The word ‘Diversity’ has been co-opted by the modern radical left, and deviously twisted for a sinister ulterior motive. Patently unrecognisable from it’s historic definition, it is today a cudgel wielded over our heads in order to enforce the silencing of any minorities that the ruling Marxist elites don’t approve of.
You don’t nurture diversity by making everyone think and speak alike, you nurture it by encouraging the expression of differences and respecting those differences for their value within the diverse environment, for the fact that they create the only diversity therein!
Whether you like or dislike one particular element of that diverse environment is utterly irrelevant. In fact, it’s pretty much a requirement that you dislike parts of it. The more diversity you have, the more likely it becomes that there will be things you don’t like, maybe even despise. To put it bluntly, if you don’t dislike some of the stuff around you, then you’re not living in a very diverse environment! That’s diversity folks!
It wasn’t meant to be enjoyable for you, surprised as you may be, it was meant to be…. effective and beneficial to you and everyone else over the long term. Just like medicine, it can sometimes taste a bit foul but you take it for it’s long-term benefits to your health and well-being, not for the short-term gratification of your very unique and personal tastes.
If you doubt my claim that the word ‘diversity’ has been twisted or ‘re-engineered’, it won’t take you long to test me on it. Take a few seconds to look it up in any old dictionary you have lying around (try the “Pre-Marxist” edition if you can find one).
This is one of the benefits of being a bit older, some of us can actually remember a distant point in time when the word was used to mean something other than ‘non-white’, which is obviously all it means today. At least that’s the only context in which you’ll find it used today.
I’ll have you know: There are such things as diversity of wildlife, diversity of numbers, diversity of sounds, diversity of…. dare I say it…. opinions!
The original definition of this Latin-derived word is, roughly-speaking, difference. Here’s the 1828 definition, and I am quite fond of the word they used: Dissimilitude. In fact I’d better post a screenshot of it before it ‘disappears’ into the ether, alongside every other inconvenient truthful historic record:
So diversity is synonymous with ‘variety’. You don’t get variety out of a dogmatic dictatorship of ideas, you get the very opposite. True lovers of diversity understand this, and this is how I know the radical left want zero diversity, they just abuse the term for their own typically malevolent purposes.
‘They’ are diverse, because ‘they’ are them. ‘We’ are not diverse, because ‘we’ are ‘unlike them’. It couldn’t be more fubar! ‘We’ are the diversity of our time!
‘They’ are conformity, stagnation, philosophical emptiness and intellectual mediocrity. And they intend to enforce their dishonest dominance without restraint, preventing real diversity having any opportunity to flourish. They just can’t risk it, you see.
We, the conservatives or traditional liberals (or the far-right Nazis, whichever term you prefer, they are apparently synonymous anyway) are the new minority, the new persecuted ‘other’, the deplorables, the unmentionables.
Well it’s high time we took a stand against this, before it goes so far that we can not retrieve any kind of true equal rights in society. The key to this, the real clincher, will be winning back the right to speak freely without fear of persecution or violence. Clearly we need look no further than Carl Benjamin, Jared Taylor, Paul Joseph Watson, Tommy Robinson or many others to see that we have lost that right already. But ever the optimist, I won’t concede defeat just yet, and I urge you not to either.
It’s time to speak our mind, come what may.
It may be difficult, it may well even be dangerous, but I have always rooted for the underdog and I am not about to stop now, especially given that I am now an underdog myself. Free speech is under attack everywhere in the West, and if it is allowed to die then we shall have no means by which to revive all the other freedoms that will surely follow like lemmings over the cliff-edge, into the void, into the trash can of history.
All of our known freedoms came from humble beginnings: words and ideas. Once challenging subjects can no longer be discussed, especially for fear of offending someone (giving anyone the power to prevent dialogue by claiming offence), then no old ideas can be fixed or improved, and no new ideas can be born. In my view that would ring the death-knell of western liberal democracy as we know it, or at least as we once knew it.
Are things as bad as Soviet Russia or Maoist China? No, of course not, not yet at least. But it’s a very slippery slope, and it gets steeper and a whole lot more slippery once it becomes acceptable to silence or de-platform a perfectly honest and law-abiding citizen who expresses an opinion which someone else disagrees with. Even more so when the majority of people disagree with it.
That is the entire essence of traditional liberalism and the tolerance it affords to minorities. The same should apply to minority opinions too, after all, what use is freedom and ‘equality’ if it only applies to the majority? It serves no purpose whatsoever unless it stands up for the weakest or most ‘dissimilar’ among us, those whom the dogged masses would see hunted down like witches and burned at the stake. And we all know examples of those don’t we"?
The UK and the west in general is a great place to live. If you dispute that, firstly I would be interested to know where you’d rather be. Secondly I would suggest you go and have a chat with any immigrant escaping a ‘third-world’ country to head this way with hopes and aspirations for freedom, prosperity, safety, opportunity, and the blind justice which is rarely found in countries which haven’t embraced English common-law principles.
It is no coincidence that the world’s poorest and most oppressed people appear to exclusively choose ‘the West’ as their destination for seeking a better life. It is no accident that liberalism and democratic principles were born in Christian western nations. That does not mean they are unilaterally superior to any of the other great nations and cultures around this diverse planet (see what I did there?), but it makes it even more of a tragedy if we westerners, of all people, were to devolve into tyranny, censorship, and ultimately fascism.
God knows, the 20th Century provided ample evidence for us to know the dangers of that, particularly when conducted by radically left-wing ideologues under the guise of ‘doing good’ or enforcing their own brand of ‘higher morality’ to make us all ‘better’ people, at gunpoint if needed. ‘Better’ is, of course, subjective in the extreme, and anyone who believes they are fit to make that call on behalf of humanity, they are the very last people who can be trusted to do so, or to hold any position of power over others whatsoever.
1964 - Free Speech Movement sign under Sather Gate – University Archives photo, courtesy of Bancroft Library.
The horrors of a society without civil-liberties are known to all of us, although some know a lot more than others. It is my firm belief that the one and only thing we need to preserve, in order to avoid such horrors for ourselves and our children, is our right to speak freely.
It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s everything we’ve ever had, and everything we ever will have, if we manage to retain it. It’s the beating heart of any free and civilised society.