tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2129283806610023833..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Diversity = Catch-22Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-7362276350704833272015-01-16T00:07:19.265-06:002015-01-16T00:07:19.265-06:00Of course “diversity” is working. It’s just that m...Of course “diversity” is working. It’s just that most people mistake what the goal of the people implementing diversity training desire (not the rank-and-file dupes, but the people behind it all) for the betterment of the nation. If the goal is national strength and individual competence, self-reliance, and respectability then it’s obviously a colossal failure, but if you postulate “Cloward-Piven” then it is a major success. Either the people at the top are all total idiots who are utterly unable to see the obvious facts of reality right before their eyes, or they see that reality and are all but rubbing their hands like Monty Burns at the opportunities coming down the pike.<br /><br />Where you see different people working together to achieve common goals, you are stipulating the existence of common goals. I see radically different populations with not just different clothes, languages, and melanin content, they have radically different goals and values. It’s like “how do you compromise with a rapist? He only sticks it half-way in?” How does caseworker find the common ground between the welfare rat and the hard worker, when the government hack’s job depends on maintaining dependency?<br /><br />The left defines people via identity politics, in order to divide and weaken them, sow distrust, and bring down the strong much more than building the weak. Critical theory is all about criticizing, never about proposing or implementing actual testable or effective solutions. The left labels, groups, and "out-groups" the strong, the independent, and those that just want to be left alone to marginalize them, while trying to force them to support the failures, the weak, and the toxic.<br /><br />Most libertarians don't care about skin color or what church you go to, they DO care what you do and what your associates do. If you can't police your own, then, well, someone else might have to do it for you.....Rolfhttp://www.thestarscameback.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30718463583239330832015-01-15T14:19:26.432-06:002015-01-15T14:19:26.432-06:00Well put, indeed. One of the challenges of freedom...Well put, indeed. One of the challenges of freedom is not the sometimes necessity of eradicating a threat, though I will admit, if only for the sake of argument, that such a necessity can exist. Rather, true freedom requires that I be willing to allow others to be free as well. To do so, I have to think in terms of individuals rather than groups. I find it interesting, and more than a little distressing, that some our more conservative bloggers and pundits will decry the liberal tendency to think and speak in terms of groups when there has been some domestic gun related tragedy, only to do the same thing when some outrage has been committed by a group claiming to do so in the name of Islam. Consistency is such an elusive target, it seems...RMhttps://retiredmustang62.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com