Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos

Townhall.com ^ | August 25, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations throughout history.

The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls and myriad other African, Asian and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas corpus and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity had won out but would soon prove a fatal liability.

Rome disintegrated when it became unable to assimilate new influxes of northern European tribes. Newcomers had no intention of giving up their Gothic, Hunnish or Vandal identities.

The propaganda of history's multicultural empires -- the Ottoman, the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian, the British and the Soviet -- was never the strength of their diversity. To avoid chaos, their governments bragged about the religious, ideological or royal advantages of unity, not diversity.

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[Lurkinanloomin]

Diversity is division

Unity is strength

[Kaslin]

I couldn’t agree more

[lurk]

God appoints a life span to every nation. Built in are factors which bring each to its end. Mercifully, corrupt government and culture end up getting eliminated.

[Maceman]

Diversity is division Unity is strength

How dare you say these things when everybody knows that:

Diversity is strength
Unity is division

Report to Room 101 imnmediately, citizen.

[KC_Lion]

Chaos Isn't a Pit.

Chaos is a Ladder!

Who cares if the country burns if you can be King of the Ashes.

[Kaslin]

King off the Ashes? I’ve never heard that phrase, but you are right.

[JusPasenThru]

Hillary is an ashhole.

[Red Badger]

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Divida et Impera” — Divide and rule — Julius Caesar

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[Will88]

Even onetime diversity advocate Oprah Winfrey has had second thoughts about the lack of commonality in America. She recently vowed to quit using the word "diversity" and now prefers "inclusion."

Hey, Oprah, "inclusion" doesn't do it, either. The words you are seeking are "shared values" and "common goals". Anything that strays too far from that can only lead to chaos and even eventual ruin.

Maybe you'll get there at some point in your life.

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[Ohioan]

The Left's obsession with "diversity" is really a war on heritage--and always has been. Diversity.

It is being used against cultural continuity, the preservation of sovereignty, and all that once made America the envy of the world.