The Diversity Lie

Diversity is a code word. Everyone has to be in favor of diversity, or risk being called nasty names.
If the true meaning of the word is that we all need to respect each other, regardless of our race or religion or economic background, then it's a worthy concept. But if you listen to the thought police who currently define the word, you'll find out that it is just a big lie.

Diversity is one-sided. Today's definition of diversity is absolute support and embrace of gay rights, with hatred and vilification of any people of faith that have the temerity to suggest it's not a healthy lifestyle. Another definition is that we must embrace and respect diverse religions, except of course Christianity and Judaism, which can be vilified freely. Diversity means that immigrants should not be forced to learn English or be folded into the great American "melting pot", but should join their homogeneous communities that don't embrace American language, culture, or values.

And, of course, diversity means opposing the government, especially if it's Republican. It means fomenting communist, anarchist, socialist, and other anti-American political views. It means suppressing any sort of conservative thought in the Universities, to the point of banning conservative student groups or in extreme cases expelling students who simply voice an opinion they deem "anti-diversity".

I saw an article today about a group of University Professors who have joined some other far-left organizations to fight back against David Horowitz's campaign for a "College Student's Bill of Rights". This new group claims to be fighting against Horowitz's repressive ideas that will stifle diversity of thought in the Universities.

That's funny, because Horowitz's campaign is all about diversity of thought. He's not saying that the communist college professors should shut up about their views. He's actually saying that those professors should stop punishing students that don't subscribe to those views. Plus that a half-hour diatribe with the tired old "Bush sucks" and "Bush is Hitler" rhetoric is probably not appropriate in an English or Math class; if you're going to have political discourse, save it for the political science, current affairs, and similar classes in which the topic is actually relevant.

Parents like me who are being hammered with outrageous tuition and fees for college-age kids don't want to hear that their kids are sitting in their English or Math or Science classes getting some communist indoctrination instead of what we're paying for them to study. Fortunately I don't think there's much of that going on with my two collegians.

If you're really sold on the concept of diversity, let me make just one request. Go right ahead and respect people of all races, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, and political views as much as you like. But do just that - respect them all! Don't exclude those whose diverse opinions and lifestyles you disdain.

I'll bet that's hard for you, isn't it? Still believe in the lefty definition of diversity?