The opposition we have voiced here towards the sectarianian agenda of the Navy's Diversity Bullies is just our part of a much larger socio-political scam.

The nastier side effects of the Diversity Industry we have all seen, but for better or worse, it is good to see that it isn't just the Navy's issue - but one of our larger society. Running parallel to our arguments here over the years, Victor Davis Hanson wraps it up well. Read it all.

For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story. For decades now universities have depended on the superficially non-white “other†to fulfill and tout their “commitment to diversity†and their doctrine of “multiculturalism.†Meanwhile, the only diversity that counts, the diversity of minds and points of view, is ignored. Instead, the rigid leftist ideology of American historical wickedness and oppression is imposed on the presumed bastions of truth and free minds.

 

The phoniness of such “diversity†is evident on multiple levels. Warren’s ploy is not that much more egregious than the thousands of Caucasians with Hispanic surnames who pass as minorities in American universities. White Chileans, Argentines, and Mexicans come to American colleges and are transformed into “Chicanos,†a category that has little reality outside a college campus. Hiring Basques or Spaniards counts as increasing “diversity,†even though they have nothing culturally in common with the mestizo or Indian children of farm-workers. So too African or Caribbean blacks are hired not because they bring the unique perspective of their homelands to their intellectual work or teaching, but because they count as “black,†and thus are assumed to have some mystical connection with American black students and their cultural identity, which owes much more to American culture and history than to African.

 

Of course, socio-economic differences among American minorities are also ignored in the rush to promote diversity. A Mexican-American dentist’s or schoolteacher’s daughter who never cut a grape or washed a dish supposedly has some special insight into poor or working-class Mexicans. A light-skinned black son of college-educated parents who grew up in the suburbs gets to campus and suddenly has a rapport with the “brothers†and their experiences. An upper class Chinese is thought to be better able to relate to anyone designated by the meaningless category “Asian-American,†which obscures the fundamental differences and histories of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thais, Laos, Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Hmong. The social capital that comes from education and wealth and that is used to define “white-skin privilege†suddenly has no value when it comes to the equally privileged ethnic “other.â€

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This melodramatic history is the antithesis of the only diversity that counts, intellectual diversity, for it reduces a complex, variegated, universally flawed humanity into cardboard villains and victims. But the point of multiculturalism has never been “diversity.†If true diversity were the aim, then the university would promote the diversity of religion, region, socio-economic background, and most important intellect and philosophy. And that’s what “diversity†of the sort that allowed a blue-eyed, blonde Elizabeth Warren to pass as evidence of Harvard’s “commitment to diversity†is really about: imposing a leftist ideological conformity predicated on America’s historical crimes and sins.

As a side note, if you missed the Midrats interview with VDH - you can get it here.

 

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Outstanding piece by V.D.H.! I am so sick of the mamby-pamby experiement the US armed forces in general and the US Navy in particular has been subjected to over the last two-decades. Making efficency changes is very benefitial (these go along the line of diversity of intellect). Cultural and now bio-diversity are not only sought after they are worshipped. In reading the daily news of global navies, I could care the flip less that the CNO or MCPON gives a ra-ra speech celebrating whatever skin-color is celebrating a special month. I want them delivering a speech to inspire, something along the lines of George C. Scott in the opening moments of Patton.

I've been joking about the pirates in my daily NNSotD pieces. After reading today's diversity piece, I've had the ligh bulb moment about why the cockroaches (excuse me the pirates) have now become so prevalent in the 21st century. You want to know what the answer is (at least I think it is) ... They do not fear the navies arrayed against them. Until the USN and other significant democratic countries navies espouse excellence over diversity and they operate like forces to literally be feared, piracy will continue to proliferate and the cocroaches (excuse me the pirates) will continue to laugh at the puny efforts being undertaken to oppose them.

I'll dismount my soapbox now.