Monday, June 24, 2013

When President Obama sees real diversity, he doesn't like it

Once again, we have a so-called liberal criticizing diversity in the name of Diversity.

We go now to Geoffrey Norman at the Weekly Standard:
On his trip to Europe, the president accomplished a sort of synthesis of these contrary impulses, stigmatizing his enemies in the name of unity and harmony. The enemy, in this case, being the Catholic church. Or, at least, its tradition of establishing schools. As Charlie Spiering writes in the Washington Examiner, the president told an audience in Northern Ireland: 
“If towns remain divided, if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division.” 
One wonders if the president is willing to push his argument to its logical conclusion and lecture Muslim audiences as to why they should close the madrassas.
Just another indication that the "diversity" the Tolerance Police are talking about is only diversity if they agree with you.

5 comments:

KyCobb said...

A little context, Martin. The President wasn't talking about American parochial schools, that lots on non-catholics attend. he is talking about Northern Ireland, where people who have everything in common except their religion are kept separate all their lives and taught to hate and fear each other.

KyCobb said...

Martin,

Being the great champion of diversity that you are, I'm sure you are pleased that the Feds will no longer be able to discriminate between couples lawfully married by the states.

Lee said...

> where people who have everything in common except their religion are kept separate all their lives and taught to hate and fear each other.

Agreed, we don't do that sort of thing in the U.S., and particularly not in the news and entertainment media.

For example, TV shows wouldn't dream of heaping scorn and ridicule on someone just for being born in the Deep South, West Virginia, or any of the "fly-over states." The most toothless redneck in Mississippi and the editor and readers of the New Yorker magazine are comrades.

And President Obama would never dream of calling rural Pennsylvanians "bitter clingers". That would be, you know, divisive and contentious.

KyCobb said...

And Romney wouldn't dream of calling nearly half of Americans government dependents who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. Some times politicians say stupid things.

Anonymous said...

Every day that goes by, more and more Americans are seeing this man for the flim-flam artist that he has always been.