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Diversity City
Where reside the masters of passive virtue.
“I could never live out there,” says my neo-bohemian friend, his words conveying a profound sense of horror. “It’s too white.”
“What have you got against white people?” I ask. My friend — to quote Fitzgerald — is also of a nebulous hue.
“What I mean is,” he sputters, “is there’s no diversity out there.”
I tell him there is no diversity in my neighborhood either and I live right smack in the middle of St. Louis. Nearly every one is poor and black. My wife and I are about the only middle class white folks.
It’s getting harder and harder to find good diversity these days.
I have heard such sentiments expressed more than once by the flip, college-educated crowd. They issue such statements in an attempt to flaunt their moral superiority, the way a star athlete would publicize his batting average. Masters of passive virtue, they hope to score points for their politically correct beliefs without expending any real effort. Why not? It’s a heck of a lot easier than getting up Saturday morning to volunteer at a soup kitchen.
By “out there” he means beyond the metropolitan area. The dull, crime-free suburbs and rural areas. I suspect there are other reasons he would never live “out there.” No trendy Himalayan restaurants. No outsider art galleries and mid-century modern furniture shops. No meeting exciting new people with dubious sexual orientation. No exhilarating feeling that comes from knowing you could be violently murdered at any moment. All the things that make life worth living for some people.
Let’s face it, I want to say. You despise average, middle Americans. I don’t say it, though. I have to work with this guy. But I know his kind all too well. Many people who live in cities have “escaped” small towns or the suburbs. They flee to the cities because they cannot abide average, small-town Americans. They hate their hobbies (bowhunting), they hate their music (Dierks Bentley), they hate their imposing vehicles (Ford Raptor pickups). For all their pretense at inclusivity, city folks are remarkably exclusive.
They reside on select streets or in neighborhoods where there is little if any diversity, and where multiculturalism is but a slogan and a vague ideal. They frequent what may as well be “whites only” tea houses, used book stores, and art gallery openings in edgy urban neighborhoods where the lack of diversity stands out like a missing thumb. They dine in expensive ethnic restaurants where the patrons are mirror images of one another. They pack their kids off to private schools that 75 percent of city residents cannot afford. That apparently doesn’t count. What counts is that the city itself — in its totality — has lots of diversity.
ONE ACQUAINTANCE, a young Asian woman (“We are the one acceptable minority,” she avers), has had enough of the hypocrisy of her fellow neo-bohemians. No more will she patronize any place in which the clientele, audience, or guest list is less than 10 percent “of color.” Should she find herself in such loathsome, monochrome surroundings, she immediately turns round and makes for the exit. What’s more, she carries in her purse little cards that chide the restaurateur, gallery owner, etc., for his lack of diversity. These she places on a table or at the counter on her way out. Just what the owner is supposed to do (Pull in random minorities off the street? Offer free refills to Hispanics?) remains an open question.
It seems to me that she is targeting the wrong people. The owner of an inner-city coffeehouse has little control over who comes in to sponge off his free Wi-Fi. If poor minorities avoid espresso bars it is probably because they think it absurd to spend $5 for a cup of decaf and $3 for a banana. The same goes for the Bedouin cuisine at the local Jordanian restaurant. It is simply a luxury they cannot afford.
Such people can only see people as members of groups, never as unique individuals. They are forever counting and adding up percentages. It could be that “out there” there are some very interesting and kind spirited people. My city friends will never know, because they refuse to go “out there.” Anyway until the percentages improve.
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oldfart| 1.12.12 @ 6:44AM
These people are part of a culture that has been taught (in our centers of lower learning) WHAT to think - not HOW to think.
What has happened to diversity of thinking? This is the greatest diversity of all.
How shallow is their thinking!!!! Differences in skin color are no more significant than differences in eye or hair color at a genetic level. But skin color is their measure of acceptability?
Excuse me – who the hell is the racist here????
George Orwell - we have arrived.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.12.12 @ 10:29AM
I wonder where this Asian broad, goes to eat, most times? Ya think she goes to Asian Restaurants? I don't know about anybody else, but, I've yet to have the pleasure of seeing any Black Employees, working at an Asian Restaurant. No Whites. No Jews. No Muslims.
I have seen the Illegals, in the Kitchens, and Cleaning the Toilets.
I wonder if she leaves her infantile cards, there?
Yeah, right.
I DESPISE the Leftist PUKES that inhabit America's Cities. The only solace I get, is that, when they hit us again, and they will, it'll be where they roam the streets, with their noses in the air, and their Heads, up their *sses.
It's kind of the Silver Lining of it all.
Le Cracquere| 1.12.12 @ 12:27PM
You stay classy, now.
Skippy| 1.14.12 @ 4:10PM
Right on, brother.
I kinda like that they won't even understand who is killing them and why.
NedB| 1.12.12 @ 7:14AM
Every once in a while I run into one of these "Diversity" boobs.
I have so much fun tormenting them.
They start out with their usual "You Racist!" attack. That's one I hit them with saturation logic bombs.
"I'm a racist? So tell me, how many intelligent and sentient races are there on this planet?"
They usually start sputtering about blacks, Hispanics etc. at which point I inform them that as far as I know, there is only one intelligent/sentient race on this planet and that is the human race.
As they start to sputter like a misfiring outboard motor, I go in for the coup de grace.
"So, you look at a person's skin color and judge them on that? You are aware that skin color is an evolutionary trait designed to protect the body, aren't you?
People with darker skin come from regions with higher levels of solar radiation than people with lighter skin.
Since the body generate Vitamin D, a vital nutrient, through sunlight, darker skin prevents to much vitamin D production. Nothing more."
Usually at this point, the "Diversity" boob's head explodes. :)
oldfart| 1.12.12 @ 7:40AM
Another thing you can hit them with is that there is more genetic diversity in 1,000 chimps than in the entire human population.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.12.12 @ 10:40AM
What's wrong with being a Racist? I don't mean the Klan, or Al Sharpton, or Jeremiah Wright, or Harry Belafonte type, Racists.
I don't mean the ones that HATE. I mean the ones that think 'Their Race' is the best. That's okay, right?
I'm White. I think that the Whites are the best. I'm part Scottish and part English. I think that's the best. Is that wrong?
Do Blacks think that they're the best?
Of course they do.
Do Asians think that they're the best?
Of course.
Italians go to Italian Restaurants. Asians go to Asian ones. Indians go to Indian Restaurants. And, I would bet that Blacks like the Foods of their Race. Soul Food.
Is that Racist?
And does ANYONE remember Martin Luther King Jr's DREAM?
I don't think so.
RCV| 1.12.12 @ 11:19AM
You are a sorry excuse for a human being.
Timothy L. Pennell| 1.12.12 @ 2:26PM
Coming from YOU?
It's a Badge of Honour.
