[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: The diversity scam

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
The diversity scam
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1183299355.shtml


   As everyone knows, once the dubious morality, and logic, of basing
   solutions to problems caused by ugly racial distinctions on the
   enshrinement and legalization of more racial distinctions became
   obvious and its constitutionality simply impossible to defend,
   politicians and race hustlers changed their tune to the "diversity"
   song. Astonishingly, many courts followed them there, taking the
   position that racial quotas, set-asides and preferences were worth the
   offense to the Constitution, much less common sense and civility,
   because of a never-proved axiom that something called diversity was a
   social desideratum of the highest order.

   Of course this was pure imagination, or worse, as [1]Neo points out:

   That brings us, however, to my third point. Recently [2]there has been
   some interesting research indicating that, in the short-and even the
   medium-term, increasing diversity ends up fostering problems more
   often than not. Well-known Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam,
   the author of Bowling Alone, has found over five years of research
   that: â¦immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and
   medium-term influence on the social capital, fabric of associations,
   trust, and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. He
   fears that his work on the surprisingly negative effects of diversity
   will become part of the immigration debate, even though he finds that
   in the long run, people do forge new communities and new ties.

   This conforms almost exactly with my observations, but thereâs more.
   Diversity leads to a general lack of trust and withdrawal from
   community activity, a kind of âhunkering downâ effect, lower
   confidence and investment in community, less charitable giving, lower
   happiness. This is true whatever the economic level of the community
   is, by the way.

References

   1. http://neoneocon.com/2007/06/28/what-price-diversity/
   2. http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-06-25jl.html