34 Replies to “What’s The Opposite Of “Diversity”?”

  1. So the problem is that university is a Marxist Leninist organization. The solution is that none of the non Marxist Leninist professors offer an opinion contrary to the Marxist Leninist orthodoxy? Isn’t that what Jesus referred to as ‘hiding your light under a bushel basket’? Sounds like the author has been well trained in the Conservative school of “Don’t hit me!”.

  2. University grads are one of the fastest growing sectors of the unemployed. I could be wrong on that, but other than liberal governments, who wants those damaged young people in their organizations anyway? They don’t much and don’t really know how to do anything of much value.
    If we remain a free (but not so open) society, the market of ideas will eventually swing back to some degree of reality which means conservative values ….. Then my people will be free!

  3. Yes, the schools and universities of the nations are the bastions of free speech, if you are progressive.

  4. This is so familiar. I go through the same at work only they know I’m conservative. I just avoid politics until something arises that just pushes my button til I have to respond. We really don’t live in a free speech society here unless you tow the line of socialism. The left makes such an issue of the “hate” of the right when in reality the hate spews from the left and since Barry was elected they have been free to castigate conservatism at every opportunity. The visceral hatred of PMSH is indicative of the response of the left. He is probably left of most of the Democrats in the US but still harbours a “hidden agenda”. What has happened to us all? To quote a brave American ” can’t we all just get along?” Apparently not. The indoctrination of the youth of the west by the socialist liberal teachers in public schools and university will be the death of our society. Oh to have a politician like David Cameron who has the cojones to speak the truth, although it remains to be seen whether it will lead anywhere.

  5. “I remember the nervous moment (for both of us) where he finally came out and asked me, “so what are your political / economic beliefs?”
    If this reflects campus life today then this is a lot scarier post than the one about Kimmi and Veronica’s indifference the geopolitical implications of the unrest in Egypt or tree octopi.
    “I prefer to work in a friendly environment. … I don’t want to be the one who speaks at meetings while everyone else rolls their eyes and exchanges meaningful glances.”
    This guy is worried about eye rolls and meaningful glances! What would he do if he was threatened with mangos in syrup, passion fruit, or a banana, let alone a pointed stick?

  6. This is a good bit: “A reader emails: “…is such an account more likely to spark new tolerance for conservatives by the left in academia or a witch hunt to identify the conservative heretics?”
    That’s a no brainer. Witch hunt! Leftist academics have no tolerance whatsoever. That’s the main reason they hate and fear Conservatives, they imagine Conservatives will behave as they do!

  7. “This guy is worried about eye rolls and meaningful glances!”
    No, that’s only the open reaction to his views,behind the scenes,he will be quietly ostracized,left out of any consideration for promotion or membership in any committees.
    Most people socialize with their fellows at work,and it wouldn’t be very pleasant to be the outcast never invited to a social event. I don’t blame the conservatives who keep their political views in the closet in the academic world.
    They are very much in the minority.