DRed| 1.12.12 @ 9:29PM
oh wow, I missed this earlier. What a tour de force of ignorant bigotry. The best part was the bit about the restaurants. Seriously, thank you Tim. I haven't laughed that hard in days. If you ever make it to Brooklyn, I'll buy you some scotch eggs at a nice English restaurant I know.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 1.13.12 @ 12:00PM
I don't bother with silly being a sorry excuse for a human being, for your snide disagreeable little information, as a sanctimonious and hypocritical lifelong constitutional scholar, and a sanctimonious and hypocritical lifelong biblical scholar, and a sanctimonious and hypocritical expert on real Christian love as well as compassion, who supports the dithering idiot liar in chief of downgrade and really pathetic and despicable speeches from the beginning, while I sanctimoniously and hypocritically abhor tea partiers, who are wholly lacking in intelligence and espouse policies that are dangerous and damaging to the nation, because, at least, I belong to a party that cares about human beings, whether they are sorry excuses or not, at least, AFTER they're born, since I am such a sorry excuse of a douchebag, and I am also such a sorry excuse of an asswipe, at the very least, matters.
Sheila| 1.12.12 @ 12:23PM
Timothy, you're wasting your time here with the noble, moral, non-racist right-liberal conservative repukes. They're engaging in "weaselstrikes," a term coined by blogger Rick Darby at his site, "Reflecting Light." He wrote about this phenomenon just yesterday, weary of those (typical of this website) who love to make a "supposedly conservative argument that concedes the primacy of non-conservative values. The implication is that the opposition isn't wrong, just not living up to politically correct ideals." Check out the whole thing here
Tim the Enchanter| 1.12.12 @ 3:23PM
Other sites call these types of bloggers "mobys".
RCV| 1.13.12 @ 11:23AM
Sheila - You and Timothy should really get together. You could spawn a whole new "master race".
Old Blevins| 1.13.12 @ 3:51PM
Tim: I believe that pride in ethnicity is a good thing. I also think the guy who invented Kwanzaa screwed up by placing it in December. The Germans have OctoberFest, to celebrate food and beer....mostly beer. Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's day to celebrate food and drink...mostly drink. Each year there is a week in September to celebrate Greek food...and Ouzo....if you dare. 4th of July is for everyone. (Apologies to the ethnic festivals not included in the short list.) Moving Kwanzaa to February would be crass, due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. How about getting Congress to move Kwanzaa to June (I think June is open) to celebrate music, food, and..drink. Sounds like a great party to me.
Pecos Pete| 1.12.12 @ 7:15AM
And they never shop at Walmart. If they want diversity, they should ... visit ... shop ... occupy ... Walmart. You'll never find these diversity freaks at Walmart, or for that matter any down-scale store. They want diversity for thee and me, but exclusivity for them.
It is the Ruling Class discussion all over again.
Ted R.| 1.12.12 @ 7:49AM
Identity politics is a normal and natural phenomenon amongst racial minorities (sociologically, rather than biologically, defined) - groups of people who have, in ways large and small, formal and informal, historically suffered at the hands of the descendents of European peoples. Conservatives should appreciate the long reach of Europe's sordid racist past, into the present; they SHOULD, because in most every other way, conservatives appreciate the deep roots of the past in current events (can anyone say "crusade" ?)... but they don't in this case, because the simple fact is, most conservatives are white, and most conservatives really do have a problem with minority classes in America.
The funny thing is, it is the white ethnics in the U.S. who are as wrapped up as anybody in identity poltics. Race suffuses their whole worldview - it is the common thread that runs through everything from their complaints about the welfare state (giving "undeserved" aid to minorities) to foreign policy ("towel-heads," etc. ETC.) and immigration (obviously.).
Minority identity politics is to some extent regrettable, but it really is a normal response to historical inequities - ESPECIALLY when those inequities are beginning to be left behind. But what explains the grievous identity politics of affluent whites in America? These people are the farthest thing from a minority. These are people who, given all their complaints about political correctness, ought to know better. Unless they ARE a bunch of unreconstructed racists.
Bob K.| 1.12.12 @ 9:09AM
After all your the finger wagging and tut tutting at people of European ancestry, specifically those who are conservative, you finally got to the subject of the article in the last paragraph and concluded that affluent whites often might really be racists after all.
Feel all warm and fuzzy now?
PolishKnight| 1.12.12 @ 9:25AM
What a delightfully stereotypical diatribe! Even as the PC practitioners of diversity sputter against the "white" suburbs of America, what they really have against them isn't their race or lifestyle but their anti-marxist politics. When the USA firmly committed to the cold war in the 1950's (despite all the Soviet spies in the Democrat FDR and Truman administration) they secretly declared war on their own populace and to replace them with welfare class non-whites.
Yet, at the same time, their ideal and objective is to make America into Sweden and Germany. As the author of this article points out, their "ethnic" restaurants have mostly affluent Asians and whites in them and rarely do they hang out with the most loyal democrat demographic of all: blacks.
Regarding inequality: since the so-called civil rights movement, black families are not much better off and hispanics are used as illegal slave labor for businesses but the Democrats look the other way because they're useful as future Democrat voters. The Democrat elites want the USA to not be like Sweden but rather more like Mexico which is run by a white, corrupt, criminal class that looks the other way when people are kidnapped off the streets or the police shake down tourists for bribes.
Ironically, the only think propping up all these paradoxes is private industry and loans from China to keep these elite mostly government unionized workers employed. For now.
Bob K.| 1.12.12 @ 10:08AM
Agreed!
And have you ever noticed that Europeans of Spanish descent from the Iberian Peninsula are classified as "non-white" whereas those of Portuguese descent are not?
Ten generations of Spanish Europeans have been exploiting South Americans of native American ancestry along with the Blacks brought to these area by the slave trade. Yet, even though they are White and Wealthy and in South America are politically powerful, they are given preference here in the United States in getting employment in Government and Academia because they have Spanish surnames.
Take a close look at all the hispanic/latino populist activist leaders in our South West. Most of them are of pure white European descent just like the Castro brothers and Che are and were. But let a true Native American leader show up in South America who happens to look like Chavez in Venezuela (And if he were a Capitalist they would still try to run him off!) and see what happens to him.
Grzmlyk| 1.12.12 @ 1:29PM
Said the racist liberal as he polished his halo, gazed upon his reflection in the mirror of cheap pop culture shibboleths and pronounced himself "GOOD."
Let me ask you a question, fool: Does the glow emanating from your halo obscure the one spewing forth from that cross you set ablaze on your Christian neighbor's lawn?
First of all, you people are more bigoted than any true conservative could ever aspire to be; you beatify victim groups not because you believe they are inherently superior (though that is what you claim, failing to see the inherent and ironic racism of your fundmantal position), but because they make you feel good about yourself. Second, it is YOU people who hate with abandon and impunity. Look at the despicable behavior exhibited at virtually all of the "Occupy" mob gatherings versus what occurs at Tea Party assemblies. Liberals are all about hate; it's just a matter of hating the right people.
That's what democrat politics is all about: resentment, envy, class warfare, hatred of everybody who isn't propped up by a false conciousness and dancing to the rabble-rousing tune called by the mainstream media - themselves elitist hypocrites who love Black Folk as long as they know their place.
