Posted on 08/14/2009 11:33:20 AM PDT by GOPGuide
One of my Type O Negative concert tees has an image of fascist hordes marching in droves.
The back says “Diversity Equals Destruction”.
The only reason Putnam can talk is that he has tenure. Although if he talks too loudly, he will meet the same fate as Larry Summers.
Consider how surprising this is. Achieving diversity, especially ethnic diversity, is an explicit goal of virtually all major corporations, universities, and government agencies. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that diversity is a “compelling state interest” that overrides legal prohibitions on race-based school admissions.
If diversity causes social breakdown, you can imagine the impact when governments and coporations openly discriminate and force diversity upon a population.
Me too. My parents taught me all this when I was a child in the early 60’s.
I disagree with that premise. Intelligent people tend to be more successful, thus have more capital at hand to share in acts of volitional charity. Altruism is a mental disorder. It compels involuntary charitable acts without concern for the consequences to oneself.
I think it’s possible that the movers and shakers directing the left’s agenda to make America into a socialist nation may have always known this also. It would fit right into their motive to weaken America, the better to overthrow our established democratic government. A version of “divide and conquer”. There is a list of goals to be reached in order to enact communism I’ve seen here at FR, and I seem to recall that racial conflict in order to weaken society was on the list (in other words, probably). Which makes the phrase “Diversity is our strength” thoroughly Orwellian. The marxists have always known that forced diversity would weaken us.
Yeah and Yale wont allow the Mohamed cartoons to be printed in a book about cartoons, afraid of diversity not celebrating it.
Genesis 11:1-9 (NIV)
The Tower of Babel
(1) Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. (2) As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
(3) They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. (4) Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
(5) But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. (6) The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. (7) Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
(8) So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. (9) That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Whether you consider this story the literal truth, an allegory, or simply an attempt by human authors to explain why people speak different languages, the message is clear. Diversity of language is not a blessing but a curse. Diversity of language does not help people work together more effectively but makes it impossible for them work together effectively. People have known this for thousands of years.
Just another example of the fact that the entirety of the leftist ideology is based on lies.
Not just language, CULTURE (of which a common language is a huge part).
Even if someone speaks your language, yet has a different value system than you have, you aren’t going to trust them fully.
FYI
Most Voters Say Immigration Reform Not Likely to Pass
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Voter preferences are clear, however. By a 70% to 22% margin, voters say that gaining control of the borders is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already in the country.
Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. Roughly the same number want cops to check the immigration status of all offenders during traffic stops. Sixty-seven percent (67%) also say that if law enforcement officers know of places where immigrants gather to find work, they should sometimes conduct surprise raids to identify and deport those who are here illegally. On another hot button topic, 77% of voters nationwide oppose drivers’ licenses for undocumented immigrants.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters nationwide say that those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be punished. By a 48% to 36% margin, voters say the same about landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.
So we essentially have ethnic diversity but shared values, in a positive sense of sharing.
Your innercities like LA have ethnic diversity and shared values only in the sense that they are suckling off the government teat and competiting with each other for tax dollars. This, not the ethnic diversity itself, is at the root cause of social breakdown. However, the various ethnic "community organizers" are those which organize the social breakdown through their confrontational methods to maximize their take.
Absolutely. And much of what is currently called “racism” is actually a conflict of culture, not physical features such as skin color.
Restated - those places with a homogeneous Western Culture were most trusting, with the highest level of social capital, than those places with any dilution of that Western Culture.
And what culture is the left trying to destroy? Yep.
Notice he didn't find any "homogeneous" places that weren't "white" (ie, Western Culture) that had a high level of social capital. So, if it was a matter of homogeneity - some all black neighborhoods would have a higher social capital score than a mixed neighborhood.
I'm certain that the researcher would discover that the "social capital score" would be directly correlated to the "Western Culture score" for the area in question.
What needs to be added is that trust isn’t universal among “whites”, either. There is a significant range of trust between different white ethnicities and it drops off quite a bit even in Eastern Europe and in the Southern parts of Europe, for example and there are groups like the Irish “Travellers” that test the tolerance of those around them.
You also need to notice that there is a tremendous amount of trust in Japan, which is not quite “Western Culture”. I would argue that it rivals, if not exceeds, the trust and social capital in the United States. The amount of things that get left out in the open in Tokyo without getting stolen and things done as a matter of trust was mind-boggling when I lived there. Further, if you look at immigrant black communities from the Caribbean and parts of Africa have substantially more trust than urban African American communities.
So I agree it’s a matter of culture as well as homogeneity but it’s not just Western Culture and it’s probably counter-productive and unnecessary to invoke race at all, even as a proxy for culture.
I think that it is culture more than anything else that
seperates people. You wonder what some people are teaching
their kids about the proper way to live in this society.
I taught my kids what my parents taught me that will work
for them and make them into responsible people. If you
were brought up in a culture that doesn’t value the same
things and have standards of conduct that reflect where
you live now, you’re going to be diverse alright.
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