Posted on 09/14/2018 2:16:58 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Our diversity is our greatest strength.
After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, "How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific."
Reaction to Carlson's question, with some declaring him a racist for having raised it, suggests that what we are dealing with here is not a demonstrable truth but a creed not subject to debate.
Yet the question remains valid: Where is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
From recent decades, it seems more true to say the reverse: The more diverse a nation, the greater the danger of its disintegration.
Ethnic diversity, after all, tore apart our mighty Cold War rival, splintering the Soviet Union into 15 nations, three of which — Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia — have since split further along ethnic lines.
Russia had to fight two wars to hold onto Chechnya and prevent the diverse peoples of the North Caucasus from splitting off on ethnic grounds, as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan had done.
Ethnic diversity then shattered Yugoslavia into seven separate nations.
And even as we proclaim diversity to be our greatest strength, nations everywhere are recoiling from it.
The rise of populism and nationalism across Europe is a reaction to the new diversity represented by the Arab, Asian and African millions who have lately come, and the tens of millions desperate to enter.
Center-left and center-right parties are losing ground in European elections because they are seen as feckless in meeting what more and more indigenous Europeans believe to be an existential threat — mass migration from across the Med.
Japan's population has ceased to grow, and each year brings fewer toddlers into its schools. Yet Tokyo resists the racial and ethnic diversity greater immigration would bring. Why, if diversity is a strength?
What South Koreans dream of is uniting again with the 22 million separated members of their national family who live in the North, but share the same history and blood.
This summer, in its Basic Law, Israel declared itself an ethnonational state and national home of the Jewish people. African migrants crossing the Sinai to seek sanctuary in Israel are unwelcome.
Consider China, which seeks this century to surpass America as the first power on earth. Does Xi Jinping welcome a greater racial, ethnic and cultural diversity within his county as, say, Barack Obama does in ours?
In his western province of Xinjiang, Xi has set up an archipelago of detention camps. Purpose: Re-educate his country's Uighurs and Kazakhs by purging them of their religious and tribal identities, and making them and their children more like Han Chinese in allegiance to the Communist Party and Chinese nation.
Xi fears that the 10 million Uighurs of Xinjiang, as an ethnic and religious minority, predominantly Muslim, wish to break away and establish an East Turkestan, a nation of their own, out of China. And he is correct.
What China is doing is brutalitarian. But what China is saying with its ruthless policy is that diversity — religious, racial, cultural — can break us apart as it did the USSR. And we are not going to let that happen.
Do the Buddhists of Myanmar cherish the religious diversity that the Muslim Rohingya of Rakhine State bring to their country?
America has always been more than an idea, an ideology or a propositional nation. It is a country that belongs to a separate and identifiable people with its own history, heroes, holidays, symbols, songs, myths, mores — its own culture.
Again, where is the evidence that the more Americans who can trace their roots to the Third World, and not to Europe, the stronger we will be?
Is the Britain of Theresa May, with its new racial, religious and ethnic diversity, a stronger nation than was the U.K. of Lloyd George, which ruled a fourth of mankind in 1920?
Was it not the unity Bismarck forged among the diverse Germanic peoples, bringing them into a single nation under the Kaiser in 1871, that made Germany a far stronger and more formidable power in Europe?
Empires, confederations and alliances are multiethnic and multicultural. And, inevitably, their diversity pulls them apart.
The British Empire was the greatest in modern history. What tore it apart? Tribalism, the demands of diverse peoples, rooted in blood and soil, to be rid of foreign rule and to have their own place in the sun.
And who are loudest in preaching that our diversity is our strength?
Are they not the same people who told us that democracy was the destiny of all mankind and that, as the world's "exceptional nation," we must seize the opportunity of our global preeminence to impose its blessings on the less enlightened tribes of the Middle East and Hindu Kush?
If the establishment is proven wrong about greater diversity bringing greater strength to America, there will be no do-over for the USA.
Divide and conquer. It’s simple.
E Pluribus Unum!
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one's own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday's Diversity is today's intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
In years past I used a tagline: don't confuse US ciizens and Americans, they are not necessarily the same.
This article touches on that, in this sense.
Because we are a mongrel nation made up of different ethnic groups, cultures and religions, we don't have much in common.
This can be overcome if we all identify as being Americans , loving this country, wanting it to succeed and respecting it's Constitution. That's what keeps us together and is our strength.
We have tens of millions of legal US citizens that hate our country and want it to fail.
There seem to be more now and better organized and we have to deal with it, like it or not. - Tom
Maggie was a wise old gal!
“Diversity is our strength.”
Isn’t that like saying a phrase such as “War is peace”, etc.
I become weary of seeing senseless words and phrases that become popularized. Such as transparency, global warming, climate change, etc
I am pleased that Tucker has taken on the hypocrites who come up with these phrases
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M. Thatcher
Many, many years ago, with another man, I did a paper on the ethic groups of the U.S.S.$. There were one hundred and thirty-seven. (137).
The only kind of diversity that the loony left like are all all the different identity groups that fall for their BS and vote for them. Let’s face it, that’s what they’re really going for. In reality, I believe these white elite liberals despise minorities and see them as inferior and want dominion over them.
Too bad blacks can’t see through this patriarchy foisted on them.
Another of those popularized phrases that I deplore is:
“Love means never having to say ‘I’m sorry’”! The mantra of wife-beaters throughout the ages.
IMO, the only way diversity exists with violence along ethnic lines is when there is a government that crushes dissent.
Case in point, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Remove the government’s over-watch and all hell breaks loose.
Tribal/nationalistic behavior is the tendency of man. Always has been always will be.
And really cheesy movies like Love Story.
Austria-Hungarian empire. It’s diversity was a constant pain in the ass, having to put out fires here and there, when certain groups got insulted.
“Somalia? “
The Italians tried to diversify Libya and Somalia in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Diversity is strength = Orwell missed one.
Diversity means a robust labor supply.
“Diversity is where nations go to die.”
My husband and I took 2 of our kids to Chicago recently and we saw lots of diversity: every ethnicity you can think of, trash everywhere, drug addicts, tatted and pierced up losers, grown men walking around with their pants around their knees, etc. Later we took them to Aspen. What an unbelievable difference. Everyone was clean, well dressed, polite and 98% white. We saw one marijuana shop and there was no one in there but the line for the ice cream shop was wrapped around the building.
Actually, it didn't. Gorbachev dissolved the country on December 24, 1991, some months after a failed coup attempt by communist hardliners.
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