What is so Great About Diversity?

Diversity is our strength. You hear this, or countless variations on the same idea, incessantly. I, at any rate, work at an Australian university where the extent to which leadership pushes this idea can indeed be described as incessant, even rivaling the propaganda level of a totalitarian state. But even outside the hallowed halls of the impartial, politically balanced academic world (did I write that with a straight face?), the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow ensures a stronger balance, a more cohesive society, or simply better results is ubiquitous in contemporary democracies committed to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Of course, those spouting this ‘diversity is a miracle cure’ drivel never substantiate that claim. They never tell us exactly how ‘diversity’ makes society better, richer, or more united. We are expected to take it all on faith, as it were. We simply have to believe the elites of the bureaucratic, political, and diverse professional bodies that propagate this line, and believe it simply because It is they who tell us that it is so.

But you and I both know that there is not much evidence to support this cliché. Worse still, if you are like me, you think that these are the same elites who abandoned us en masse by imposing violent, illiberal lockdowns that used the police as a weapon, closed schools, suppressed all kinds of criticism of freedom of speech, and also transferred enormous wealth from poor to rich and from young to old (think of asset inflation after the massive printing of money and uncontrolled government spending). You remember that these are the same elites who likewise abandoned us by being unwilling to stand up against a transgender madness lobby that ensures people with an IQ above 130 are not allowed to say what a woman is. The same elites, too, who abandoned us by abandoning all skepticism and critical thinking regarding our changing climate, and willingly impoverishing us with the blatant lie that sustainable energy is cheaper overall. Just like me, you wonder how likely it is that these same people are right about anything. Hint: not very big. And certainly not very big that they are right about some maternal slogan intended to silence the debate on large-scale immigration and on their attempts to remove merit from all decisions regarding recruitment and ‘who goes to university’. This strongly resembles one of those Mark Twain situations where you are quietly forced to ‘believe what you know isn’t so’, writes 
Dr. James Allan .

But let us resist the temptation to mock the cliché that ‘diversity is our strength’ and think about it a little more carefully. We all know, for example, that a little genetic diversity in parents is better for that couple’s offspring. All things considered, we prefer to prevent siblings, or even cousins, from mating. The inbreeding of some former European royal families, where disappearing chins were the norm, is not desirable for most people. Yet, the amount of genetic diversity needed to produce healthy children is quite small. Anyone outside the immediate family is good enough. The same culture? Check. The same commitment to Western civilization? Check. The same belief in freedom of speech and the role of women? Check again. Just don’t sleep with your sister. So if that is what was meant by all the propaganda about the delights of diversity, then I think we can all stand behind that. (Well, I hesitate to speak for Tasmanians, people from Arkansas, or readers from the Catlins south of Dunedin in New Zealand, but readers get the general point.)

On the other side of the equation, we know that the best combat units often come from the same geographical area. Just look at how the British Army used to recruit soldiers. Closer bonds mean a greater willingness to put your life on the line for someone else. Or ask yourself if you believe that hiring personnel ‘in the name of diversity’ has lowered physical standards when it comes to combat troops, firefighters rescuing people from burning houses, or police officers on the street. It certainly seems that when physical strength is a core part of the job, proponents of hiring women start with the promise that not a single standard will be lowered, but that we eventually—you guessed it—get lower standards for women. Is that really a strength? Who do you want to carry you out of a burning house or fight the criminal attacking you on the street? (Incidentally, the biggest lie Hollywood tells in its movies is that a woman weighing around 55 kilos can defeat a robber or rapist weighing 90 kilos. That is a complete lie.)

It gets even worse because the entire edifice of ‘diversity’ (often mentioned in the same breath as ‘equality’ and ‘inclusion’) is riddled with contradictions. We are sold the idea that proponents of diversity welcome everyone in their midst. It doesn’t matter what you contribute. But if you doubt the value of diversity itself? Then you’re out. Just look at the enormous pressure for ‘diversity, equality, and inclusion’ at universities. Do you know which people have disappeared from our universities? Conservatives. The people who are skeptical of this anti-meritocratic worldview of ‘equality of outcome’. They don’t get hired. Promotions are harder. The data on this is astounding. A recent report that looked at political donations and responses to surveys regarding the political views of academics reported that not a single Republican academic worked at Yale. Not one! And do you remember the Voice campaign here? We have about 38 law faculties. There were four legal scholars across the country who publicly opposed the Voice, and countless others who were in favor of it.

Diversity always and everywhere comes down to diversity in skin color or type of reproductive organs, or other privileged hereditary group characteristics. But it is never, ever about promoting diversity in political or ideological views. And if you are opposed to, let’s say, programs of the type affirmative action for women, Aboriginals, non-heterosexuals, or anyone who thinks they were born in the wrong body (a nonsensical claim, by the way), well, then you are not welcome. Period. And the facts regarding who is employed and reaches the top show that this is clearly true.

If some people now claim that White working-class men are the most discriminated against group, that seems certainly true to me when we talk about who gets special scholarships, who gets special support, who gets silent, unspoken help with hiring. Hint: Australian universities do not have explicit quotas. No. Instead, they look at a dean’s department, measure the percentage of privileged – and only privileged – groups in society as a whole and then within the department, and make the success of the dean’s performance review dependent on reaching an agreement. The incentives are ruthless but indirect. And all this already existed and got worse under nine years of coalition governments. It is difficult to claim with a straight face that the Liberals ever fight for anything, tackle vested interests, or repeal unwanted legislation. Hence, mes amis , the rise of One Nation.

That is the truth. Diversity divas sow division. They shun and exclude non-believers in the name of the tasteless faith they propagate. Deep down, they do not believe in merit (except, ironically, their own merit, because those who impose implicit quotas remarkably all believe that they themselves got to where they are now through merit). This whole mantra of diversity (and equality and inclusion) is a disaster.

https://www.frontnieuws.com/wat-is-er-zo-geweldig-aan-diversiteit