You LOVE to hate White Americans of European descent, first and foremost - whom, without irony, you gleefully declare untermenschen (you know, like the Nazis declared Jews sub-human). You hate the mythical "one percent" almost as much. And, of course, Conservatives are REALLY just ASKING for your hatred. Christians, naturally, are despicable, inherently evil animals. And the Jews - well, need I say more about the Jews (those who do not live on the Upper West Side or listen to NPR, of course)?; Oh, and what about those Global Warming Deniers? Something really ought to be done about them, am I right? Between you and me, don't you just want to skin them alive and boil them in oil? Go ahead, do it! None of your cohorts will say anything! After all, you voted for Obama! That proves you're all about the love.
The truth is, as long as you can stamp some benighted third-worlder or American minority with the moniker "victim," hey, you are free be as selfish, nihilistic, destructive, narcissistic and useless as you want to be - and still pat yourself on the back for your moral superiority as you continue to live your life of conspicuous consumption on someone else's dime. As long as you talk the talk - paying lip service to "diversity" and "social justice" and "fairness" - you never have to walk the walk. Words, words, words. You love victim groups as intellectual abstractions only. God forbid you ever encounter the product of YOUR racist and dehumanizing policies on a dark street in Brooklyn one night. But since you all agree to pretend you're not racists of the most execrable order, you simply reinforce each other's delusion - codependence on a massive scale.
As long as you recite liberal dogma, you can be as racist, right out in the open, as you want and nobody calls you on it.
The most racist comments and stereotypes come from the left. Look at the show "Family Guy" - as liberal is they come. Because Seth McFarlane is a member in good standing of the Morally Superior Party, he takes pot shots at ethnicities with the basest of demeaning, stereotyping jokes. But instead of being excoriated as a "hater," he's lionized as an edgy social commentarian because liberals look at each other and wink and nod (as they always do): "We can make derogatory comments, you see, dahling, because we are being IRONIC. We really love those cute negros who can't do anything without Rich White Liberals giving them money, food, housing and whatever their little hearts desire."
Just don't let one of your cute little pets wander off the reservation, you vacuous, shallow poseur (I mean you, Ted R); because then it's open season on them.
Or don't you remember the the deluge of offensive political cartoons from the left about Condaleeza Rice? Clarence Thomas? Herman Cain? Michelle Bachmann? Sarah Palin's Down Syndrome kid?
And WE'RE the bigots?
PolishKnight| 1.12.12 @ 3:04PM
I've talked with many leftist Jews on this topic and they engage in open bigotry against white males and even, if you catch them with a few drinks, against gentiles. They've told me that white male Christians are lazy, uneducated, and trailer park trash and their opinion is irrelevant and, simultaneously, that since WM's are so "privileged", it's ok to discriminate against them in education even as that means they won't ever stop being "ignorant." (Which doesn't appear to be a problem for them, obviously.)
I pointed out to them that this is fundamentally little different than anti-semitism and they shrug and call me "paranoid" and "ignorant" and dismissed my opinion.
Grzmlyk| 1.12.12 @ 4:08PM
Yeah, the blind spot that occludes liberal vision can only be explained by the fact that they spend so much time kissing their own behinds, their heads have become permanently lodged up their asses.
This is the fundamental argument for affirmative action - it's ok to screw whitey because whitey screwed blackie (or whomever the victimization lottery winner du jour is).
And note that this is purely dealing with an abstract construct - I personally had nothing to do with slavery, since my family came over from Europe at the end of the 19th century. But it doesn't matter - I'm white, and therefore, my "group" is guilty. Isn't that what liberals claim they are against? Judging a person based on whichever group he or she may belong to? Isn't that the very definition of bigotry?
Their masturbatory self-adulation is therefore laughable on its face; that is the ONLY way they view the world - through the lens of various groups. Therefore, blacks need to be given, say, jobs, ahead of whites. It matters not one iota to the liberal if this particular black man is a worthy human being who has earned the job, or whether that particular black woman is a habitual liar who has never lifted a finger to build a life for herself. In the eyes of the liberal, hey, they're blacks, and that's all that matters. Then again, if a liberal needed life-saving surgery, do you think for a moment he'd reject the world-renowned surgeon on hand who happens to be white in favor of the first black surgeon who walks in the door? NOT A CHANCE. They never live by what they prescribe for you and me.
This is why Obama is now president, and why so many liberals still think he's ginger peachy; they dare not look at this over-inflated, ideologically blinkered non-entity that has been nudged upward his entire life, own his own merits.
I find it supremely ironic that, when Obama first burst onto the scene, any criticism of him at all was demonized as purely driven by racism. Now that many in his own party feel he hasn't gone leftward enough, they, too are criticising him. But, you see, because they're enlighted, their criticism is purely about policy. But because we're ipso facto bigots, our criticism is purely about race.
The truth of the matter is that racism is part of the human psyche; the source of racism is tribalism. And liberals engage in a far more primitive, unforgiving, nihilistic form of tribalism than conservatives do. Thus their never-ending efforts to institutionalize racism at every turn.
PolishKnight| 1.12.12 @ 4:39PM
One of the interesting aspects of "diversity" and "inclusion" is how openly they engage in the opposite. It's this simple: "diversity" and "equality" NEVER apply when a white male might benefit. So "diversity" doesn't really matter if, say, a "women and minority" owned company is almost entirely run by blacks and women. If they decide to make things more diverse, they'll lay off any remaining white males and hire some other special interest group.
Consequently, it's amazing that Asians now are voting Democrat in similar ratios as blacks and hispanics. I was reading recently about an Asian woman going after Chick-fila or some other business where a stupid employee wrote a slur on a note. That kind of race hysteria was usually reserved for Jesse Jackson but now it's becoming common. EVERYONE whose not a straight white male will make demands at the drop of a hat.
What gets them to run out of a room when I confront them that their marxist ideals have degenerated into old fashioned "minority" bashing (in the case, white males are clearly a minority by the literal definition of the word.) They quickly try to change the subject and even tell me to "stop whining". (note: When MLK organizes marches to raise awareness, he's a hero. But when white males they dislike complain, it's "sit down and shut up.")
Grzmlyk| 1.12.12 @ 5:16PM
Yes - another great example is the NFL. The players ar something like 80% black. Up until the mid 1990s, coaching staffs were approximately 80% white.
What did the NFL do? They changed the policy so that teams HAD to interview prospective coaches who were BLACK first. The PC thinking being, of course, that it would be a horrible stereotype to have most of the players (or, as Vikings RB Adrian Peterson put it, the multi-million dollar players are the "slaves") be black while management (the "overseers) remained predominantly white.
Now, did anyone stand up and utter one of liberalism's favorite bromides: "The NFL should look like America!!!"
In which case,whites would comprise about 75% of players, black about 13%, "Hispanics" about 7% and Asians about 5%.
Somehow, though, it's ok when discrimination goes the other way.
PolishKnight| 1.13.12 @ 11:19AM
I don't watch the NFL but I recall from the games I saw during the 70's that it seemed that the players were representative of the general population. Perhaps what happened is that even as the blacks took over the ranks of the players, they were slower to advance in management due to seniority (older players were white.) The average career of an NFL player is to his late 30's early 40's, right? So the disparity was probably perfectly natural. However, that doesn't explain the clear disparity in the NBA which has been largely black for several decades.
