Diversity Is Bunk

[rangerrebew]

June 14, 2017
Diversity Is Bunk
By Richard F. Miniter

I attended one of the premier educational institutions in the United States in the nineteen fifties: P.S. 104 on the corner of 95th Street and Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It’s still there. But as Dr. Thomas Sowell said about one he attended in those years, it might be the “same building” but it’s not the “same school.”

Despite the fact that my wonderful grandmother was a native Swedish speaker P.S. 104 didn’t feel compelled to celebrate my “heritage” the way it would today. They taught me where Sweden was because we studied geography (and don’t we wish our children still did) but not to put too fine a point on it, they knew I wasn’t growing up in Stockholm. I had a friend whose father was a senior NCO at the Fort Hamilton Army Base a few blocks away and nobody went lyrical about how he, just by being black and therefore “different”, enriched our educational experience either. I had another friend whose father had flown a Focke-Wulf 200 multi-engine bomber for the Luftwaffe during WWII and it goes without saying that there wasn’t a chance in hell of anybody applauding his antecedents. Or for that matter the fact that another’s father was deputy something-or-other at the Yugoslav mission to the United Nations, another’s a survivor of the Holocaust or maybe just up from Puerto Rico with the family hoping to start a better life.

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[rangerrebew]

George Washington said almost the same thing in his Farewell Address over 200 years ago.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Diversity only came about after Affirmative Action finally became open into the public view and was rejected.

It is indeed the absolute worst thing for America.

Forcing one to accept all different types to 'become stronger' actually makes this country weaker.

Speaking different languages instead of a common language is a recipe for disaster.

Accepting all disturbed viewpoints like LBGT, Practices under Sharia Law, demean and undercut our Judeo-Christian heritage.

Forcing onto companies less qualified people just because they are different breaks down our competitiveness.

Get rid of hypnenated people types, languages other than English, and do not submit to disturbing lifestyles as legitimate.

[catfish1957]

Back in the early '90's I remember having to endure a whole week of Corporate I & D (Inclusion and Diversity) Training.

Bunk is the word.  Performance evaluations were expected to be tempered in a manner that took account gender and background.

Not to mention manager's appraisals were to include how well they did on on "Operation Bootstrap". (as I called it to myself)

The dumbing down of America had gotten into second gear.

[Fishrrman]

"Diversity is our strength"

...Fits right in, doesn't it?

[Bigun]

Back in the early '90's I remember having to endure a whole week of Corporate I & D (Inclusion and Diversity) Training.

Bunk is the word.  Performance evaluations were expected to be tempered in a manner that took account gender and background.

Not to mention manager's appraisals were to include how well they did on on "Operation Bootstrap". (as I called it to myself)

The dumbing down of America had gotten into second gear.

LOL!  I recall being asked to leave a couple of such meetings.  Just couldn't grasp the concept and was too old to learn.