The favorite motto of the modern left is "Diversity is our strength." Its a nonsensical statement without meaning. Things that bring strength? Courage, Honor, Tenacity, Dedication. These virtues are dismissed as "toxic masculinity" by the left.
No they are not. The people you see screaming this BS on the streets aren't 'leftists' and do not understand women's rights. In fact they are against women having actual rights just as 'freedom' lovers often are.
Neither left nor right has ever been especially concerned about women's rights. Men on the left see women as public property and men on the right see us as private property. Whoo hoo. Both have toxic traits.
However, this has been DARVO'd by men of all stripes who have no clue that women are actually human in the same sense men are.
The whole diversity movement is based on a fallacy that diverse groups have something unique to bring to the moral table, simply because they belong to a certain race or color and their perspective must be heard. This eliminates the glue that holds a society together. The West’s collective guilt over perceived past injustice’s led to special treatment of minorities. When the cure caused social upheaval, we attempted to return to more equal treatment for all (think merit, rule of law). The favored groups looked upon this change as taking away their “rights”, reducing their artificial uniqueness. You are seeing this in real time in Europe and the US. The one country that is relatively immune from this nonsense is Israel and they are thriving.
Millions of people in the West feel exactly this way. More than 50 percent of the American population feels this way. They are dismissed by the leftist multicultural ists as xenophobes and bigots.
If diversity makes a country better ( or even superior) is the inverse true: that non-diverse countries should be deemed less good? If so lets evaluate every country that is a UN member. And maybe then look at the data on a regional or continental basis. Lets factor in racial diversity as well as religious diversity. Will the "data" reveal that most non western nations are more or less diverse and what does any of this clap trap mean? Other than the word "diversity " is merely another psychologically manipulative term that the anti western world ( and western global elitists ) employ to exploit western ( read white) guilt to acquire or solidify their power?
That is very true. I like living g in a multi cultural society with a huge qualifier: that multi culturalism not be the tail that wags tbe dog. As it has been in much of europe for decades and has increa
increasingly been the case in the US as best seen with the open border of Biden and Obama
Thank you. I once worked in a city government office. There were some blacks, a large number from Central American countries, a large number from the Philipines, some American-born Chinese, and some foreign-born Chinese. As the White people had fled that very-liberal town decades ago, there were only a few Whites there. Everyone stuck to their own group, and avoided those in other groups.
Great article Josh! This one has an almost Emersonian quality - i.e., it’s filled with quotable aphorisms. Speaking of which, do you mind if I borrow some on occasion?
In the USA, "diversity" means men and White people need not apply. It is the Cultural Marxist takeover of society. George Orwell nailed it: "all the animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
It sounds great that Israel’s society is more coherent than more fragmented societies in the West, but Is there really a shared framework of meaning in Israel‘s society which is comprised of the majority Jewish population and the (20%?) Arab Muslim population and all the other minority populations within Israel? What binds all those different populations to feel they belong to Israel and share a common code of values?
Josh- I believe this is similar to what you’re saying, but just a point to clarify. Diversity can be a strength when we don’t limit membership in our community based on race, gender, ethnicity, and so forth, but rather we are open to anyone who wants to join our shared values or be part of our shared story. Diversity only becomes problematic when it becomes willy nilly inclusion, regardless of shared commitment or shared values.
The diversity movement in the United States is simply a scam meant to replace affirmative action, in order to diminish the value of merit and to make America weaker as a country against evil dictatorships like China and Russia.
Notice that the leftists never want diversity when it disfavors them. Diversity of political thought at universities? No. Diversity of nationalities, like Koreans, in the NBA? Never!
But diversity has been successfully used to institutionalize systemic discrimination against whites and Jews in universities like Harvard, UCLA and others. When merit was King, Jews comprised 25% of the Harvard student body. That has now been reduced to a token 2%.
In the name of globalism, universities in the United States seem more intent on educating foreign nationals, including Chinese students who funnel American intellectual property beck to the CCP, than on helping to maintain an American advantage. First, they admitted Arab leaders' children into our MBA programs, ensuring their future ability to extract as much money from America for their oil as their advanced models would suggest.
