Illogical Spins on the Logic of Diversity

"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia ... could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide." -- Abraham Lincoln

The winning streak enjoyed by campus activists this fall was violently interrupted by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Some activists were sufficiently annoyed by their ejection from the limelight that they took to Twitter to complain under the hashtag "F---Paris."

The most obvious irony stemmed from the fact that some of the same protestors who griped about media coverage of their antics -- even declaring First Amendment-free zones -- suddenly whined when the cameras turned to bloodshed in the heart of Europe.

But there's a deeper irony. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, fueled by a cynical media strategy directed by the president himself, the national conversation turned quickly from Barack Obama's foreign policy failures to the bigotry and insensitivity of the Republican Party. There's no denying that Donald Trump made this an easy pivot for the Beltway Brahmins. But left unnoticed in the clamor is the dismaying disconnect between the conversation elite liberals want to have and the one being pushed by their left-wing shock troops on the ground.

For instance, on ABC's "This Week," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) ripped into Republican rhetoric about Syrian refugees, saying that we must have "confidence in who we are as a nation ... we need to be adhering to the values that have made this country strong."

Ellison was hardly alone. Everyone seems to be talking about those American "values" of tolerance, diversity and pluralism. Obama has been on a tear about how rejecting refugees is "not American" and how those refugees are akin to the pilgrims who arrived on our shores. He pays rote lip service to denouncing murderers in Paris.

Meanwhile, back on our campuses, those very values are routinely denounced as little more than "white privilege." Needless to say, the people who want to see Columbus Day banned and call for an accounting of America's crimes against Native Americans don't think too highly of those Pilgrims.

As for our values, student protestors and their enablers on and off campus offer a full-throated rejection of America's (classical) liberal principles and, at times, America itself. By now you've heard it said that "free speech" is just code for "white privilege" or even "hate speech." Tolerance itself has become a dirty word for many.

Many campuses have announced a zero-tolerance policy for "hate speech" and "racial insensitivity," and countless more campuses have students demanding that such policies be implemented at their schools.

In principle, that doesn't sound so bad. The problem is that the definitions of hate speech and insensitivity have become entirely elastic and subjective. Disagreement with the mob of right-thinkers is now deemed unacceptable. There's a vaguely Maoist flavor to demands that liberal white professors and administrators confess and atone for their "white privilege."

It's gotten to the point where even admiration for non-European culture is denounced as bigoted if that admiration blossoms into so-called "cultural appropriation." Ethnic food fads are denounced for their insensitivity; the website Everydayfeminism.com recently offered "The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative."

For generations, we've heard that "diversity makes us stronger." I'll leave it to another day to question whether this premise can withstand the test of reality. The relevant point is that many of the chief beneficiaries -- or at least their self-proclaimed leaders -- of what was once called "Diversity Inc." now reject the logic of diversity at the most fundamental level. The famous "melting pot" is now derided as a kind of cultural genocide.

Nothing is more comfortable for the Sunday-morning talk show elites than taking on the alleged forces of intolerance to their right. Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently argued for promoting America's "Judeo-Christian" values of tolerance, equality, free speech and pluralism. NBC's Chuck Todd fretted that such rhetoric sounded "anti-Islam."

Meanwhile, the campus left is openly rejecting those core American values, and the response from media elites has run the gamut from condescending tolerance to abject encouragement.

By all means, we need more civilizational confidence. But demonstrating it only to denounce partisan opponents isn't confidence at all. It's a recipe for suicide.

Their pseudo “diversity” is one of NO diversity. Only one (Marxist) way to “think” and that is to NOT “think”——it is to be programmed.

This nation exists because of the Freedom to think-—Freedom of Ideas-—not “diversity” of anything else. It only comes from the Free Will in Christianity that allows Freedom-—only the Rational “faith”-—all other “faiths” are irrational at fundamental levels-—all create an irrational Worldview-—esp. the faith of Atheism and Satanism (dehumanization and forcing vice to become addictive which destroys Reason).

All these drones on today’s school campuses are CIA Maoists who are trying to destroy Western Civilization (Christianity) so that they can eliminate that idea which created America: Individual Natural Rights only come from God and can’t be removed by any ‘majority” or oligarchy. Fundamental human rights is the Right to offend because Truth ALWAYS offends and makes the ignorant uncomfortable.