  8. Well on this topic i am proud to live in alberta.
    I work in an environment where i have a checkoslovakian jew hating socialist marx loving freak he blames everything on the jews.Literally, i had a debate with him (he is a good freind) i asked him “so how did the jews decide who would win the super bowl?.He replied they don’t give a sh!t who wins, it is how much money they can make off the rich dumb americans at the concession stands, and the t-shirt parllors lol.
    He went on and on he think’s the jews run the world and he think’s the jews are plotting the muslims against the christians so they can stand back and watch them destroy each other. Mean while little isreal get’s to play the poor me help me america card using american arms to protect themselves . It goes on and on and on …he can and will at any moment explain how the jews control you from the craddle to the grave, how we are all slaves who pay them specifically through our taxes, and i laugh and i tell him so many thing’s that are contrary to his beleifs. Why is soros a jew hating jew with a passion for marxism? his answer,he is still a jew right? He say’s left or right it doesn’t matter they want to control it all …lol… from what you eat to the car you drive ..he beleives jews in canada do not get speeding ticket’s ,or parking fines, nothing Ohh and get this he is a catholic to boot non practicing that is why he is the way he is .
    This is true i swear,but by the same token he hates big sis,but also beleives unversity and college should be free. I throw it back to him and he say’s well a shoe maker makes the shoe’s for the doctor and the doctor makes his little shoemaker healthy and the steel worker work’s the steel for the car maker and everyone drives the same car and everyone is equal and no one makes more than anyone else.. bla bla bla lbal…lol.
    ANYway sorry i got off on a tanjent the reason i love my workplace is i work along side several christian (catholic,penticostal,lutheran,baptist) people and as well we have one muslim that wroks there to (who loves the calgary flames and team canada pretty cool guy) we have a libertarian athiest who is brutally outspoken very well versed in our canadian laws and such he is also a prepper.We all have different political views and we all challenge each other openly and respectfully except the muslim (i will get to this later) we have liberal and conservatives fortunatly the conservatives at my workplace far far far out number the liberal ndp and all the rest by acount of probly 5 to 0ne.
    I have openly argued and debated in front of bosses and managers my position and why i am a conservative and what i beleive and at the end of the day we do and we have all gone out for a beer and a laugh (no politics or religion) and just a great time wing night type stuff. It depends on who you are or well where you are in this country. The point i am making weather or not it is acceptable to do this or not is not my point it is the fact that we all have a microphone at work and we use it even the liberal people know it is in there best intrest to listen and yes i have braught a few over to my side through debates and really when you break it down they actually have no leg’s to stand on because everytime they yammer on about free this and free that i just say well how about this my daughter needs a nanny will you just sign your check over to me this week ? they all say no then i ask well then how can you befor our govornment doing this to you and me they say well it is different i say how ? they say spread out over 34 million people it is easy so again i say how is it easy and if it is then you give me your cheqe and we will skip the middle man(govornment) …usually it is a kind of deer in the headlight’s moment then i finish up with saying this ….remember once your 18 no body not one person in this world owes you a damn thing not education not health care not cars, boat’s ,cloathes food,free internet, nothing zero ziltch do you get that ?
    Often times they do look like they have just been stripped naked of everything they hold dear and that goes for conservatives to we make huge assumtions about thing’s but the reality is if you look at it that way there are alot of very good nice people in this world who if they wanted to could leave you me or anyone high and dry but they/we don’t it is not right , not illigal just not right.
    I bug the athiest one day he asked me if i was gong upstairs for free pizza i told him i didn’t beleive in pizza he didn’t like that but i did and i laughed with my freind lol. i still laugh again he is a good person just lost just godless.
    As for my muslim friend i work with i asked him openly one day freely and openly and i told him he did not have to answer me ..i asked him where he stood with the whole middle east thing osama bin laden and all of that and he said it and yes i was shocked a great guy that i like and laugh with sides with osama ,and all of ” all of his brothers and sisters around the world ” with out even a youk now i think killing people is wrong nothing so i probed with one more question i asked do you think those people on 9/11 deserved that ? he said “i think there actions were justified but i feel bad that it happened”.
    right away nadal hassan popped into my head so i am a racist bigot islamophic jerk for assuming that but the truth is how would you feel ? To here that come from a co worker someone that i know was shocking . But i do not judge him and in fact i respect his honesty he really is a good guy but you can see what is happeneing to people who follow islam they are being corrupted right here in our own country by radical imams anyway this all happens at work on the clock ….and yes i truley beleive only in alberta can this happen ohh yeah the muslim guy is a conservative to . LOL .

  9. Most of my fellow conservatives might not appreciate this writer and strong critic of Israel Gilad Atzmon but he presents an interesting article about the political left.
    Left and Islam
    Thinking Outside the Secular Box
    “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” — Karl Marx 1843
    Before I launch into a disclosure of liberal and leftist delusional treatment of religions in general, and Islam in particular, I would like to share with you a bad racist joke. Beware; you may not want to share this short tale with your feminist friends.
    An American female activist who visited Afghanistan in the late 1990’s was devastated to find out that women were marching 15 ft behind their men. She soon learned from her local translator that this was due to some religious guidelines that ruled [this is the way we show] respect for the ‘head of the family’. Once back in America the devastated activist launched campaigns after campaigns for women’s rights in Afghanistan. As it happened, the same devoted activist visited Kabul last month. This time she was amazed to find a totally different reality. Women were actually marching 30 ft ahead of their husbands. The activist was quick to report to her headquarters in America: “The Women’s rights revolution is a great success here in Afghanistan. While in the past it was the man who marched in the front, now it is the woman who takes the lead.” Her Afghani translator, who overheard her report, took the activist aside and advised her that her interpretation was totally wrong. “The women” he said, “are walking in front because of the landmines.…”
    http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=19795

  11. “He will be quietly ostracized, left out of any consideration for promotion or membership in any committees…it wouldn’t be very pleasant to be the outcast never invited to a social event. I don’t blame the conservatives who keep their political views in the closet”.
    Well dmorris if he is promoted to membership on a committee or invited to a social event with people that he thinks are destroying our society, what should he do if they ask him to “Get the butter”?

