Diversity: The good, the bad, and the ugly

American Thinker ^ | 08/27/2019 | David L. Rosenthal

[SeekAndFind]

Is diversity good?

In some things, diversity is very good. There are some things that could not even exist without diversity. Fruit salad, for example. What would a fruit salad be without diversity, if it contained only watermelon or only grapes?

Diversity in the marketplace caters to the needs and preferences of consumers. Some want chocolate, others vanilla. Some want a coupe, others a sedan. Some want Fast and Furious, others Beauty and the Beast.

Diversity in education offers a variety of study opportunities for people with different interests. Some major in mathematics, others in literature, others in engineering, others in law, others in woodworking, and others in origami.

But what happens when there is diversity in worldview, sociopolitical ideology, and moral orientation? Can we all just get along? Can we be a happy-go-lucky melting pot of people with disparate values, beliefs, norms, agendas, and objectives? Do we want to coexist with others who do not share our values? Should we tolerate others who do not share our values?

It's a big world, full of diversity, in which world wars, regional conflicts, clashes of civilization, clashes of ideology, border conflicts, and genocides are a fact of life. So what often happens when some face off with others? What happens when a mountain lion meets an antelope?

Darwin told us we and the apes evolved from a common ancestor. Survival of the fittest seems a virtue to some. But in order to tolerate diversity in society, tolerance must be taught as a virtue. As long as Darwin's theories are advanced, tolerance will seem unattractive to the strong.

Here in America, we think of ours still as a free republic, despite numerous attacks on our freedoms from left-leaning ideologues, sharia-adherent ideologues, and globalist opportunists.

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Every. Single.

[BitWielder1]

The idyllic exchange of food, culture and ideas are fine.
The forced jam-it-down-your-throat diversity and you're-racist-if-you-don't-like-it is not good.

[outpostinmass2]

Japan has close to zero diversity. Same with China.

[G Larry]

>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<

...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one's own family. 

Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.

Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.

Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.

And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday's Diversity is today's intolerable lack of Diversity.

Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.

Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.

[BobinIL]

Diversity to a liberal is you must conform to our way of thinking or else You are a Racist, misogynist, homophobe!!! Just because I disagree with you doesn’t mean I hate you unfortunately the liberals have managed to use the media to paint that exact picture. You disagree with progressive (liberal) Ideology ore else You are a hater!! In fact they are the ones that are hating and acting like Fascists by accusing us (Conservatives) of being what they actually are.

[Truthoverpower]

Tolerance is the new liberal mantra

I’ve had several long discussions with other wise liberals in the Bay Area about the growing homeless problem

many of these homeless or drug attic’s and the power structure not only coddled them but gives them free needles and places to shoot up

and I’ve gotten these liberals to agree that this is actually harming those individuals this “tolerance”