Ironically (lots of that is in this discussion) I often hear from whites' complaints about the NBA that sound as if they were written by the left: They tell me they don't like to watch professional basketball because "It's just a bunch of blacks playing against each other." That kind of remark if it was made in the open would be declared racist by the left but it's the reasoning by diversity proponents that "representing the market" is essential when firing whites to make non-white customers feel more at home.
Side observation about the NBA, professional swimming, and golf: When players get to a particular size that they can simply walk the ball into the hoop, or their $2000 shark skin suits give them a 10% advantage of a special club lets a Mr Magoo hit a ball into the hole from 500 yards away, it's largely meaningless.
Ted R.| 1.13.12 @ 9:47AM
Quite a rant. But, after all, those really are a conservative specialty. I bet you could do this in your sleep.
It'd be nice if Cons would actually address what I say sometimes, and not haul off on the demonized liberals of their imaginations.
Or maybe - just maybe- you're so mad, because I have struck a nerve...
R is for Reprobate| 1.13.12 @ 12:27PM
"Secular humanists are no more moral relativists than God himself is"
(Ted R. | 12.14.10 @ 4:35PM)
"I think that the Christian concept of sin is depraved"
(Ted R. | 12.14.10 @ 8:34PM)
"There is no evidence that we are "born to sin"
(Ted R. | 12.14.10 @ 11:44PM)
"Christianity really is much, much worse than foolishness. It presents us with nothing less than the unadulterated ideology of absolute tyranny"
(Ted R. | 12.14.10 @ 11:44PM)
Ted R.| 1.14.12 @ 1:29AM
Hey, never knew I was so quotable!
I am an unabashed anti-theist, of course. That's because I take liberty seriously. All moral actors are moral equals. We are no one's slave - no king's might never can deprive a person of their rights.
And true liberty is not just negative liberty, freedom from interference. Real liberty requires positive conditions. To call a person who is poor, sick, and uneducated "free" is to mock his condition. Our freedom is not the feral freedom of the animals. Our freedom is the freedom enjoyed by citizens enjoying equal dignity in a political order where no one is above the law.
Essential to that equal dignity, is true equality of opportunity. This equality does not mandate equal outcomes, only the removal of obstacles to fair competition. We are all entitled to basic goods without which we cannot have a try in society. Goods like law and order, education, and a common decent standard of health care.
Funny how the people who declaim - loudly and often - that (a compassionate?) 'God' is on their side, reject the political implications of our equal dignity. Hmm - then again, there might be a connection.
R is for emotional pRattle| 1.14.12 @ 11:19AM
"Nobody is in hell, because there is no hell"
(Ted R. | 12.6.11:55PM)
"Christianity is nihilism in its purest form"
(Ted R. | 12.6.10 @ 11:55PM)
"Jesus was not particularly original in his moral teachings"
(Ted R. | 12.7.10 @ 10:45PM)
"Jesus was a good man who died for no reason"
(Ted R. | 12.7.10 @ 10:45PM)
James Solbakken | 1.26.12 @ 8:00PM
So, you saw someone poor, sick, and uneducated? Did you help them? Did you feed them? Did you try to cure what ailed them? Did you comfort them? Did you try to inform them and raise their awareness? If you did, then you practiced a sacred rite of Christianity. If you passed by on the other side, then you practiced a vulgar rite of general humanity.
James E Solbakken
Appleby| 1.12.12 @ 7:26AM
One of the things they are secretly afraid of discovering, I suspect, is that the people outside their own little "posse" are better educated and more acquainted with the wide world than they themselves are. When I was younger I travelled the world on $5 a day; that is, I didn't stay in big box hotels exactly like the ones back home, or all-inclusive resorts plopped down and barricaded away from the country. I stayed in converted boxcars, backpacker hostels, tiny little B&Bs; near the railroad station, and motels where the people who lived in that country stayed. I boldly staggered through a part of Switzerland where people thought if they spoke German very loudly to me, I would understand them. (After a brief period of being unable to ask where my hotel in Istanbul was located because, I discovered, it was possible to be bilingual and not speak English, I went home and studied French.) I have wonderful memories of walking along Hadrian's Wall with an English friend, and of our giggles when the B&B where we always stayed conducted us proudly to "a room we've made over just for Americans" in which the firm had installed right in the middle of the bedroom, a shower stall. Once I came home from England with 12 cents in my pocket. I wasn't born on third base and brought up in a hothouse; and many of those who were have said to me, "I wish I could GET TO DO what you have done." You don't GET TO DO things. You do them.
A couple of years after Katrina had emptied out the slums of New Orleans into the normal neighbourhoods of other cities, I heard a young Black mother and father say that Katrina had been the best thing that ever happened to them -- because it forced them out of the little world generations of their family had occupied, and showed them a whole wide world they had never dreamed they could occupy. I hope they speak for many others. I hope the narrow little Occupiers will have this experience some day too.
oldfart| 1.12.12 @ 7:37AM
Spot on about Katrina. Mayor Nagen was scared sh__less that people would not return. Some of those families located to a local city near me, having been sponsored by a local church. The local newspaper interviewed them, and asked them when they were going back. This family said they will never return to New Orleans. They had discovered that there are places with safe streets, safe schools and descent job opportunities to be self supporting. Why go back to a failed society where there one of the few opportunities for youth is the illegal drug industry.
Ivan Ivanovich| 1.12.12 @ 7:38AM
Yes, I know people like that. I remember a Jewish cousin-in-law that freaked out when I said "I like Rummy" and a Kazakh woman that said, in 2007 "Obama will get 70% of the vote”. I funny thing is that my favorite people are the authentic ones like an engineer in Mexico who was 100% Aztec and proudly took me to his home, an Italian fellow whose grandfather fought for Mussolini, and the Russia woman I married. I could go on but you get the idea. If you want diversity you have to travel.
Brian Mc| 1.12.12 @ 7:41AM
If you want diversity, go fishing. Yesterday afternoon, standing at the LD15 on the Mississippi and fishing for walleyes, I had a polite and energetic conversation with two blacks and a hispanic as we elbowed for the best casting position. There is no snobbery when your jig snags a rock. One of them offered me his saugers that I declined, regretfully. He wandered over with the catch towards an asian man as I packed up the truck and headed home.
oldfart| 1.12.12 @ 8:00AM
The author's neo-bohemian friend would not understand your comments. You are in the real world - the bohemian has no relational experience to your comments. They are typically city bound and have never seen a sunrise, or sunset over a mountain range in any season of the year, or seen a fish jump out of the water at first light. Very sad.
Appleby| 1.12.12 @ 11:27AM
One of my fondest memories is a very early morning spent on a lake in New Zealand, ostensibly trolling for trout, in a totally silent boat with a guide (yes, I am squeamish about eviscerating the fish I catch!) and watching the fog on the water lift as the sun came up. The second best part of that day was taking the fish I caught to my hotel, where they were served to me surrounded by fresh vegetables and rice.
