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Diversity Fetish

So many people always scream that word ‘diversity,’ as if it’s the only idea that we should ever see. Yet more and more the shouting comes off as childish, more and more I think they have a harmful fetish. To start with they only will care about external stuff, meaningless pigment in the skin, cried about oh-so-much. As if protection from the sun was a valid way to judge, as if such arbitrary groupings are not recycled Klan sludge. Seriously, just take two men, one dark-skinned, one light, both raised in safe suburbs, unafraid to walk at night, both went on to be engineers, and earned master’s degrees, both hired for the same division, designing new PCs. Am I supposed to look, and think there is much difference? That one of them must be better because of their pigment? That one is morally superior, or somehow gets the win simply because, arbitrarily, they were born with different skin? Skin doesn’t really matter much when dealing with the mind, so to give out favors for it is garbage, out-of-line. I don’t doubt those engineers are quite different, they’re two separate individuals, by unique routes they went. I think there lies the problem with all this ‘diverse’ talk, it treats people like collectives, ignores the paths we walk. Ignores the stupidity of skin, variation of the brain, tries to make ‘many’ of the ‘one,’ which is bloody insane. Even the word ‘diversity,’ carries no moral weight, it simply describes difference, says nothing of love or hate. Jihadists have a philosophy, different then our own, embrace that for ‘diversity,’ and away you might be blown. And does not exclusion have a big role to play? Would evolution have made it, if it had nothing to say? Do you not exclude a stranger from where your family lives? Do we not exclude pedophiles from places filled with kids? And fact is that many colors neither fail, nor improve, it’s the ideas within the mind society needs to use, and yet diversity of thought is the one type they hate, on our college campuses they won’t even tolerate an idea with which they disagree, they will violently attack, after eight decades the Brownshirts have made a comeback. The only sort of diversity that’s worthwhile to have is pilloried by professors who all think freedom bad. But lies don’t change reality, give them no credence, judging people one at a time, that's the way to make sense. If you’re tired of the nonsense, if you want and end to it, reject this shallow ‘diversity,’ cheer competence and merit.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 7/18/2020 12:17:00 PM
Extremely intuitive to point out flaw in contemporary banner. I find similar frustration when I hear people (on radio) repeatedly refer to themselves and their art as serving 'people of colour'. Divisive language, which ironically is used in context of protesting racism.
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David Welch
Date: 7/19/2020 10:42:00 AM
Yeah, there's and amazing amount of projection in the 'social justice' horde. I liked to reply with 'is beige not a color?' or 'I'm a person of pallor, respect that you bigot!' or something to that effect.

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