Understanding Diversity

7 Responses to Understanding Diversity

1. darwin says:

   March 30, 2013 at 8:52 pm

   Wow … that chick on the right looks like a younger Bill McKrackpot. Hmmm, maybe in his younger days William was Wilma McKrackpot?

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2. Melody Harpole says:

   March 30, 2013 at 8:56 pm

   Sadly, this is what they believe.

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3. GeologyJim says:

   March 30, 2013 at 10:18 pm

   Sounds just like the nightly broadcast news, Letterman, Madonna, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, O-Butt-head, any Kennedy, Greenpeace, WWF, etc., etc.

   Ho-hum

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4. Andy DC says:

   March 31, 2013 at 2:01 am

   My opinion about abortion: Why should I be made to pay with my tax dollars for the stupidity and moral turpitude of teenage girls/welfare mothers who have no capacity to support themselves, let alone support their children?

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   • kbray in california says:

     March 31, 2013 at 3:20 am

     I agree Andy, and taxpayers should have oversight veto regarding where the revenue can be spent.

     But these young mothers have the babies to allow them to qualify for section 8 housing, welfare, food stamps, medicaid, WIC, etc. If they have a crack baby that does poorly in school (no surprise), they are deemed “disabled” and qualify to get an extra $1,000 per month per “disabled” baby here in California. Babies are their meal ticket, for life.
     My brother had a renter who received $9,000 per month, and she was here illegally and owned a nice new car for all those kids. This is Liberal Insanity.

     The behavior is similar to in India where they cut off a hand of a child for sympathy for begging income. It is all a perversion and an evil manipulation of the gift of life.

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5. tckev says:

   March 31, 2013 at 8:48 am

   diversity (n.)
   mid-14c., “quality of being diverse,” mostly in a neutral sense, from Old French diversité (12c.) “difference, diversity, unique feature, oddness:” also “wickedness, perversity,” from Latin diversitatem (nominative diversitas) “contrariety, contradiction, disagreement;” also, as a secondary sense, “difference, diversity,” from diversus “turned different ways” (in Late Latin “various”), past participle of divertere (see divert).

   Negative meaning, “being contrary to what is agreeable or right; perversity, evil” existed in English from late 15c. but was obsolete from 17c. Diversity as a virtue in a nation is an idea from the rise of modern democracies in the 1790s, where it kept one faction from arrogating all power (but this was not quite the modern sense, as ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, etc. were not the qualities in mind):
   The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the national government, and still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views in any partial scheme of elections. There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society. [“Federalist” #60, Feb. 26, 1788 (Hamilton)]

   Specific focus (in a positive sense) on race, gender, etc. is from 1992.

   from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=diversity

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6. gator69 says:

   March 31, 2013 at 9:49 am

   I would call that ‘leftist logic’. Liberals believe in liberty, and not collectivism. Progressives like dressing up as liberals and trapping the unwary.

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