Misty Watercolor Memories...| 1.14.12 @ 11:30AM
Taupo?
Andrew B| 1.12.12 @ 7:43AM
My first real awareness of this attitude came during the Giuliani years in New York. A chic, artsy friend was bitterly lamenting what "that man" had done to Times Square, making it clean, safe and attractive. I don't recall this friend ever praising the hookers, pimps and pushers who lurked under the marquee of every porno theater in years previous. She was longing for some mythic past, when New York City was edgy and romantic.
What utter nonsense.
PCC| 1.12.12 @ 8:08AM
The author's morally superior attitude towards the diversity poseurs isn't all that different from the attitude he criticizes them for.
Trebuchet| 1.12.12 @ 8:13AM
We used to call these kinds of people Stuck up A--holes.
JimH| 1.12.12 @ 8:33AM
Some of us still do.
rssg| 1.12.12 @ 8:16AM
Diversity is the mechanism which left-wing progressive use to displace the traditional American culture and people (sorry to all you sensitive types, the USA was founded and built by white people, almost exclusively).
Diversity is achieved by high immigration.
It's the immigration, stoopid.
Say Baptist| 1.12.12 @ 8:42AM
Being cheap I lived in a diverse neighborhood. It was a real neighborhood. However it began to run down hill. I began to run down hill to whit I developed a heart condition. When I could no longer walk up 5 stories,contend for parking spaces or outrun my neighbors I moved.
There is a lot to say in favor of a ranch house and hiring a service to shovel the driveway.
Melvin| 1.12.12 @ 8:48AM
A perfect example of this is on Netflix. It is called Portlandia, I must admit I was born and raised near that horrid city.
Le Cracquere| 1.12.12 @ 12:30PM
I love that city to death, but it does have its issues.
And in its defense, most of our daily issues would be improved if we'd all simply PUT A BIRD ON IT.
Douglas Fletcher | 1.12.12 @ 6:01PM
Just to save anyone tempted to watch "Portlandia," don't bother, unless you like having your face scrunched into an unbelieving, painful pinch at what you are watching. It is absolutely horrible.
Le Cracquere| 1.13.12 @ 8:23AM
Gonna have to dispute that assessment; your mileages may vary widely. For the most part, it cracked me up. But then, I also liked "Tim & Eric."
JKS| 1.12.12 @ 8:49AM
'Diversity' has caused the Balkanization of this country. It has been foisted upon us by people who would love nothing better than to see this country destroyed. Kruschev was right in his prediction. The communists would take this country over without firing a shot. We have one in the White House now.
JA| 1.12.12 @ 8:52AM
The world's biggest hypocrites are city dwellers.
Just go into the hundreds of restaurants on 9th and 10th Ave, betwixt 43 and 55th St. in NYC and you will not see any blacks at all. You will see that the workers are hispanic or russian or ukrainian or brazilian, asian, indian, etc., but NO BLACKS.
Also check out the upper east /west side, Chelsea, Murray Hill or Battery Park City - need I go on; it's all lily white.
Frankly there is far more integration in the deep south then in NYC or Chicago.
White liberal city slickers are phonies, hypocrites. They vote and talk "liberal" because they need to assuage their hypocrisy and need to feel "superior."
What frauds, what phonies.
oldfart| 1.12.12 @ 9:21AM
Anyone remember the worst race riots of the 1960's? They were in LA Detriot, Boston, Chicago, Newark, Oklahoma, New York City, Springfield, IL, Philadelhia, Jersey City, Milwaukee, Camden, NJ and Washington, DC
Yes - there were a few in the South - but nothing like what took place in the North.
Check it out - it is on the web if you care to look.
PolishKnight| 1.12.12 @ 9:35AM
What's interesting about that list is that not even hypocritical leftists are crazy enough to want to live in the _nice_ sections of Camden, Detroit, and Newark. I lived in West St. Louis for a half year and it was not much better than East St. Louis which was a dump.
Ironically, despite all their talk about how great "diversity" is (namely, non-whites), the cities they love to visit (but can't afford to live in) are in Europe and nearly all white. They've ruined most cities in the United States and most of them secretly live in the close suburbs and blow money and/or gasoline commuting in and out.
AhiaGuy| 1.12.12 @ 9:19AM
Hasn't it always been the case that those who consider themselves most sophisticated are, in reality, the most parochial?
Look at any large city: Paris, NYC, LA, etc etc. The inhabitants believe nothing worthwhile exists outside their own metropolis, except possibly in another metropolis.
Douglas Fletcher | 1.12.12 @ 6:02PM
Northern Californians, in my experience, much like what you describe.
Skippy| 1.14.12 @ 4:34PM
Hear, hear!
We need an 8.3 quake to shake these NorCal pussies from their sheltered enclaves and into the streets with their pet minorities.
Betcha that doggie will bite 'em!
hardcard| 1.12.12 @ 9:29AM
Ivan drink plenty vodka.
Fredx| 1.12.12 @ 9:33AM
How true. How unfortunately true. And this mythical, superficial, useless concept extends to our schools (busing), our colleges and workplaces ("affirmative action"), our juries (O.J.), and now our Supreme Court, ostensibly to mete out justice on a sliding scale of race and gender. Just a few examples of the liberal claptrap hijacking our priorities and subverting our true potential in favor of empty feel-good optics.
Dr. X| 1.12.12 @ 9:34AM
If white yuppie snobs want "diversity," they could move to Detroit (where there's plenty of cheap real estate) but their Subarus wouldn't have any wheels in the morning. Instead they congregate in lily-white enclaves like Aspen, Vermont, Maine, and Marin County.
Fact is that that the yuppie leftist scum don't love minorities. Rather, they hate conservatives and conservative values. They rub conservative America's nose with minorities they way you rub a puppy's nose in his own shit when you're housebreaking him.
The neo-bohemians simply don't want personal responsibility, nor do they want responsibility for running this country. They are self-indulgent narcissists. They hate the conservative values of hard work, sobriety, monogamy, patriotism, and going to church on Sunday. Ever since the Sixties, they have upheld the Negroes as virtuous because they want sing, dance, get high and -- especially, above all else -- fuck like Negroes instead of undertaking the awesome responsibility of making a contribution to this great nation.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 9:45AM
Uneducated and unskilled people invaded America, becoming the Democrats constituents and abusing our welfare and social service system.
It's time to seal the southern border.
those invaders hate America and are reluctant to assimilate or embrace the Christian values.
Deport all illegals and pass the E-Verify system.
We must act now.
TMM| 1.12.12 @ 9:48AM
Out here in the wilds of the East Bay, where the poor and middle classes of all races have fled San Francisco in search of affordable housing and safe neighborhoods, I hired an Asian woman from San Francisco to work in the office.
One day she said to me, "I love working here. You have such a wonderful, diverse workforce. How did you do it?"
I replied, "I hired people who showed up for the interviews with good attitudes, prepared to work and knew what they were doing."