  12. At work, if the subject comes up, I openly mock liberals and liberalism. It shuts them up faster than anything. If anyone of them looks in horror at the copy of the National Post in my briefcase I just tell them that I’m a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy, and that the subscription comes with a free copy of “Hidden Agenda Monthly” plus coupons that give 10% off at all “Big Oil” outlets, because after all, as all good liberals know, “It’s all about oil”. If I’m asked about Obama, I tell them my opinion, an incompetent poseur totally in over his head and a sock puppet who couldn’t pronounce his own name without a teleprompter. I tell them I own guns, and that gun control means hitting your target. And I tell them that AGW is a load of hysterical BS.
    Then I ask them what they think. There’s usually complete silence.

  13. As it happens, this exact phenomenon is why I write under a nom de plume. In the medical profession in Ontario being male and white is bad. Being male, white and conservative equals repeat sex offender. Add Christian and you’re lower than a snake’s belly in a tractor rut.
    Bottom line, you ain’t keepin’ yer job. Better to shut up and soldier. Personally I’ve never been able to shut up, its just too f-ing hard on my liver. So I’m licensed to practice PT in Arizona where LIBERALS are the ones who hide these days. In Ontario I’m a house painter.

  16. In my short experience in grad school (Archaeology), casual America-bashing and sneering at Conservative politicians was the equivalent of “lovely weather we’re having!” “Yes, but I think it’s meant to rain next week.” “Gosh, I hope not.” I’m not exaggerating. It was how Profs chatted with students they didn’t know to try to be friendly.

  17. Alex is just torqued because he got spanked so bad on the Lee-Enfield thread.
    If we all pretend he isn’t there, presently he will go away. Or possibly freak out and get banned by Kate.
    I’m good with either.

  18. Actually now that I think about it the weather is probably a pretty controversial subject in mixed company these days. I hate Academia.

  19. I see you’re still pushing your communist propaganda on others, phantom. Cut it out. We’re not your NDP buddies.

  20. Mamba, you should try welding school. Much more congenial atmosphere, and your course of study is actually worth MONEY in the Real World(TM). I thought welding school was a blast, myself. Bwaha!

  21. A: University, aka “comformity”, er “conformity”, aka “uniformity”.
    A favourite socialist phrase: the universal brotherhood of man. Ask Egghead LibIggy ’bout it.
    Brotherhood? also see: AlMoh Mohammedan’s boys in the ‘hood (MB).
    “equality seen as the movement of variety toward uniformity.”
    “Shafarevich points out with great precision both the cause and the genesis of the first socialist doctrines, which he characterizes as reactions: Plato as a reaction to Greek culture, and the Gnostics as a reaction to Christianity. They sought to counteract the endeavor of the human spirit to stand erect, and strove to return to the earthbound existence of the primitive states of antiquity. The author also convincingly demonstrates the diametrical opposition between the concepts of man held by religion and by socialism. Socialism seeks to reduce human personality to its most primitive levels and to extinguish the highest, most complex, and “God-like” aspects of human individuality. And even equality itself, that powerful appeal and great promise of socialists throughout the ages, turns out to signify not equality of rights, of opportunities, and of external conditions, but equality qua identity, equality seen as the movement of variety toward uniformity.
    Even though, as this book shows, socialism has always successfully avoided truly scientific analyses of its essence, Shafarevich’s study challenges present-day theoreticians of socialism to demonstrate their arguments in a businesslike public discussion.
    ALEKSANDR I. SOLZHENITSYN”
    “Igor Shafarevich
    The Socialist Phenomenon
    TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY William Tjalsma
    Foreword by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn”
    http://www.robertlstephens.com/essays/shafarevich/001SocialistPhenomenon.html

  22. “Before I launch into a disclosure of liberal and leftist delusional treatment of religions in general, and Islam in particular, I would like to share with you a bad racist joke. Beware; you may not want to share this short tale with your feminist friends.”
    I like it already!
    Paul in C
    I know what you speak of. I too work with some Muslim people, and when you have an in depth discussion, they will tell you what they think.
    interestingly enough (to me), I had many discussions leading-up to the 08′ election of BO. It was almost unanimous that regardless of policy, it was time for someone other than a ‘white guy’ to be President. A Chinese friend of mine said he had no qualms about not voting for someone that was white, nor admitting it. The positive side, is he had no problem with me voting for someone because they are white. In his view it’s normal.
    In the end, we all benefit when the Left openly discusses their views because most people are easily swayed by shifty language. IMO the Left just keeps-on digging. We need to get these people on record! We need to hold them accountable.
    Perhaps when we go to the polls I will tell people I’m voting for PMSH because he’s white(I know we don’t vote for PM). Since there will be no minorities running for PM in our Progressive Utopia(ironic eh?) I should be able to counter the ‘bigot’ label I’m bound to get, but IMO that makes it funnier.
    Who’s coming with me?

