Ben Boychuck has a nice take on the whole “Diversity is our Strength” meme. The article on American Greatness ends in the middle and has a link so I linked to the whole article on the Sacramento Bee. He makes a good point.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article189654789.html
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.- Conventional wisdom on the efficacy of accepting falsehoods
That’s for damn sure. I used to be sure that the Bushes were on my side.
I too thought that the Bushes were on our side, or at least conservative, fine – Republicans then?
No? OK. Lesson learned. Knowing what I know now, I’d still vote for W over Gore or Kerry, but I’d know to watch him more carefully.
As to “Diversity is our strength” I once had a student hit me with that one. He said “The most important thing is diversity”. I replied that excellence was the most important thing. He disagreed, so I challenged him to a thought experiment:
Your mother has brain cancer. The tumor is operable but the operation will be tricky. You have a choice in surgical teams. Team one is made up of the best practitioners in their fields. They happen to all be white men.
Team two is a group chosen for diversity. It contains people from varied ethnic, economic groups, sexuality and genders.
Which one do you want operating on your mother?
The student walked away without answering.
Well, it was an excellent example, maybe it even made him think!
Yeah, W is better than Gore or Kerry but he fooled me into thinking we could win with him. Sorry JEB!, time to try a new option. Happy New Year Dave.