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发帖数: 6571 | 1 Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos
Victor Davis Hanson
Posted: Aug 25, 2016 12:01 AM
Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations
throughout history.
The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls and myriad
other African, Asian and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas
corpus and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own
particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity had won out but would soon
prove a fatal liability.
Rome disintegrated when it became unable to assimilate new influxes of
northern European tribes. Newcomers had no intention of giving up their
Gothic, Hunnish or Vandal identities.
The propaganda of history's multicultural empires -- the Ottoman, the
Russian, the Austro-Hungarian, the British and the Soviet -- was never the
strength of their diversity. To avoid chaos, their governments bragged about
the religious, ideological or royal advantages of unity, not diversity.
Nor did more modern quagmires like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Rwanda or
Yugoslavia boast that they were "diverse." Instead, their strongman leaders
naturally claimed that they shared an all-encompassing commonality.
When such coerced harmony failed, these nations suffered the even worse
consequences of diversity, as tribes and sects turned murderously upon each
other.
For some reason, contemporary America believes that it can reject its
uniquely successful melting pot to embrace a historically dangerous and
discredited salad-bowl separatism.
Is there any evidence from the past that institutionalizing sects and ethnic
grievances would ensure a nation's security, prosperity and freedom?
America's melting pot is history's sole exception of E pluribus unum
inclusivity: a successful multiracial society bound by a common culture,
language and values. But this is a historic aberration with a future that is
now in doubt.
Some students attending California's Claremont College openly demand
roommates of the same race. Racially segregated "safe spaces" are fixtures
on college campuses.
We speak casually of bloc voting on the basis of skin color -- as if a
lockstep Asian, Latino, black or white vote is a good thing.
We are reverting to the nihilism of the old Confederacy. The South's "one-
drop rule" has often been copied to assure employers or universities that
one qualifies as a minority.
Some public figures have sought to play up or invent diversity advantages.
Sometimes, as in the cases of Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal and Ward
Churchill, the result is farce.
Given our racial fixations, we may soon have to undergo computer scans of
our skin colors to rank competing claims of grievance.
How does one mete out the relative reparations for various atrocities of the
past, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the American Indian wars, the Asian
or Catholic exclusion laws, indentured servitude, or the mid-18th-century
belief that the Irish were not quite human?
Sanctuary cities, in the manner of 1850s Richmond or Charleston invoking
nullification, now openly declare themselves immune from federal law. Does
that defiance ensure every city the right to ignore whatever federal laws it
finds inconvenient, from the filing of 1040s to voting laws?
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2016/08/25/diversity-historys-pathway-to-chaos-n2209576 | t*******d
发帖数: 12895 | | Y******e
发帖数: 985 | 3 强调diversity是米油的基本国策。米油历史上被杀怕了，总结出这个diversity的法宝
。 | g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 4 “For some reason, contemporary America believes that it can reject its
uniquely successful melting pot to embrace a historically dangerous and
discredited salad-bowl separatism.”
——两个比喻用得好！melting pot，虽然还保留一些特质，但融汇融化在一起了，而
salad bowl，各种民族都倔倔的保持自己的一切，根本不成其为一个整体，迟早搞分裂
。 | b*********0
发帖数: 1441 | 5 这可能就是少数民族的悲哀。
diversity概念本身并没有错，错在现代这帮左蜂完全滥用这个旗号来达到自己龌龊的
目的。文章里面说的coerced harmony完全就是现状。要是犹太人搞出来的，真和国内
的和谐社会一个意思，跟中国人怎么这么像。
【在 Y******e 的大作中提到】
: 强调diversity是米油的基本国策。米油历史上被杀怕了，总结出这个diversity的法宝
: 。
| c*******1
发帖数: 460 | 6 犹太人自己内部可不讲DIVERSITY.
犹太人杀人杀的也不少， 也不是省油的灯。
【在 Y******e 的大作中提到】
: 强调diversity是米油的基本国策。米油历史上被杀怕了，总结出这个diversity的法宝
: 。
| j*******r
发帖数: 412 | 7 粥里放些枣可能更有风味，粥里放些屎呢？
为了追求Diversity而强行放的东西都是好的吗？ | g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 8 LOL
【在 j*******r 的大作中提到】
: 粥里放些枣可能更有风味，粥里放些屎呢？
: 为了追求Diversity而强行放的东西都是好的吗？
| r***i
发帖数: 9780 | 9 太有道理了
左逼就是为了多元而多元，就是为了混乱
【在 j*******r 的大作中提到】
: 粥里放些枣可能更有风味，粥里放些屎呢？
: 为了追求Diversity而强行放的东西都是好的吗？
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