We can now add Halloween parties to the list of things we can’t do because we live in a diverse society
notes one
Benny Huang, who knows a thing or two about racial diversity.
Advocates of diversity ought to familiarize themselves with a little thing
called “truth in advertising.” Like all ideas, diversity is “sold,” in a
manner of speaking. Great efforts are made to get the public to buy
into the concept that the optimal model for society is a heterogeneous
jumble of people who share nothing in common. The fewer commonalities we
have, the better! That’s what diversity means—differentness. It’s
enough to make you wonder what the benefits of diversity are; besides
the race riots and lack of social cohesion, I mean. As many
condescending liberals have explained to me, the benefits of living in a
diverse society include a panoply of ethnic restaurants right in our
own neighborhoods…and not much else. I guess that’s a good enough
selling point for some people.
But is it too much to ask of diversity’s booster club that they at
least disclose the price of diversity before we decide it’s something we
want? They never do. Diversity is promoted as an unqualified good,
something that only a crazy person wouldn’t like. It’s all roses, no
thorns.
Until the bill comes due, that is, and then we find out that
diversity isn’t free. With a myriad of cultures comes a limitless set of
traditions, social norms, prickly sensibilities and hot button issues.
Someone is always bound to take offense or to feel excluded, which
requires us to reinvent our culture from the bottom up. Now that we live
in a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual, and even multi-gendered (!) society, our old ways are no longer appropriate.
I could easily write a book filled with examples of stuff that the
diversity enforcers won’t allow us to say, do, and think. I would call
it “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”
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the whole thing™ for "a short list of 'nice things' that people living in diverse environments can’t have."
Benny Huang adds that he
could go on and on with dozens of more examples. Far from being a bonus, diversity looms as a pagan god that demands the
constant sacrifice of everything we hold dear. In exchange for a few
benefits—exotic restaurants, I guess?—it compels society give up its
traditions, its sacred rights, and even its basic decency. The terms of
the Faustian bargain are never spoken aloud of course because no one
would ever accept it if they were. Diversity’s salesmen will tell us
that there is much to gain and nothing to lose though experience should
tell us that they’re lying. It first demands that we give up the small
stuff, things that seem insignificant when considered in isolation, such
as silly high school musicals. What’s the big deal if we ditch West
Side Story for the sake of racial harmony? But it doesn’t stop there
because diversity’s hunger is never sated. A precedent has been set and
will inevitably be followed from there on out.
