Posted on 12/19/2016 3:42:20 PM PST by jazusamo
Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word "diversity." The wonders of diversity are proclaimed from the media, extolled in the academy and confirmed in the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States. But have you ever seen one speck of hard evidence to support the lofty claims?
Although diversity has become one of the leading buzzwords of our time, it has a history that goes back several generations. In the early twentieth century, the principle of geographic diversity was used to conceal bias against Jews in the admission of students to Harvard and other leading academic institutions.
Because the Jewish population was concentrated in New York and other east coast communities at that time, quota limits on how many Jewish students would be admitted were concealed by saying that Harvard wanted a diverse student body, consisting of students from around the country.
Therefore some highly qualified Jewish applicants could be passed over, in favor of less qualified applicants from the midwest or other regions of the country.
My own first encounter with the idea of geographic diversity occurred more than half a century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Harvard, and worked as a photographer for the university news office, in order to help pay the bills.
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The last time I heard that was from Al Gore's lips when he deliberately mistranslated e pluribus unum as "from the one, many."
There's overwhelming evidence the Balkanization that began with Teddy Kennedy's Immigration Bill of 1968 -- which favors Third World immigration over people from English-speaking countries -- leads to turmoil and major conflict. That's doubly true when Muslims are a big part of the mix. Their beliefs are antithetical to the principles set forth in the our Constitution.
I’ve said for years that they will never end discrimination by discriminating.
and then on a more cataclysmic scale was redlining. Which i was taught was private banks refusing to make loans to questionable areas but the blame clearly on the FHA in 1939 good old FDR:
North Philadelphia had been painted red by the HOLC appraisers, meaning it wasn’t worth mortgage investment. In the forty years between 1950 and 1990, North Philadelphia had lost 53 percent of its population; it now had a vacancy rate of 17 percent and contained 11,512 abandoned residential structures.
Bissinger, Buzz. A Prayer for the City (p. 212). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. “Prayer for the City” every section of the city was the same
What the “Diversity Police” don’t tell the Sheeple is “Diversity is a code-word for non-white.”
Diversity is a fact, not a value.
Oh...they did plenty of that regarding coaching and ownership personnel.
Diversity is code for “fill the place with people who know they are unqualified, and will thus support the leftists who enable them to be there”
It’s also code for “unravel the fabric of our history and replace our successful, time-tested values with gibberish from failed cultures.”
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