Diversity is The Most Important Thing public schools teach

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Diversity is The Most Important Thing public schools teach, Eric Falkenstain laments:

In theory, diversity is about accepting people different than you; in practice diversity means those who ignore diversity have more moral clout. Thus, my kid’s schools do not have little birthday celebrations (eg, cupcakes) anymore because the new Somalis don’t celebrate birthdays, and we wouldn’t want to implicitly single them by having birthdays as was done for years. No one can mention this sucks in public, however, without being called in intolerant bigot, and as we all know, diversity is The Most Important Thing public schools teach.

Or a bunch of Hasidim move to a small town in Iowa to run a kosher meat packing plant (and hire illegal immigrants at $5/hour), avoiding the locals in their social activities and in schools, referring to them as shiksas and goyim, and the locals, not the new asocial group, needed to learn to ‘understand and respect each other’s differences’.

An institution that employs a bunch of autistic types is ‘diverse’, even though no individual who works there is accepting of diversity except management.

Thus, diversity is about acceptance when you are passive or ‘leading’, but for those who are not considerate about existing mores or who are doing, it’s a pretext for being insular.

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