded ' upon nothing . ' An extreme aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West is described as the underlying motif of oikophobia ; and not the substitution of Judeo-Christianity by another coherent system of belief . The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is " significantly more parochial , exclusivist , patriarchal , and ethnocentric . " Scruton described " a chronic form of oikophobia which has spread through the American universities , in the guise of political correctness . " Scruton 's usage has been taken up by some American political commentators to refer to what they see as a rejection of traditional American culture by the liberal elite . In August 2010 James Taranto wrote a column in the '' Wall Street Journal '' entitled " Oikophobia : Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting " , in which he criticized supporters of the proposed Islamic center in New York as oikophobes who were defending Muslims who aimed , in his words , to " exploit the 9/11 atrocity " . In the Netherlands , the term oikophobia has been adopted by politician and writer Thierry Baudet , which he describes in his book , '' Oikophobia : The fear of home ''
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