War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Power and Diversity is our Strength!
Our strength has and always be Liberty and our success Faith in God.
Diversity in the workplace makes for inefficiency with the customer the victim. I’ve been questioning this assumption for years.
“Diversity is our strength”
Mindless mushy-headed liberal babble.
Immigrants used to assimilate and wait their turn.
It is an opinion column by Jonah Goldberg (semi-pseudo-conservative of the National Review), so it is in no way representative of the “uber liberal LA Times”..... like many publications, they allow the occasional dissenting voice just to pretend that they are open-minded. Of course, no one in the 90+% majority of liberal MSM would take this questioning of “diversity” seriously for a moment.
What if Linda weren’t a doofus?
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Ukraine, are just a few very recent examples where diversity was not strength. In fact, diversity was fatal
Diversity of opinions is nearly always a good thing. That can be done with or without a variety of racial backgrounds. If you have 10 people on a committee - 5m, 5f, 3 white, 2 black, 1chinese, 1 Indian, 2 Hispanics and one Jew - but all of them are from upper class families from multiple generations - will have less diverse opinions than a group of 8m, 2f, 8 white, 1 black, 1 Asian but come from all types of backgrounds with regards to income and education.
Diversity of thought makes a society stronger, which is weird since people like Senatewhore Graham want to force all of us to think exactly alike.
With a stock portfolio it's to be prosperous. With a diet it's to be healthier. With exercise it's to be more fit and healthier. All shared goals. With people it only works if the goals and values are close enough aligned; otherwise it's a failing not a strength.
Different cultures may have a shared goal of being prosperous but not shared values on what it means to be prosperous. When these different cultures are thrown together they may both survive but not thrive; at least not like they would if they had shared values. They are going in different directions to acquire a different outcome. One culture may strive for wealth while another may strive for spiritual richness.
Sorry for the ramble. I sometimes wonder if the great American experiment is failing from too much diversity. Diversity is killing Europe as we speak.
Diversity is not a societal virtue by itself. If the diversity goes against Christianity, capitalism, logic, republicanism... that does not make us stronger. This is a meaningless phrase - fitting for Grahamnesty.
If you want to run a smooth and efficient business, the best thing to do is hire a bunch of people who speak as many different languages as possible and have no common basic morals. See how that goes, especially if your business has to follow English blueprints and instruction.
Diversity - is that not a derivative of DIVIDE. As in, divide and conquer. God used “diversity” to stop the tower of Babel.
It’s diversity in skills that count, not diversity in ideology. Race isn’t supposed to be a contributing factor. It’s all about the how we ought to live ideology.
Other than that,”diversity is our strength” is a Madison Avenue platitude taken up as a mantra of those that want to radically change our ideology.
When diversity is defined in terms of ethnicity, skin pigment, and other superficial terms, diversity is a weakness.
when diversity is defined in terms of viewpoints, experience, education, and fields of knowledge, it can become a strength - but only through each diverse individual applying their talents and skills to achieve a unified goal.
Some things are intuitively obvious.
What if you really can’t learn much from cultures that are stuck in the 7th century?
What if the Clintons really aren’t good people?
What if the reason Obama hasn’t released a US birth certificate is because he doesn’t have one?
America has never been about diversity primarily. It’s always been about unity as an end result.
” Thomas Sowell once said, “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” “
Keeper.
The problem is that the “immagrants” don’t want to become American Citizens. They want to reap our welfare rewards, not learn the language and customs of America, and make their little area into the same place they came from.
At least in the military, there is a forced common goal from people of all places. The way things are set up now, there is no incentive.