Diversity is the opposite of excellence.
You can have one, but you can’t have both.
“Diversity is the opposite of excellence.”
Actually it depends on the trait that you are judging.
If you are talking about traits that can be ranked from best to worst, then obviously one would always choose the best. For example one would choose the best doctor, or the most reliable car, or the best teacher, etc.
However there are traits that cannot be ranked from best to worst. Things like colors for example. In that case having diverse colors is what is best - there is no objective “best color”. It’s for those types of traits that diversity is a plus, is best.
So for example when choosing a car, it’s much better to have a variety of colors to choose from than only one. Similarly if you go to a restaurant it’s much better to have a variety of foods, than just one. Or if you go to a store looking for clothes, it’s much better if they have a varied selection of colors, sizes and styles.
So diversity can be good, but only for the things for which there is no objective rank of best to worst. I couldn’t care less about diversity when it comes to choosing a doctor, a school, a handyman, but I do care about it if I’m choosing the color of a car or of a shirt.
So the fallacy about “diversity is our strength”, is in forcing diversity in fields or things where one can objectively rank the “goodness” of the item or person in question. And in trying to force it into everything for its own surreptitious agenda, the left has succeeded in giving “diversity” a bad rep.