Fredx| 1.12.12 @ 10:20AM
I was absent the day "diversity" was declared to be The Holy Grail. I can't look around a room and derive any comfort simply from the variety of faces I see. Your hiring technique resulted in accidental diversity, and that's the only kind I can stomach. Random acts of diversity. Yeah.
TMM| 1.12.12 @ 11:08AM
Sorry. No time to chat. Off to a meeting with the Diversity Committee.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 10:36AM
Diversity City ?
Look at Miami, Washington DC, Baltimore, NY, Houston, and so on. Those cities have become "paradise lost."
They are invaded by those uneducated and unskilled immigrants, soaring poverty and crime, bankrupting our welfare system and the country.
Deport all illegals, and no jobs for illegals.
astorian| 1.12.12 @ 10:51AM
I grew up in New York City, in a neighborhood (I suspect my screen name gives it away!) that meets all the yuppie ideals! It's compact, it's easy to walk around in, has lots of "local" retail stores and restaurants/coffee shops.
I now live in a quasi-suburban neighborhood in Austin, Texas. The kind of neighborhood hipsters HATE, filled as it is with strip malls, chain stores, fast food restaurants, and people who drive practically everywhere. The kind of neighborhood liberals would sneer at as "lily white" and "lacking in diversity."
But the funny thing is... by ANY standard, my "lily-white" quasi-suburban neighborhood is FAR more ethnically, religiously and economically diverse than the New York city neighborhood I grew up in!
I went to Catholic schools in the Sixties and Seventies, which meant that 95% of the people I saw every day were either Irish or Italian. Oh sure, the city as a whole had millions of blacks and Jews, hundreds of thousands of Poles, Chinese, and ____ (fill in any ethnic group you like), but we didn't meet them or interact with them. They had their own neighborhoods, their own social circles, their own enclaves.
At my 8 year old son's most recent birthday parties, we've had black, Korean, Iranian, Mexican, Jewish, Salvadoran and Indian guests. My son has a FAR more diverse group of friends in our uncool, "lily-white" quasi-suburban neighborhood than I ever had in the supposedly diverse Big Apple.
Oldefarte| 1.12.12 @ 11:05AM
Diversity is another in a long line of one-wordisms that liberal-progressive-radicals slander the non's among us with constantly. You're either undiverse, racist, a gentrifier, a discriminator, and disenfranchiser or the like. When asked to go beyond one word, the response is predictably DUH. The intent of the labelers is to divide and [politically] conquer by means of segmentation or segregation obviously, but again, THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRATS DO!!!!!!!!
OregonBuzz| 1.12.12 @ 11:06AM
Based on your description of this person, and some of his peers, I'm glad he doesn't "come out here". I live in rural Oregon and we have our own form of "diversity". Some of us heat our homes with a fireplace or woodstove and we cut our own firewood, but some don't. Some of us fish steelhead while others pefer salmon, and some don't fish at all. Some hunt deer and some don't. I guess you get the idea. Oh, I almost forgot, we have people of Asian descent, we have black residents, though not many and you will find, if you look hard enough people of various other ancestry, Irish, German, Brazilian, etc. Again, I hope that you friend and his ilk stay just where they are. Of course, when the food riots start, the rural areas may appeal. After all we also grow a lot of our own food.
Dick Nome| 1.12.12 @ 11:15AM
What, no yaks or yak meat or yak cheese. You don't know what you are missing. (Never had it either, but Himilayan cuisine is hard to come by here in the mountains of PA.)
OregonBuzz| 1.12.12 @ 11:22AM
I know what you mean. I've had to suffer with butter made from cows milk for nearly 45 years.
spike59| 1.13.12 @ 7:35AM
i've been 'making do' with venison...but it's free range, no preservatives-does that count?
Nina| 1.12.12 @ 11:36AM
Seems to me that in their quest for diversity and political correctness they are themselves more racist than the "European descendents" in their exclusion of whites. How pathetic it must be to watch them try to fit into the "ethnic" population they so longingly wish for all the while as white as the driven snow....laughable really. Who are the racists in their exclusion of all white? Who are the racists in only accepting color of skin as their ruler instead of a person's character and personality, intelligence and kindness to others? What a bunch of hypocrites these self-appointed moral "exclusionists" are. That they think they are better than others because they patronize ethnic businesses. To the owners of these places, they are just another dollar!
PolishKnight| 1.12.12 @ 1:16PM
Nina, did you ever see the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry smugly tries to "help" a Pakistani restaurant owner? He says to himself mentally: "I'm such a good person!" After his advice doesn't help the guy, he blames Jerry for the failure of his business and tells him: "You're a VERY bad man! VERY VERY bad!"
I love the show because Jerry dares to make fun of his own provincial political correctness.
In answer to your question, they don't really feel any personal guilt at being white. They direct that at conservatives and non-believers in Marxism as a tool to dehumanize them. It's been going on for so long, however, that they've forgotten their original motivation and lose sight of all the inconsistencies in their ideology. For example, if "diversity" is so great and essential, does that make mostly white (for now) Sweden a hellhole?
Gladdin| 1.12.12 @ 11:58AM
OK, no doubt there are snobs who live in the city who think they are really cool, but aren't. There are plenty of people in the burbs who hate "the city" and never travel to it.
By judging the inner city snobs, you've committed their crime. Instead - why not enjoy the burbs and visit the city as often as you wish.
Enjoying both worlds while the snobs overpay for coffee. In other words live well and who cares what someone else thinks.
Douglas Fletcher | 1.12.12 @ 6:06PM
Sorry, you didn't make the case. He's not a snob, he's someone who's depressed and annoyed by boobs who take their lifestyle choices as evidence of moral virtue.
cicero| 1.12.12 @ 11:59AM
What our friends on the other side of the "diversity" argument don't seem to get is that their advocacy for diversity is in itself racist. Once you start to count and judge by the color of their skin, or the shape of their faces or eyes, you are using racist criteria. How ludicrous. All jews were demonized to satisfy the political bent of the Nazis, even though less than 1 percent of the German population was jewish. The German people, by and large, didn't even know any jews.
We are witnessing the same thing here. Go to any suburb. This is not 1952. The suburbs are more diverse, racially and ethnically, than the cities. We, in the suburbs, and semi-rural areas tend to judge people by who they are, how they act, and how we relate to one another. I probably talk to a more diverse group while fussing with my vegetgable garden down by the road, than our urban pioneers do eating Thia food, and sipping white wine.
In 21st Century America, we are the most truly diverse, accepting, and culturally integrated people since the high point of the Roman empire. We make our friends based on who the folks are, rather than any stereotyical description. The only time color of skin comes into it, or ethnic tag, is when you are talking to someone who doesn't know the person. Then, you hear things like, "You know Joe, he's the black guy that lives about 4 houses down. My tomatoes beat his all to hell, but his peppers are something to brag about."
