October is Global Diversity Awareness Month
Recently I saw a youtube video where a fat redhead woman with a poor vocabulary, and even poorer grasp of reality was knocking white men as something less than everyone else on the planet.This, coupled with the fact that she was a stupid white girl cracker of the basest most ignorant cant pronounce her own terms sort simply added to my disdain for her and her ilk ... and I ended up doing a very unflattering mouseover of her morfing into the sow that she is in reality and all her stupidity.
Growing up in a Navy family I often heard my Dad use some of that jargon from his career in his explanations of various things to me over the years. Things like:
"The right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way"
"swab the deck", and
"the Navy is colorblind"
I didn't always know what these things meant in my childhood; but I have always been in schools with people from other cultures and as such I have been fairly tolerant of those different than me. It's all I ever knew.
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It is an appositive for the existence of differences in various experiential inventories as they pertain to gender, gender identity, religion, sociololgy, economics, sexual preferences, racial or ethnic classifications, age, intelligence, mental or physical health status, genetics, behavior, place of origin, cultural values, political ideology, and the list has the potential to be virtually endless. Diversity can actually encompass any other identifying features within a group as well.
Diversity is important in the fact that different cultures may aid communication between people of different backgrounds and lifestyles. This communication can promote greater knowledge, understanding, and peaceful coexistence.
The inverse of diversity then becomes assimilation, whereby "the many become one" and those of different backgrounds assume the same identity to achieve the recognition, communication, knowledge, and peaceful coexistence which is the aim of diversity.
"Respect for Diversity" is one of the six principles of the Global Greens Charter, a public declaration of intent subscribed to by Green parties from all over the world. I used to recognize and support diversity. I feel that if we were all the same the world would be a boring place.
However, I grow weary of the overuse of terms such as diversity because they become trite and diminish the significance of that which they attempt to promote. The recognition of the differences we all have is important and we should all get along regardless of who we are, from where we originate, or if or where we worship.
Then there is this prevailing leftist notion that diversity is simply another term for "not white" and that discrimination against people such as myself is the true crux of my problem with the entire notion.
Then there is "global" and all the New World Order traitor Bush connotations that brings up. The traitor Bushes and the brigand Obamas can both go straight to hell along with the crook ass Clintons.
I don't necessarily view diversity as some idol to be placed on the alter of tradition. In a word, celebrate your life as you see fit. Try not to make the fact that you're different appear to be the only thing you value. There is a political correctness which envelops diversity that makes me want to squash it like a bug.
Be different. Don't knock me because I'm different from you.