Anti-Discrimination: fools foolin' with human nature

Kalb hits another home run.

Freedom, Discrimination and Culture
Jim Kalb, pinc

"An extraordinarily radical and destructive feature of the civil rights laws is their attack on the significance of culture. 'Racial discrimination' does not depend on race in a biological sense. If all inherited racial differences vanished tomorrow the intangible aspects of ethnicity -- common memories, loyalties and culture -- would still give rise to a sense of separate identity that would lead to discrimination. The civil rights laws would be useless if an employer could get off the hook by saying he was not discriminating on the basis of white Anglo-Saxon race but simply preferred employees with WASP attitudes and manners.

Cultural discrimination must therefore be forbidden if the civil rights laws are to achieve their goal. However, culture can not be separated from how men carry on practical life. When close cooperation is required it is absurd to ignore the things that give us our sense of who we are. 'Cultural differences' mean that people who differ in ethnicity differ in upbringing, and taking upbringing into account is no less reasonable than taking formal education into account. An ethnic culture, after all, is a system of habits and attitudes that has grown up among people who have dealt with each other for a very long time, and it continues to exist because it is an aid to living and working together. There would be no Little Italys or Chinatowns if those who shared such things gained nothing by staying together. The civil rights laws prohibit recognizing the public functions of culture; since culture exists in relation to its functions, the effect is to require its destruction."

Why is it that those who insist we "celebrate diversity" get the most up in arms about the opinions of those who recognize that the mere concept of "diversity" inherently means that there are intractable differences between people and cultures and ethnicities that makes it silly to even attempt to enforce their association by legislative or judicial fiat? Clearly, what the "diversity seekers" really want is to enforce the opposite, usually to the detriment of the majority that rightfully holds the franchise.

Note to E.D.: Don't you realize that eventually there will be blowback for being so vicious in pushing your silly minority opinions? You, more than anyone I know, needs to read Kalb's article and his other work.

You're in a mine field. Watch your step.