Petronius| 1.12.12 @ 12:12PM
I've been on the receiving end of snooty liberal vitriol since I became economically literate. Liberalism is a religion. The day I bought my first share of stock and proudly admitted it, I became the "enemy". When I also declared that I identified with the "aristocracy" as opposed to "the people", I became "white trash". I just smiled and shook my head. The cultural template of the leftist intellectual snot is a product of their schooling and the media. These people are Dr. Price's "avant-roobs". They are totally obsessed and preoccupied with their self images and their hauteur is grounded in equating nobility with belief. Just like the Muslims, they live to point their fingers at tradesmen in their pickups and holler, "infidel!" They get in my face about my beliefs and social attitudes. And when I question them about their bigotry against me, they call me more names and yell, "you don't understand!" They also do not believe in individual Freedom at all. All in all, there are those who get their way and those, like me, who don't. I don't belong to the loudest mob who have arrogated unto themselves the power to police the culture. And as a result we now have none. To them it's all about what and who they like, or not. Our polity is dominated by this concept and the words "I don't like it." Social acceptance is the only weapon on earth more powerful than a nuke. And these bastards use it like the inquisition. This talk about diversity is totally bogus. What that means is we"White" people must accept deviant behavior outside of civilized norms. Well nobody elected this bunch to anything and it's long passed time they got a face full of fist.
darcy| 1.12.12 @ 2:45PM
You write:
"The cultural template of the leftist intellectual snot is a product of their schooling and the media."
I marvel at the timeliness of Mr. Orlet's article. Just last night I was reading the latest "Career Focus" (an 18-page glossy, highlighting programs and services) published, and presumably mailed out to all county residents, by Pima Community College here in Tucson. On page 9 is the story, "Are You Culturally Clueless."
The piece "tests your global workplace aptitude." I found question number four (out of six total) most interesting: "You overhear some people at lunch making disparaging remarks about a foreign-born colleague. You:
a. Tell the people at the table they're ignorant fools.
b. Tell your supervisor or HR executive what you heard, without necessarily mentioning specific names. You also explain why it made you uncomfortable and why it might make others uncomfortable, too.
c. Join in and make a remark, too, so you don't offend the people at the table."
The answer, drum-roll, is b. "It's important to identify intolerance since it can severely affect your co-w0rkers and your company. HR managers need to know so they can provide APPROPRIATE TRAINING." (Emphasize mine.)
So, yes, Petronius, the "leftist intellectual snot is [indeed] a product of their schooling." I noted also that the author of this multicultural swill -- sold under the canopy of "tolerance" -- is the director of the Business Diversity Center at Virginia Tech, the campus of which is in the wider DC metro area.
Tolerance, once a perfectly noble and virtuous attribute meaning "putting up with what is not wholly acceptable," has morphed into a guiding principle among liberals that means "the capacity for or practice of recognizing and RESPECTING the opinions, practices, or behavior of others." You'll note that the second definition "does not allow for such discernments of right or wrong and actually compels one to consider all opinions, practices, and behaviors to be worthy of positive value (as the word RESPECTING requires.)"
Few here would argue that liberal tolerance also extends to white, conservative, and Christian males. No. Liberals practice selective tolerance, the type of tolerance that classifies people according to groups which they can then manipulate for their own -- often nefarious -- purposes.
The quoted material in paragraph six is from "What In the World Is Going On? by David C. Thompson, 2010, Northwestern Publishing House.
albert constantine jr.| 1.12.12 @ 11:04PM
Of course, though, I seem to recall that Pima County is the jurisdiction that kept electing Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who blamed the Tea Party for the shooting of Rep. G. Gifford and others last year, and ignored the fact that his department had repeatedly failed to deal with the mentally unbalanced behavior at said Pima County Community College. That they would get "diversity" wrong too is only the latest feather in their collective caps.
VinnieCCT| 1.12.12 @ 12:18PM
It is these "bohemians" that reveal their own ignorance and racism by judging a person's diverseness by nothing more than the color of their skin.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 12:46PM
90% of blacks and Hispanics are uneducated, and contribute to poverty and crime. They are lazy and love to live on welfare. They're bankrupting our nation.
LBJ gave "blank checks" to those blacks and Hispanics, providing them "affirmative action" in education and an unsustainable welfare society.
Nothing will empower the minority unless they realize that they cannot compete with Whites, and work hard to achieve it.
SeymourGlass| 1.12.12 @ 6:59PM
90%, you say.
Then again, you may be right. "Uneducated" is a status you're obviously familiar with.
wolflen| 1.12.12 @ 1:52PM
santa monica ca is the epitome of "white guilt on steroids" a small city 88k - 88% white..but we have the "pico neighborhood" where poor black hispanic and myself live..the city council (all white folks) keeps reminding everyone at the meetings that santa monica supports "affordable housing" and diversity..in fact..recently a car wash was "unionized" .. and the city council appeared and supported the new union workers (the union is the "steelworkers of america" by the way) yes the workers are all hispanic mostly if not all illegal..so the city council celebrates a bunch of thugs-the union-preying on illegal workers..
ahhh what price diversity..
white guilt has no limits
ray rieber| 1.12.12 @ 1:52PM
What sad, sad people. What a burden it must be to be so morally superior and feel the need to change the world to your own world vision. Now go home and clean your room.
fmm| 1.12.12 @ 3:19PM
The annual contest at Duke University for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term yielded the following for, "Political Correctness":
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."
Seems to fit the people you reference here.
Petronius| 1.12.12 @ 3:53PM
Re: fmm
Interesting take but way off base.
"Political Correctness is the doctrine fostered and inflicted by the arrogant, delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by the unscrupulous mainstream media upon traditional, normal, heterosexual Christian Americans, which holds forth the proposition that validation in life comes from picking up pieces of shit ejected from ethnic minorities and shoving them down the throats of all who disagree with Liberal diktat.
KennesawJack| 1.12.12 @ 5:33PM
Quite frankly, I find both defintions to be admirably descriptive and intend to use them liberally (sic!) from now on. Although, Petronius, I find the defintion by a Duke University student to be more appealing only because of its origin. The kid is probably an MBA candidate at the Fuqua school and will be a blessing to whomever hires him or her.
Petronius| 1.12.12 @ 7:33PM
I'll buy that, owing to the young man's youth and inexperience. I hope he gets up enough nerve to sponsor a German appreciation day at Duke and spend a few hundred bucks to have their marching band play Wedemannsheil in front of the girls dorms. Wearing lederhozen is optional.
Skippy| 1.14.12 @ 4:48PM
Deutchland, deutchland uber alles!
david| 1.12.12 @ 3:56PM
this is really about the power struggle/demographic war against white working/middle class America via mass immigration
Petronius| 1.12.12 @ 7:51PM
Close david
It's a war about and against white middle class Self Interest. As White middle class Americans, the Liberals consider us to be unjust and cruel because we will not repudiate Our birthright; namely, empire building at the personal level. That is Our Cultural zenith. We are constantly pilloried for wanting to make it while the sloth of those who refuse to give in to "the man" gets celebrated.
Pat| 1.12.12 @ 4:35PM
Here in California, many average citizens have self-nominated themselves as sheriff of this or that form of political correctness. We have folks like the Asian woman in this article who have setup their own rules for “what’s right” and aren’t shy about telling others how to behave. We even have folks who criticize you for using too much water – no seriously, unless your lips are sucking from the drinking fountain or if you leave the water running in the restroom sink while you dry your hands, you could easily hear about it from the vigilante Water Marshalls.
