Enforced diversity

An unpopular truth

[Reprinted from Issues & Views September 10, 2001]

William Anderson describes his participation in a mandatory "diversity" seminar for his new job at Frostburg State University in Maryland. After recounting some of the idiotic exercises (e.g., individuals stand and testify to past abuses in their lives, while the group applauds), he observes that liberals have managed to impose such indignities as these "diversity" sessions because of their control of so many social institutions. He writes:

That is where the State comes in. Many leftists owe their power not to ideas or their personal abilities to persuade others as to the logic of their beliefs, but rather because they have a coercive State standing behind them and giving them big bucks to boot. Had Congress not beat us over the head with sexual harassment law or had the government not gone into the business of taking from productive people to give to those who are unproductive, this "diversity" industry with its high-priced seminars would disappear overnight.

Furthermore, I believe that if we dropped these seminars, people actually would get along better, and we would be more accepting of one another. As things stand now, we have a government using its usual violent means to force people to "get along," people who in most circumstances would either ignore each other or cooperate to the point where it is mutually beneficial.

-- Excerpted from Bill Learns Diversity Training, by William Anderson at LewRockwell.com

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