DIVERSITY 101: Commentary

©Bill Gnade/2005

The dialogue posted below (Conversing in the parking lot) has as its penultimate line: 'Celebrating diversity is the opiate of the people.' It is a dandy of a line, I think, though Karl Marx and his persistent followers may deem it otherwise. But there is something akin to an intellectual sedative in the pop literature promoting diversity therapy. Such literature in fact very much depresses the mind, though for a short moment one might be invigorated by the head-rush intended by diversity rhetoric: It just sounds so interesting; so stimulating; so very right.

The problem with 'Diversity Training' (which is what the Left is trying to foist on all of us, in workplace and public square) is that it wants to destroy diversity. It is not about celebrating differences, but obliterating them. It is about making humanity utterly monochromatic; all in the name of equality. On the one side, it is about fighting theistic ideas of Being, which are inherently heirarchical (God, not mankind, is at the top). On the other side, it is about fighting science, Darwinism, to be exact, as Darwin's theory of natural selection/survival of the fittest demands inequality among all living things. To the celebrants of diversity, only equality is wondrous.

Hence, the equal sign (=) is deployed by the Human Rights Campaign. You've seen it as a bumper sticker countless times, perhaps unaware that it signifies the bold assertion that homosexuality is EQUAL to heterosexuality. I've even seen the Human Rights Campaign banners, including its equal sign (=), draped all over the Unitarian Universalist Church in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

One wonders how so few people understand that if all people - their religion and their sexuality; their races and their ethnicities - are equal, then diversity is tossed out the window. One is left with nothing more than the rather dull effort to only see similarities (even where there are none); and to deny - or ignore - the differences that make humanity diverse, and each person, religion, culture and country unique. To be truly accurate, those who call for everyone to 'Celebrate Diversity' should really be shouting 'Celebrate Similarity!' That is the point of the dialogue posted below.

But if one should doubt my analysis, I offer this further argument. Most, if not all, celebrants of diversity not only want to establish equality on all fronts (by force, if necessary), diversity proponents the world over long for a day when there is no longer any such thing as the United Nations, but the United Nation: One world, one people, one government. That Unitarian Universalists, perhaps no greater advocates of diversity therapy in America, list 'World Community' as one of its religious ideals proves my argument (see note below). Which also proves that those who promote diversity want to destroy it: For there is hardly anything more hideously monochromatic, more hideously dull and homogeneous, than a world of one united nation.

Celebrating diversity is indeed the opiate of the people. Don't let it lull you into complacency. Defend differences. Things are not equal.

(The Unitarian Universalist Association website, UUA,org, lists under the tag 'About Us', a link to Unitarian Principles and Purposes. This is essentially the UUA creed [perhaps UUs would prefer to call it a mission statement]. Let me quote that creed: 'We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote ...
The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all'.)


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