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What’s So Great About Diversity, Anyway?
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 9, 2022 | Eric Johnson

Posted on 11/11/2022 8:07:50 AM PST by karpov

What is diversity, and why is it so good for college students?

That’s one of the questions at the heart of the Supreme Court cases over race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and it was asked early and often during the nearly five hours of oral arguments last week.

“I’ve heard the word ‘diversity’ quite a few times, and I don’t have a clue what it means,” Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said to UNC’s lawyer, North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park. “I’d like you to give us a specific definition of diversity in the context of the University of North Carolina. And I’d also like you to give us a clear idea of exactly what the educational benefits of diversity at the University of North Carolina could be.”

It was the opening question to Park, and it should have been a softball. The educational benefits of diversity—the idea that all students get a boost from learning alongside classmates of different races—is absolutely central to Carolina’s case. It’s been part of Supreme Court jurisprudence on affirmative action for decades, ever since the controlling opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) affirmed a “compelling state interest” in diversity on campus.

Park’s meandering, multipart answer—touching on rural students, veterans, enhanced creativity, bias reduction, “deepness and richness” in the learning environment, and the statistically stronger performance of racially diverse groups of stockbrokers (!)—exemplified the mushy, everything-to-everyone logic that has made affirmative action such a ripe target for litigants and such a lopsided loser in opinion polls. “We value diversity of all different kinds in all the ways that people differ in our society,” Park said. Look for the conservative opinion to quote that line disapprovingly come June.

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1 posted on 11/11/2022 8:07:50 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

I hope that means diversity of opinions.


2 posted on 11/11/2022 8:09:11 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: karpov

Di longer you verk here, diverse it gets!


3 posted on 11/11/2022 8:11:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov
Thomas, highlighting the absurdity once again.

Affirmative action is going to be killed at last.

4 posted on 11/11/2022 8:14:54 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: karpov
Clarence Thomas -- “I’ve heard the word ‘diversity’ quite a few times, and I don’t have a clue what it means. I’d like you to give us a specific definition of diversity in the context of the University of North Carolina. And I’d also like you to give us a clear idea of exactly what the educational benefits of diversity at the University of North Carolina could be.”

Wow. We've been waiting DECADES for somebody to ask those two questions. Good for Justice Thomas!

Did North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park reply with dripping condescension: "Why, everybody KNOWS Diversity Is Our Strength. Duh!!"?

5 posted on 11/11/2022 8:15:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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To: karpov

From what I’ve seen it looks like diversity means getting to mix with really stupid people of all colors.


6 posted on 11/11/2022 8:16:32 AM PST by euram
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To: karpov

Many diverse people are all mostly the same..where it counts.
They vote the same.
Most hate actual equality and fairness..because if there was actual equality and fairness ..they might have to make it on their own
Tmany lie cheat and steel to get things their way.
They want “their share” of your pie.


7 posted on 11/11/2022 8:17:08 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: karpov
Since the beginning of time....people have gathered in groups...let's call the picture "tribal".

This forcing one tribe to cross into another's tribe's territory simply will not work....ever. We will always gather into tribes by our commonness.

8 posted on 11/11/2022 8:19:09 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I just read Park’s meandering, mushy, everything-to-everybody answer and, yes, he did effectively reply “Everybody KNOWS Diversity Is Our Strength.”

He also said: “We value diversity of all different kinds in all the ways that people differ in our society.” Yeah, right. To test your claim, just invite Ann Coulter to your campus to speak.


9 posted on 11/11/2022 8:19:12 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

[[Wow. We’ve been waiting DECADES for somebody to ask those two questions]]

And ,the only one that has asked it, had the guts tk ask it, was a black justice. Ourse they will accuse him of being an uncle Tom for asking it, but it needed to be asked.


10 posted on 11/11/2022 8:19:40 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: karpov

Just look at what it did to our manufacturing and industry.

Investors want workers/production not HR drama...

...and so goes the capital.


11 posted on 11/11/2022 8:21:32 AM PST by exPBRrat (.)
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To: karpov

What’s great about diversity? Nothing. It is an enforced system that places excellence in last place. That is where we are in many ways now, last place.

Diversity is like the women’s rights program. It is designed to give access to the mainstream of society and outcome, not opportunity, to the average or less than average at the expense of the more able people.

Diversity is strength is communist propaganda.

Diversity is perversity of greatness is the truth.


12 posted on 11/11/2022 8:23:23 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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13 posted on 11/11/2022 8:24:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: karpov
Mao pushed communism on China because he saw it as something he could use as a substitute for religion. He saw communism as a religion he could control. A fabricated religion that still gave meaning to the lives of the Chinese people but put the reins of power in his hands.

That's what this diversity, CRT, Black Lives Matter, anti-racism, affirmative action, etc. is all about.

If puts control in someone's hands.

The question is "whose?"

14 posted on 11/11/2022 8:26:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: karpov

If diversity really is strength, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have won the first world war.


15 posted on 11/11/2022 8:29:48 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: karpov

Diversity is the ruin of empires. Unity is strength; unity of values and a unified philosophical framework in which a people view the world. For America, this has historically been and individualist philosophy of self-sufficiency build on a foundation of Christian morality. Collectivism and amorality cannot exist side by side with our traditional values. A house divided among itself cannot stand.


16 posted on 11/11/2022 8:29:57 AM PST by LambSlave
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I means “anti-white male”. If you’re not a white-male it is good for YOU. White females also support it but are too slow to realize the mob will come for their ‘whiteness’ sooner or later.

It’s nothing but anti-white, anti-western culture, anti-Christian doctrine wrapped in a ‘virtuous blanket’, also under a veil of communism.


17 posted on 11/11/2022 8:31:06 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: karpov

Diversity means a seat on the court for someone who doesn’t know what a woman is.


18 posted on 11/11/2022 8:35:05 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: karpov

Diversity + Proximity = Violence


19 posted on 11/11/2022 8:35:48 AM PST by Jim Noble (The Decline of America is a Choice )
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To: karpov

diversity is a weakness and is a buzzword for anti-white racism.


20 posted on 11/11/2022 8:40:40 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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