http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/a-skeptic-at-a-diversity-discussion/ The National Association of Scholars: For reasoned scholarship in a free society Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/a-skeptic-at-a-diversity-discussion/#comment-479 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:22:16 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1227#comment-479 Two very good comments already in this discussion. Brian, you are mature beyond your years and obviously destined for a future in politics. As a survivor of the diversity wars here at the University of Nebraska, I can only agree that “supple” is a kind description of the language of diversity. Old as I am, I have been through the 60s (equal civil rights), 70s and 80s (affirmative action), and 90s and 00s (diversity = blatant reverse discrimination). We had a successful campaign here to introduce a Civil Rights Initiative like California’s, prohibiting preferences, in 2008. The key is to keep the language focused on the question, “Why should an innocent young white male be discriminated against because someone once discriminated against someone else’s ancestors? Is every young white man guilty of something that they haven’t been told about?” You know, the diversity crowd has no answer for that. There isn’t one.

]]> http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/a-skeptic-at-a-diversity-discussion/#comment-464 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:59:39 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1227#comment-464 I think it’s important to join this, but make the point that the only true basis for respecting diversity comes from a classic liberal arts education. The standard approach is the text-bookish, emotional, preachy insistence that everyone MUST respect diversity — or else. In contrast, the soul educated in the great books LOVES diversity because he can see why it is beautiful and worth appreciating. Encompass the movement like Socrates listened to his critics, or Thomas Aquinas answered his own objections, or James Madison encircled the Anti-Fed’s; don’t just debunk it.

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