So, in my last post, I wrote the following:
And I don’t say this because of the whole blah blah blah more voices blah blah blah diversity blah blah blah Wax Ecstatic Distribution Curve of Lefty Sunshine Love blah blah blah anything with the word “minority” is autogood blah blah blah thin, although I suppose that there’s a lot of that to consider, too. (Sorry, Ali, I just cannot stand the self-righteousness of most such things. ;->)
On a site called Plural Politics, which is further dedicated to new ways of thinking about politics, that’s a pretty provocative thing to say. I’d like to explain myself a little bit.
I think that my beef with people who are into diversity is that they think of it as being an end, and not a means, in one case, and as a cause rather than a symptom, in the other. Provocative? Read on. […]