Posted on 11/29/2019 7:20:12 AM PST by karpov
Are conservatives against the campus diversity administrative machine or are they opposed to diversity itself?
The argument in favor of the former seems like an easy one. Ever since debates over affirmative action heated up in the 60s and 70s, conservative groups and publicationsthis Center includedhave marshalled an impressive array of data, stories, and philosophical arguments in favor of merit-based acceptance of students into college and against what seems like artificial boosterism that leads to unintended and negative consequenceseven for the beneficiaries of affirmative action themselves.
However, there is a great difference between elite conservatives and the rightwing man on the street. The fact that Turning Point USA, one of the most popular conservative student groups, repeatedly gets caught in scandals involving support for white supremacy and open and covert bigotry toward their fellow citizens means that too many young conservatives hear conservative leaders rallying against the liberal conception of diversity and think they mean diversity as such.
Its more than odd or embarrassing that this is the caseits tragic. Ever since the rise of modernity in the form of the French Revolution, conservative thinkers of all stripes and across the globe argued fiercely for the diversity and variety of human life against the pulverizing flattening of modernity and of progressive thinking.
Edmund Burke famously railed against the French destruction of its local traditions and regional identities in favor of mathematical départements. British conservatives fought for local variety in their country in the nineteenth century against the utilitarians seeking to flatten everything based on mathematical formulas. Americas own conservative movement in the 50s arose against the crushing political conformity of that era. All throughout, conservatives everywhere celebrated or at least tolerated a degree of human variety as a bulwark against uniformity and as an expression of human wonder and growth.
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Campus diversity is the same old 60’s hippy scam everyone gets a slice of the pie and nobody has to earn it.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. - Thomas Sowell
I read Mr. Avi Woolf’s article. I cannot find a thesis or a logical conclusion anywhere. It seems to be mainly a mash-up of English words.
Diversity and multiculturalism are a cancer.
Diversity is not a goal. It is something you must reduce as much as possible, in fact. The idea of a melting pot means that those of different cultures will become one culture over time. It doesn’t mean dividing ourselves into multicultural enclaves.
Diversity in a competitive environment is the natural order of things. Diversity with forced “socially just” outcomes, is far worse than cancer.
What they want is the “tossed salad”, in fact they now deem the term “melting pot” as racist.
He was out to write a 1000 word article and did. It didn’t matter is he made any sense.
Liberals have taken Webster’s Dictionary and reversed the meaning of every word in it. “Diversity” to them means everyone who thinks just like MEEEEE!
Conservatives think diversity is a plethora of ideas from everyone. Leftists think diversity is people from different walks of life thinking the same thing...
“Conservatives think diversity is a plethora of ideas from everyone. Leftists think diversity is people from different walks of life thinking the same thing...”
Now that’s a brilliant summary. And amply demonstrated by the libtard reaction when someone on the plantation speaks non-plantation truths.
I think the concept of social “diversity” took hold after it was recognized that genetic diversity makes a population robust from extinction due to sudden introduction of deadly plagues, loss of an essential food resource, etc.
How that principle extrapolates to mandates based on sex, sexual preference, sexual identity or national origin is not clear to me. I don’t think those that demand these things are at all concerned about extinction events, in any case.
It’s done specifically to dilute the value of those who achieve.
Diverse is a description; the media, academia, leftists, and the Democrats have largely been successful in elevating it to a virtue. Merely questioning this alleged virtue is to be labeled as elitist or racist, or both. Not questioning it has led to widespread incompetence, a lack of excellence in nearly all endeavors, public or private, and will eventually the dissolution of civilization itself.
Funny how university football teams dont do diversity No females, chubby or skinny computer geeks, short little Mexicans or handicapped persons.
WTH? They preach Diversity is our strength! at those universities...
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