Political correctness was born around the time of the Vietnam war when today’s aging Baby Boomers really mastered the finer points of hate. Today, an old Boomer will assure you he or she hated the war but loved our young soldiers. Boy, what a lie - hypocrisy is just another of our Boomers many character flaws. No, the livid hate spewed at our returning soldiers was very real, those of us who were there at the time can verify that.
The young Boomers of that former era hated our soldiers far more than the Viet Cong and weren’t shy about expressing their hatred. But once they grew a little older, those former intense emotions frightened them and so political correctness was born as a direct counter reaction. “We hate you baby killers” became “We hated the war, but we didn’t hate our soldiers, they were only trying to serve their country”. Sort of damning them with faint praise but the guilt and embarrassment over their former conduct spawned political correctness as a means of atonement. What you really feel doesn’t matter, it’s how you act and what you say that does. And today’s young folks, who weren’t alive during the Viet Nam war, have embraced political correctness without knowing or even caring how it came to be. Someday our Boomers will pass into history but their legacy will live on.
Bill| 1.12.12 @ 4:36PM
...if these sixties leftover flower children were more concerened about working for a living and adding a value to society they probably would'nt have time for their childish blather...Soros sock puppets.
DRed| 1.12.12 @ 5:19PM
There's no way that story about the asian woman is true.
spike59| 1.13.12 @ 7:38AM
i don't doubt it for a moment; i've known plenty of people like that, which is one of the many reasons i live in the country-
Skippy| 1.14.12 @ 4:49PM
You obviously don't get out much.
Steve Carr| 1.12.12 @ 5:34PM
You nailed it, Christopher.
Having grown up "out there" in the Midwest, I worked for years in Manhattan and saw this pretense every day. One guy with whom I worked and socialized seems an archetype. Although he grew up in a classic Long Island suburb, he tried to shed his middle class skin faster than you can say, "Do want fries with that?"
He graduated from Amherst, dressed perpetually in black, lived in Tribeca, frequented the edgiest bars and restaurants (where the non-dress code tolerated a diversity of shades of black) and he was proud to remind us that he was a "public school, National Endowment for the Arts, union kind of guy...through and through." Although sometimes he would say them in different order.
Strangely, his choice of employment was a monolithic, pre-divestiture, cradle-to-grave, telecommunications company. I'm told that large corporations are the home of considerably less evolved and edgy types like myself -- not my avant co-worker who seemed more comfortable in line at the Angelika Film Center in Soho. Yet after a year at this company, dull, conformist me found it so stultifying I quit to start freelancing.
In contrast, my midnight-clothed iconoclast stayed on, embraced the endless layers of bureaucracy, became a solid member of middle management, moved from Tribeca to a tony enclave in Connecticut on the "Sound" and this "public school kid" put all of his kids in private schools.
I've always thought that was quite a transformation. Although I'm told he still has his "Coexist" sticker on the Beemer.
PolishKnight| 1.13.12 @ 9:48AM
It's rather hard to fully embrace the "free market" corporate friendly traditional Republican stance when so many large corporations have embraced diversity and corporate welfare and hire illegals or H1Bs who vote Democrat the moment they get citizenship.
The Democrats have many many flaws, but they understand the importance of generating an electorate and getting them out to vote.
POST American| 1.12.12 @ 10:05PM
---------------------FINAL WORD-----------------------
"Understand, 'Diversity' was brought in
by the Globalists over a century ago to
neutralize and degrade the REAL, the
GENUINE cultures on the ground.
You want cultural diversity? ---you'll
find its reality in border towns and
treaty ports. In other words, Old Shanghai
and Tiajuana. ---That's cultural diversity
with political correctness and Globalist
USURY values ---in action."
-POST American
"My land is where my people are buried."
-Crazy Horse
ANY QUESTIONS?
albert constantine jr.| 1.12.12 @ 11:07PM
and don't forget that crazy Star Wars bar scene...
Tom of the Missouri| 1.13.12 @ 1:15AM
I grew up in a small town of 400 people in a rural area of Illinois about 100 miles from St. Louis. In a large part of my adult life I lived in another very Liberal area of St. Louis, the inner suburb of University City, near that $50g per year Liberal bastion school called Washington University. Approximately half of U-City is very middle to upper-middle class but uniformly Liberal and mostly white. The highest value of the town's leaders and citizens which is constantly being touted is "diversity" and many there often brag about their morally superiority to other St. Louis communities due to such so called diversity. Like say Santa Monica or San Francisco they often enshrine these values in ridiculous ordinances to everyone's delight. Another separate part of the town is mostly middle to lower middle class blacks and is of course clearly separated from the white part. In my opinion the blacks are more sensible but their is a large overlap in values with their richer white nearby neighbors. My typical Liberal U-city neighbor once asked me what it was like growing up in a small town where everyone was the same and where I did not have the wonderful diversity of a place like University City. To the neighbor's shock and amazement I politely explained that I felt that U-city was the most non diverse place I had ever lived because of the sheer universality of beliefs and thoughts of a place that worshipped their so called diversity in their safe little protected homogenous enclaves. By contrast where I grew up in my small town every day I experienced true diversity. I was intimate friends with some of the richest people in town and some of the poorest and spent countless hours in the homes of each and they in mine. For example an old girlfriend married a local oil man and when she was not traveling to and from her remote resort condominiums drove around town in a convertible Rolls Royce. In contrast another friend's whole family were life long welfare types whose family get togethers often involved drunken adults having violent fights in the living room (sometimes involving guns) during Christmas. Such diverse types were usually next door neighbors instead of being separated into separate homogeneous neighborhoods. The political views ran the full spectrum, too. That was true diversity as I kindly explained to my neighbor to her shock and amazement. I doubt she had every had any friends let alone spent years in the homes of life long welfare types that dropped out of high school in 8th grade, even though she no doubt considered herself the champion of them. I thus totally share the disgust with these city liberal types, especially the well to do ones, and their so called diversity so well herein derided by the author and other commenters.
PolishKnight| 1.13.12 @ 11:32AM
(I'm thinking of the old Mr. Rogers' song: "Won't you be my neighbor?")
I remember growing up in Wilkes-Barre in the 70's which was a classic east coast rust bucket and despite the school being mostly white, there was a stronger element of diversity in thought than in the Northern DC metro area I work in today. Poles, Germans, and Italians had both shared values and differences which mixed amazingly well. I knew every neighbor for about 5 blocks square. We had wealthy neighbors living next to poor ones.
By contrast, the left has built neighborhoods which lack diversity even by their definition: Whites and Asian neighborhoods are upper and middle class while the lower class neighborhoods are largely dominated by non-whites/Asians. Ironically, conservatives tend to generate more affordable neighborhoods perhaps because their values don't require pricing others out of the neighborhood....
POST American| 1.13.12 @ 6:16AM
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(yesterday)
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--------------TOILET PAPER.
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spike59| 1.13.12 @ 7:43AM
bazinga!