They want stupid non-thinking masses (drones for corporate slavery/state slavery)-—and they want the Right to kill the useless eaters and decide all the important/private property “rules and regulations” which herd us like the cattle they believe us to be in their satanic, godless ideology.

We need to return to the “...laws of nature and nature’s God”-—the basis of our Constitution and Rule of Law and Justice System. True Justice Systems only promote VIRTUE (only Christian Ethics in the West)-—never vice and irrational, vile concepts to children like “homosexual marriage” which removes Reason and Logic and understanding of Truth/God Promoting welfare/theft, sodomy, etc. is ALWAYS unconstitutional and the satanic justices (Marxists) on the Supreme Ct. need to be in prison for promoting tyranny and chaos—irrationality on children. Same with allowing killing babies. Pure evil “law” (satanic religion) in a our “Justice” system.

All unjust law (evil promoting laws) are “null and void” and YOU are commanded not to obey them like the Nuremberg judges also proclaimed.

No; your story is not boring! None of us can know
everything about our ancestors. Daddy had to go to
Italy to fight the Germans during WWII. He loved the
Italian people; German officers not so much. He felt sorry
for the ordinary conscripted German soldier because they
were only there because Hitler demanded it. - Heck, by
that time, the Civil War was OVER and done with for
better or worse; mostly worse. On Momma’s side of it;
her folks came over here to escape the Potato Famine. Also,
on her side of it; there were the Huguenots who were run
out of France because they were Protestants. Later, my
Huguenot ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War and got
land grants (dwindled away due to lots of kids). Maybe
the Lord will one day tell us all about our ancestors; but
I somehow think that bloodlines aren’t all that big a deal
to him. In one place in the Bible, it’s referred to as
“useless genealogies”.

There’s a town called Huguenot on Staten Island!!

has to be named after them!

Interesting story.

We weren’t here for the civil war. There was no reason to fight it. If the south had had the same numbers, they would have clocked the north, which also forced Irish to fight right off the boat.

Slavery would have eventually disappeared without 600,000!!! men dying.

My Huguenot folks’ names were “Maupin”, originally a
French name. It was shameful what was done to the
Huguenots; many of them were murdered just because
they weren’t Catholic. I don’t hate anybody; but I could
never be a Catholic - just too much in my past that leaves
a mark. Distant past for sure. - Slavery was on the way
out before long; and while blacks might have had to
sharecrop like a lot of the rest of us, they would have
been more likely to have walked away from that dynamic with
a bit of dignity. There’s something about having to do it
yourself that tends to foster dignity. LBJ invented “The
Great Society” in a cynical bid for the Democrats to “own”
the black vote forever. . which they apparently now do.
The Civil War left so many dead (the land was marred by
dead bodies for longer than many people realize). The
invention of the cotton gin was a big help in the
industry. Now, the cotton pickers are machines. - The
human condition really reeks & the ambition of some men
for power over people is demonic. - I’m in my 70th year &
on my way out of this mortal coil sooner rather than
later. Mankind has ruled himself and scored an F-minus!
So, I say “MARANATHA!” - the sooner the better!

I tried to reply to your post; but loused that up.
- It’s not your fault what happened hundreds of years
ago. Neither of us were even born then! I’m not such a
nice person; even trying I still mess up. - Things work
out for the best. My Huguenot folks came over here; fought
in the Revolutionary War and got land grants and spread
out. - I’m kin to Denton ancestors, too. Samuel Denton
delivered beef to Washington’s troops at Valley Forge. He
was too old to fight; so did what he could to help. - A
lot on FR are still trying to fight the Civil War. Our
bunch was in that, too, on the Rebel side is about all I
know anything about. - Then Daddy went to N. Africa, Italy
& Germany & fought Hitler. That sticks in my memory more
than anything. - I hate that people have piddled that
away on a Muslim President hellbent on raining hell down on
our heads with “imported” voters. - He “talks” all brave
because for now, he has armed bodyguards to stand between
him & the Jihadists. For now, at any rate.

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