Another excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpt:
A university, for example, might highlight its “rich diversity” by pointing to gay students, female students, Punjabi students, Arab students, Korean students, and disabled students — even should they all come from quite affluent families and backgrounds. Key here was that “diversity” was admittedly cosmetic, or at least mostly to be distinguishable by the eye — skin color, gender, etc. — rather than internal and predicated on differences in political ideology or values. A Brown or an Amherst worried not at all that its classes included very few Mormons, libertarians, or ROTC candidates; instead, if the students looked diverse, but held identical political and social views, then in fact they were diverse.
In the end the only kind of diversity liberals care about is politically correct diversity. They are not really interested in diversity or in dissent or in civility. They hijack these terms and pilot them towards Left-coast destinations. They think they own these values. Same with accusations of racism. They think they have proprietary rights in this enterprise. So there is white racism but no black racism. It's nonsense, but that's a liberal for you.
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