When it comes to diversity of language creating issues, one bed only like to Canada to see how the population is divided because they cannot mandate one single language. In the United States, where immigrants used to be drawn to want to learn English, knowing this was the shortest path to success, new immigrants feel entitled to insist on never having to learn English, enabled by ever-expending requirements by the left to make everything available in every language. I don't think they are empuje-ing numero ocho in China.
Years after the desegregation movement in the United States, studies have found that, despite nullification of restrictive, discriminatory covenants on land grants, people still favor living alongside other people of the same race.
Funny but before cheap s*it there were many black entrepreneurs who had thriving businesses. In the name of diversity but alo cheap stuff 😉 n stores all these entrepreneurs went out of business. Killer Mike has been trying to help resurrect small business.
One of the ironies of our current moment is that Diversity ideology is rooted in the Holocaust, which was the moral Big Bang of our modern universe, and which made discrimination against the Other the greatest of moral crimes and then gradually made xenophilia a new First Commandment.
As the West lost all its faiths—faith in god and religion, faith in nation and patriotism, faith in family and home and roots—a new ruling ideology was gradually crafted by culture (esp Hollywood and then the internet), academia and the global market. This was based on a few leftover scraps of Christianity—the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the equality of all humanity—the needs of our market states to maintain an infinite supply of cheap labor and the erasure of national borders for the convenience of capital flows and, maybe most importantly, the New Left's rehabilitation of Marxism, where the proletariat was replaced with a revolving cast of oppressed victims, all of them defined by the stigma once placed on them by the Christian West, and where the foundational moral commandment changes from "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to "From each according to his privilege, to each according to his oppression".
But because humans can't seem to do things in half-measures and because this new post-Christian post-Marxist ideology became the faith that filled so many god-shaped holes, we've let what was once a noble gesture turn into a social mania, where to be a Good Person in the West means to loathe your own people, culture and history and to have been conditioned into never saying NO to any request of anyone who is poor and brown/black, as they have now become sort of proxy Christ figures, suffering servants who teach us valuable moral lessons as long as we know to worship and obey them.
And then once again we come to the Jews and Israel: an ideology that was rooted in protecting them from the eternal scourge of anti-Semitism eventually (maybe inevitably) turned on them, for the same reason the Christians, Protestants, Marxists and Enlightenment atheists once turned on them: they refuse to dissolve their tribe and faith in the acid bath of modernity, where believing in borders and in protecting your own over distant strangers has become painted as redolent of Nazism and where another utopian future of a single global humanity is posited, once we get those pesky stubborn Jews (who keep refusing to be killed off) out of the way.
Diversity is a globalist, market-tested proxy faith designed for the lost souls of the 21st century internet age, which is why it's a mile wide but an inch deep and at bottom provides no real emotional or spiritual succor (if anything, quite the opposite). It's not surprising that this new faith has turned on Israel, but in the end being rooted to faith and nation is akin to coming from a loving 2-parent family—the other kids might be jealous and resentful now, but in the future Jews will still be here rooted in Torah and ritual while their enemies will die off, from either insanity and misery and/or sterility, of both the sexual and cultural varieties.
I so loved this. Finally, the word "commitment". The Jews have it, the rest of us, don't. Diversity, as a goal, has replaced it and so we struggle, piecemeal, and at each other's throats in competition, not in unity. Not in commitment to our shared shelter - our nation, but at odds over who wins the bigger fraction.
The favorite motto of the modern left is "Diversity is our strength." Its a nonsensical statement without meaning. Things that bring strength? Courage, Honor, Tenacity, Dedication. These virtues are dismissed as "toxic masculinity" by the left.
No they are not. The people you see screaming this BS on the streets aren't 'leftists' and do not understand women's rights. In fact they are against women having actual rights just as 'freedom' lovers often are.
Neither left nor right has ever been especially concerned about women's rights. Men on the left see women as public property and men on the right see us as private property. Whoo hoo. Both have toxic traits.
