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To Tell the Truth
The American Spectator ^ | 4/21/2006 | Mark A. Kalthoff

Posted on 04/21/2006 12:28:36 PM PDT by neverdem

While preparing to interview a job candidate recently, I studied the website of the applicant's current academic employer, wondering at what sort of college he worked. Now I probably should not have been so astonished at the answer. Among the website's nuggets of inane propaganda was the proclamation, "Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common, celebrate it everyday."

A daily celebration of diversity? Is diversity a "thing"? Doesn't one assign truth values to propositions rather than to things? But we know that this assertion means that no statements are true of all people because people differ too much from one another in their opinions, values, habits, customs, and beliefs -- not to mention gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference. In fact, the differences are such that nothing applicable to all can go by the name of truth. For nothing applies to all. One might as well declare, "I have nothing in common with you; but since you also have nothing in common with me, we have something in common after all. We'll call it diversity. Ergo, let's throw a party!"

One might chuckle at the fatuous diversity drivel masquerading as wisdom, but, to paraphrase the title of Richard Weaver's famous polemic, "Fatuous drivel has Consequences." The consequences of campus diversity mantras are indeed dire, for they reveal the deep betrayal of higher education's foundational principles -- principles upon which civilizations stand or fall.

Universities were not created to encourage diversity or throw parties in its honor. Rather, they were founded upon the principle that ascertainable Truth exists. These days many conservatives seek to reform higher education by demanding that universities practice their professed diversity. These conservatives grant the diversity crowd's premise. Then they beg, in the name of fairness, for a seat at the table. They plead,...

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1 posted on 04/21/2006 12:28:38 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Great article--thanks for posting.

(see my tagline :-) )
2 posted on 04/21/2006 12:33:42 PM PDT by cgbg (When you hear the words "gender" or "stakeholder" run for your life!)
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To: neverdem


But they have discovered the truth and it's Communism...


3 posted on 04/21/2006 12:35:56 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Tzimisce

That reminds me of the time my friend and another guy started college. They both wanted to live with a foreign exchange student so the administration put them in the same room.


4 posted on 04/21/2006 1:01:34 PM PDT by Elsieright
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To: sauropod

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5 posted on 04/21/2006 1:02:57 PM PDT by sauropod ("Age is just a number" - Brenda Frese, UMD Women's Basketball Coach, 4/4/06)
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To: neverdem

Nice, thanks for posting.


6 posted on 04/21/2006 3:12:30 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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