As our southern neighbor, Mexico shows up quite a bit in US policy discussions. The problem is that all of those involve critique of how we deal with Mexico on specific issues, not an overview of the relationship between the United States and Mexico. If we examine it further, we can see how the United [...]
Posts Tagged ‘multiculturalism’
Why diversity self-destructs
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. The Second [...]
Meritocratic victimhood
For the past few decades, people have often asked a question perfectly fit for an age of pretend equality and forced tolerance. Where are our heroes? The archetypal eternal hero and villain in our midst have been replaced with social and biological group categories. The historically downtrodden groups are exalted and it is to this [...]
Ending the 20th century
The 20th century was the era in which an idea finally came to fruition. Borne of the transition of Christianity to Protestantism, developed under the mostly-secular Enlightenment, and thrust onto the world through the French evolution, the concept of contextless equality gained full force in the 20th century. The result was unmitigated, lugubrious disaster. Equality [...]
Diversity myth decomposes
A few hilarious news items showing us that the myth of diversity is on its way out: The Great Emancipator was almost the Great Colonizer: Newly released documents show that to a greater degree than historians had previously known, President Lincoln laid the groundwork to ship freed slaves overseas to help prevent racial strife in [...]
Racist? We’re not; multiculturalism is.
To conservatives, there is not a liberal/conservative divide. Conservative thought is proven thought, and liberalism is a social trend whereby people surrender their common sense to wishful thinking and, accordingly, destroy civilizations. Our goal is to look unflinchingly at the record of history, treating the whole world and its experience as our laboratory. We are [...]
Rethinking individualism
Say you walk into a building at which you’re employed. You feel businesslike – coat, computer bag over shoulder, maybe a cup of coffee or tea in hand. Others look similar and climb into the elevator with you. Buttons are pressed. Your eyes venture, but never into other eyes. Stainless steel walls in this contraption [...]
Diversity is destructive
If you watch Hollywood movies, they give clear advice to those pursued by another human: go hide in a crowd. Our current mania for diversity reflects the individual desire to hide in a crowd. If there’s a dominant ideology, then we can be seen as not participating in it. But if there’s no ideology, culture, [...]
How diversity kills
In Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press), Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn report that military units were more cohesive if they were composed of men who looked, voted, and worshiped like one another. Diverse units, meanwhile, did not fare as well. All else equal, soldiers were less likely [...]