However, this has been DARVO'd by men of all stripes who have no clue that women are actually human in the same sense men are.
So much for the freedom of women.
Very well written. I hope that it will reach many readers.
I like this punchline:
"You cannot have freedom without order, and you cannot have order without shared norms."
I will add: Even Democracies need measures to protect themselves.
My local government has signs all over proclaiming "Diversity" which seems to mean they love everyone except *you people*.
Exactly.
The whole diversity movement is based on a fallacy that diverse groups have something unique to bring to the moral table, simply because they belong to a certain race or color and their perspective must be heard. This eliminates the glue that holds a society together. The West’s collective guilt over perceived past injustice’s led to special treatment of minorities. When the cure caused social upheaval, we attempted to return to more equal treatment for all (think merit, rule of law). The favored groups looked upon this change as taking away their “rights”, reducing their artificial uniqueness. You are seeing this in real time in Europe and the US. The one country that is relatively immune from this nonsense is Israel and they are thriving.
Yes. It is an insult to Martin Luther King's dream of being judged on the content of the character, not the color of the skin.
Millions of people in the West feel exactly this way. More than 50 percent of the American population feels this way. They are dismissed by the leftist multicultural ists as xenophobes and bigots.
If diversity makes a country better ( or even superior) is the inverse true: that non-diverse countries should be deemed less good? If so lets evaluate every country that is a UN member. And maybe then look at the data on a regional or continental basis. Lets factor in racial diversity as well as religious diversity. Will the "data" reveal that most non western nations are more or less diverse and what does any of this clap trap mean? Other than the word "diversity " is merely another psychologically manipulative term that the anti western world ( and western global elitists ) employ to exploit western ( read white) guilt to acquire or solidify their power?
Back in the 1970s, under President Carter, the Japanese Prime MInister told Carter, "We don't have your problems, as we are a monoracial society".
That is very true. I like living g in a multi cultural society with a huge qualifier: that multi culturalism not be the tail that wags tbe dog. As it has been in much of europe for decades and has increa
increasingly been the case in the US as best seen with the open border of Biden and Obama
Thank you. I once worked in a city government office. There were some blacks, a large number from Central American countries, a large number from the Philipines, some American-born Chinese, and some foreign-born Chinese. As the White people had fled that very-liberal town decades ago, there were only a few Whites there. Everyone stuck to their own group, and avoided those in other groups.
Yes, in my opinion the "diversity" is just an anti western sentiment (or maybe oikophobia) expressed in more veiled, prettified way.
Great article Josh! This one has an almost Emersonian quality - i.e., it’s filled with quotable aphorisms. Speaking of which, do you mind if I borrow some on occasion?
In the USA, "diversity" means men and White people need not apply. It is the Cultural Marxist takeover of society. George Orwell nailed it: "all the animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
It sounds great that Israel’s society is more coherent than more fragmented societies in the West, but Is there really a shared framework of meaning in Israel‘s society which is comprised of the majority Jewish population and the (20%?) Arab Muslim population and all the other minority populations within Israel? What binds all those different populations to feel they belong to Israel and share a common code of values?
Josh- I believe this is similar to what you’re saying, but just a point to clarify. Diversity can be a strength when we don’t limit membership in our community based on race, gender, ethnicity, and so forth, but rather we are open to anyone who wants to join our shared values or be part of our shared story. Diversity only becomes problematic when it becomes willy nilly inclusion, regardless of shared commitment or shared values.
The diversity movement in the United States is simply a scam meant to replace affirmative action, in order to diminish the value of merit and to make America weaker as a country against evil dictatorships like China and Russia.
Notice that the leftists never want diversity when it disfavors them. Diversity of political thought at universities? No. Diversity of nationalities, like Koreans, in the NBA? Never!
But diversity has been successfully used to institutionalize systemic discrimination against whites and Jews in universities like Harvard, UCLA and others. When merit was King, Jews comprised 25% of the Harvard student body. That has now been reduced to a token 2%.
