[Lando Lincoln]

A departure from my usual posts. Had to break away from Iraq for awhile. A good, logical piece, I think.

Lando

[Mears]

Nice post! I just call it the "D"word it's become so overused.

[kcar]

Exactly what is "Diversity" and who authorized it as a legitimate priority in education, above reading, writing, and mathmatics? It sounds like recognition of biological collectives over the real diversity that respectfully occurs when people are individually free. Maybe the diversity programs should be referred to as biological collective presumptions and grudges that persist and are harbored by vote-gatherers for a very long time, while they think of other ideas that might actually qualify as ideas?

[MIgramma]

One could only wish!
President Bush did mention the "soft rascism" (or something like that) of low expectations. It seems to me that is relevent here.
To automatically grant someone special priviledges because of their race or sex is to scream that they are incompetant to achieve on their own.

[hollywood]

What school of ideas or specific thoughts can be attributed to just one race? If someone could prove that one race is the only race that can solve x, and that another race is the only race that can solve y, then there may be a case for diversity. However, since problem solvers come from all races, no one can say that diversity of thought and ideas is needed to spread ideas across races.

[Reactionary]

Thanks for posting this.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Yes, good piece. Diversity Bookmark

[Varda]

A good piece and he is right on. Racism is the belief that culture is inate. Diversity says that just because someone decends from a different ethnic group; he has a different culture. Enforced racism on campus makes college worse for minorities not better.

[hispanarepublicana]

Bookmarking

[Cosmo]

The supreme court should define diversity as religion, and thusly claim its disseminaion in the public sphere unconstitutional.

[oyez]

Its time to dump the race criteria. Diversity is the movement designed keep the country Balkinized and erase the country of it Eurropean & Judeo-Christian root. (As if we didn't already know that here at FR)

[Wavyhill]

The authors of the Michigan enrollment policy are no different from the Muslim who killed his fellow soldiers with a hand grenade.

[hollywood]

BTTT

[hollywood]

BTTT.

[Darheel]

"diversity" provides benefits compelling enough to justify using race as a criterion"---Compare with-

"All men are created equal"---or-

"...not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, I have a dream..."---or-

"...shall not discriminate based upon race, color, creed, etc..."

It seems pretty simple doesn't it?

[Fredgoblu]

Amen.

Except for, say, the "liberal" arts schools or the philosophy program at the UofM, diversity is a meaningless proposition.

-Does the speed of light or speed of sound in a vacuum vary according to your skin color?
-Are the basic building blocks of the DNA molecule any different in minority communities than they are in majority communities?
-Do the principles of differential calculus depend on how wealthy or poor your parents are?
-Are the economic laws of supply and demand any different in the 'hood than they are in white-bread suburbia?
-Does "Brown vs. the Board of Education" mean anything less to whites than it does to blacks?
-Do Grignard reagents work differently in Jesse Jackson's world than they do in the real world?
-Does Oboe fingering for an F differ in Detroit and Bloomfield Hills?
-What is the airspeed of an unladen Swallow?

I could continue, but...

We're talking fundamental laws, principles, rules, methods of derivation, and the basic thought process at most of the schools at the UofM. These ideas don't depend on your race, creed, sex, religion, or wealth. A diverse classroom doesn't change the underlying lesson AT ALL.

[Tamzee]

Well stated, thanks!

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[fieldmarshaldj]

*Bump*

[hollywood]

BFYI.