In terms of ideology, “diversity” seems to be the belief that the less we have in common, and feel we have in common, the happier we will be. An unobvious proposition, to say the least. Yet the word is mouthed as if it were a self-evident good, a “strength,” a moral imperative, a thing of which one could never have enough.
It seems to me we’ve strayed very far from the idea that an attractively developed society should – and must – be discerning about which kinds of newcomers it welcomes, lest it be flooded with incompatible tribes and the trash of the world. The idea that the locals, the voting citizens, might want a good deal and ask, “What’s in it for us?” seems anathema to Our Betters. Likewise, the notion of a civilised society implying, quite strongly, “You’re lucky to be here. Behave accordingly.”
And so, instead, we get the routine airbrushing of crime news, and instructional videos in which ludicrous progressive women film themselves performing please-don’t-rape-me dances.
Liberal uber-tolerance and self-deception is immortal. Civilization is not.
Diversity is your strength. Liberal Connecticut Nimbyism.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/connecticut-town-that-voted-kamala-harris-fights-against/
I’m hitting the sack, but I thought I’d take a sec first to query the top 5 US cities for crime…
https://search.brave.com/search?q=top+us+cities+for+crime+rate&summary=1&conversation=6234f0b2bd5e2cd0e35abb
I was prompted by the current faux rage of Dem. mayors over Trump sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same for other crime ridden cities. (Baltimore and Chicago?)
Genius!
And one would only pay $1,000,000 to purchase a home in Oakland and live in the second most dangerous city in the nation.
Well, as long as ‘they’ bring up the subject I guess it’s OK to agree… 😉
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/25/sharpton-trump-only-threatening-cities-with-black-mayors-race-dog-whistling/
Not “dog whistling”, just pointing out the glaringly obvious. Are there any Republican run cities in the top 10 crime cities?
The USA was designed as a monoculture with superficial diversity. We belong to the American culture first. We have small differences – race, ethnicity, religion, politics – that are largely ignored by most, but occasionally celebrated. The diversity was basically just decoration. The common, shared, American culture kept us together.
The diversity has now become a problem. Radical diversities have been injected into the USA, or have been been allowed to mutate into aberrant sub-cultures that are tearing away from the American monoculture. It becomes increasingly difficult to hold the nation together or reverse the damage.
This will end badly for all.
There is nothing wrong with diversity, per se. However, when diversity becomes the goal, instead of an attribute, problems occur.
The original argument for diversity was the equally troubling problem of ‘groupthink’ – where everyone believed the same things, and any thoughts to the contrary were quickly put down. The theory was adding some alternate view points to a discussion might help avoid major miscues, such as the Bud Light fiasco. And there might have been a time in the 70s when that was true.
However, we have confused diversity of “view points” with diversity of “values”. We just assumed that everyone would share our values – after all, we had built a successful economic powerhouse by adhering to those values – and we invited others to join us. This has been a disaster.
Think of a rowing eight. When each member is driven by the same unifying value – stay on count, pull together – the shell practically flies out of the water. But if each rower pulled whenever their diverse values felt it was right, the boat would flail helplessly in circles, with each rower fighting against the others. Which sounds an awful lot like Canada right now.
People think it’s racist to espouse these values, but I married a Chinese woman from the Philippines, and her family (she has brothers across Canada and the US, and now nieces/nephews and grandnieces/etc) all share the same Christian values that I do. So do the many Filipinos I know here in Canada. And I have worked with many black people who share them as well. It’s got nothing to do with race, and everything to do with culture.
I don’t know if Kate keeps archives from a decade ago, but I do remember ranting here once that the Left worshipped death in all its forms. Drugs -> death, and it’s becoming even faster with fentanyl. Abortion -> Death. MAiD -> Death. Destroy the family by telling women having kids was ‘settling’, and we no longer have births at even replacement rate, thus causing death to our society. They rail against Christians but let people openly worship Satan. They seem to love war (death), because it’s the right wing in Canada, US, and Europe that wants nothing to do with Ukraine.
It’s time to call these people out for what they are: merchants of death. Today, Conman Carney – who has no mandate at all to do so – committed Canadian troops to Ukraine. Let’s get some people who cherish life in charge instead.