In the name of globalism, universities in the United States seem more intent on educating foreign nationals, including Chinese students who funnel American intellectual property beck to the CCP, than on helping to maintain an American advantage. First, they admitted Arab leaders' children into our MBA programs, ensuring their future ability to extract as much money from America for their oil as their advanced models would suggest.
When it comes to diversity of language creating issues, one bed only like to Canada to see how the population is divided because they cannot mandate one single language. In the United States, where immigrants used to be drawn to want to learn English, knowing this was the shortest path to success, new immigrants feel entitled to insist on never having to learn English, enabled by ever-expending requirements by the left to make everything available in every language. I don't think they are empuje-ing numero ocho in China.
Years after the desegregation movement in the United States, studies have found that, despite nullification of restrictive, discriminatory covenants on land grants, people still favor living alongside other people of the same race.
"people still favor living alongside other people of the same race."
something only an academic or a journalist would deny, all while living surrounded by people just like them.
Look at the Brits for a perfect example. They allow pedophilic rape gangs to flourish all in the name of diversity. Can a people get any lower?
Funny but before cheap s*it there were many black entrepreneurs who had thriving businesses. In the name of diversity but alo cheap stuff 😉 n stores all these entrepreneurs went out of business. Killer Mike has been trying to help resurrect small business.
One of the ironies of our current moment is that Diversity ideology is rooted in the Holocaust, which was the moral Big Bang of our modern universe, and which made discrimination against the Other the greatest of moral crimes and then gradually made xenophilia a new First Commandment.
As the West lost all its faiths—faith in god and religion, faith in nation and patriotism, faith in family and home and roots—a new ruling ideology was gradually crafted by culture (esp Hollywood and then the internet), academia and the global market. This was based on a few leftover scraps of Christianity—the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the equality of all humanity—the needs of our market states to maintain an infinite supply of cheap labor and the erasure of national borders for the convenience of capital flows and, maybe most importantly, the New Left's rehabilitation of Marxism, where the proletariat was replaced with a revolving cast of oppressed victims, all of them defined by the stigma once placed on them by the Christian West, and where the foundational moral commandment changes from "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to "From each according to his privilege, to each according to his oppression".
But because humans can't seem to do things in half-measures and because this new post-Christian post-Marxist ideology became the faith that filled so many god-shaped holes, we've let what was once a noble gesture turn into a social mania, where to be a Good Person in the West means to loathe your own people, culture and history and to have been conditioned into never saying NO to any request of anyone who is poor and brown/black, as they have now become sort of proxy Christ figures, suffering servants who teach us valuable moral lessons as long as we know to worship and obey them.
And then once again we come to the Jews and Israel: an ideology that was rooted in protecting them from the eternal scourge of anti-Semitism eventually (maybe inevitably) turned on them, for the same reason the Christians, Protestants, Marxists and Enlightenment atheists once turned on them: they refuse to dissolve their tribe and faith in the acid bath of modernity, where believing in borders and in protecting your own over distant strangers has become painted as redolent of Nazism and where another utopian future of a single global humanity is posited, once we get those pesky stubborn Jews (who keep refusing to be killed off) out of the way.
Diversity is a globalist, market-tested proxy faith designed for the lost souls of the 21st century internet age, which is why it's a mile wide but an inch deep and at bottom provides no real emotional or spiritual succor (if anything, quite the opposite). It's not surprising that this new faith has turned on Israel, but in the end being rooted to faith and nation is akin to coming from a loving 2-parent family—the other kids might be jealous and resentful now, but in the future Jews will still be here rooted in Torah and ritual while their enemies will die off, from either insanity and misery and/or sterility, of both the sexual and cultural varieties.
Brilliant, perfect! Thank you Josh! 💪🏻
I so loved this. Finally, the word "commitment". The Jews have it, the rest of us, don't. Diversity, as a goal, has replaced it and so we struggle, piecemeal, and at each other's throats in competition, not in unity. Not in commitment to our shared shelter - our nation, but at odds over who wins the bigger fraction.