  23. I was a mature student when I attended university thus I proudly wore my Conservative Label in the court of public opinion, it kept the leftwing flakes from bugging me with their marxists’ activists’ nonsense.

  24. This is an intriguing concept. What vague statement can we make that lets other conservatives know we are one of them while sailing over progressive heads?
    The nameless professor from the link: “I remember one guy who heard me comment on how some architecture reminded me of something I read in The Fountainhead”
    I have used, when the weather is cold, “where is that global warming Al Gore (or Suzuki) promised us?” to little effect.
    Progressives, academics and the MSM don’t want us to connect with each other and they don’t want our very reasonable ideas to see the light of day. It is critical that we conservatives connect.
    This, and other conservative web sites, are our meeting places. But there are thousands of conservatives out there who think they are alone (like I did before finding SDA & PTBC.ca).
    Please share your ideas.

  25. My conservative sister-in-law teaches in a college in Ontario and knows to keep her mouth shut.
    Thank goodness in the part of Canada that I live people who are conservative do not have to keep their mouth shut.
    The vast majority of those utopian academics who think the Marxist socialist world is something wonderful to strive for would change their mind quickly if they had our family’s experience in that world. The sad part is that they are brainwashing the students that are exposed to their vile teachings.

  26. Ken – it’s not ideology. It is for some, but not for most. I grew up around a lot of academics and I still know many. It’s class. Most people, including academics, don’t really care about politics all that much. Politics are to us moderns what religion was to people in the Middle Ages (kinda-sorta for the purposes of this analogy). There are always some fanatics (Chomsky), and there are always some devotees (average SDA regular?), but for most people political ideas are just ambient.
    What academics don’t want is to be seen as lower class. Harold Bloom, a stalwart of Classical literary criticism who has done more to fend off the toxic trash of deconstructionism than anyone I know of, and not exactly a man insecure in his position or reputation, feels the need to compensate for his – call it what it is – lifetime’s work of promoting conservatism by claiming to be as far left as anyone could be on social and economic issues; i.e. everything that doesn’t directly affect him and which he doesn’t really care about. Being considered a conservative at Harvard or Yale ranks several rungs below “child molester” and just one under “hunts for fun”.
    Professors are not renouned for their courage. My understanding is that most German academics (Germans invented the system) stampeded to the Nazis in the 1930s; I’ve heard stories of them turning in lists of Jewish students.

  27. Great: it sounded like my worklife to a tee. Now I don’t know whether to read Adam Smith or head on down to the Menz Bar.

  28. @ Black Mamba,”most German academics stampeded to the Nazis in the 1930s”. You are correct. Ditto in Russia in the 1917-25 period and later when their usefulness as “specialists” was over were either worked to death in labour camps or shot as reactionary subversives on some pretext. Some were true liberals but many were so consumed by their theoretical hatred of autocracy that they were blinded by their dream of some equality utopia. I guess you could say the useful idiots got what they deserved.

  29. The great Allan Bloom, by the way—friend to Bellow—had both bases covered. He didn’t hesitate to speak his mind even during intense conflict at Cornell—and considered it an abdication when colleagues caved to political pressure.

  31. Dear Mr. “The Phantom”
    ain’t life grand? it’s good to know that life is being good to you.
    there’s admiration in that – but don’t tell anybody – 😉

  32. I try to go incognito. I think it’s best for those of rightist persuasion at a university to try and infiltrate the institutions there best they can. Lie, cheat, and steal if you have to.

  33. The nice thing about being a Libertarian is that you can generally piss everyone off. For a while I kept my political views private but then when statist promotion of CAGW was becoming more blatant I decided it was time to come out and deal with other peoples BS head on.
    I know I’ve shocked some people who can’t understand how I can be a doctor and hold the views I do. What is most interesting is just asking people to explain the details of their positions on CAGW and one very quickly finds that they have no in depth knowledge of the subject but rather some very superficial easy to remember BS that is supposed to cow the non-believers. A lot of people are just not prepared for detailed questioning and I hope I’m sowing many seeds of doubt in peoples minds.

  34. Another method to show your conservative colours is to quote Adam Smith. No socialist can grasp the true meaning of Smith’s idea that business is predicated on the “mutual trust of strangers”.
    So if you hear someone quote Adam Smith or positively refer to “Fountainhead” or Ayn Rand, you are definitely hearing from a conservative. You can go ahead and enjoy an intelligent and grown-up conversation.

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