Guest Post by Todd Hayen
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal…
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A recurring theme in movies, television, and literature, is the “big lie.”
We’ve always heard the adage, “if you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, more people will believe it.” I think the original version of that quote is attributed to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Although like with most historical references, Goebbels may never have said this.
Anyway, might as well say he did, eh? Easy enough.
“Diversity” and the efforts toward achieving it, as described by the agenda, is a lie. A Big Lie. So is “inclusion” and “equity”—nice ideas, and in a sane world, nice ideals to work toward. But in our current “Bizarro World,” all lies. In fact, as you well know, most of everything out there instigated and implemented by the “government” are lies. Big ones.
Sad but true.
Why are these things labelled “Big Lies” and not just plain ‘ol little lies? The “woke culture” calls anyone who points out diversity as a bigot or racist. For example, if a person comments on the unique apparel of an ethnic group he runs the risk of being called a racist. A person who comments on an attribute of a particular race (good or bad), he is called a profiling bigot. If someone recognizes diversity and points it out, he is a racist. You don’t honour diversity by cancelling anything that is culturally diverse. That doesn’t make sense. Since these things have worked their way into the culture so deeply, identifying them and labelling them the way the culture does, qualifies as a big lie.
I wrote a previous article about this titled: “Pseudo-diversity”. The points I made then are slightly different than the points I am making now, but all similar. Here is a quote from that article that falls more in alignment with today’s thoughts:
It seems I am stumbling with the term “diversity.” Isn’t that what all the fuss is about these days? Everyone seems to want to be identified and seen as unique, but at the same time they wish to have no uniqueness at all. The culture seems to be wanting to cancel out any thought, thing, idea, concept, skill, culture, biology, gender/sex, that claims uniqueness, a strength or weakness, a difference good or bad, but at the same time wants a unique title for all this as well as a recognized exclusivity. Inclusivity and exclusivity: there seems to be no tolerance for sameness, but also no tolerance for difference. Now THAT’S the formula for a mess.
At the time that I wrote this, I was a bit perplexed as to why such a thing was happening. As with most stuff happening these days, it just didn’t make sense. Why would they say one thing and then do another?
Why would the “woke culture” be so ready to decimate someone for a “non-inclusionary” remark, yet at the same time advocate the blind acceptance of such unique and eclectic views, not understanding that such unique and eclectic people are by their very nature are “not included.”
Am I the only one who sees this paradox? For a culture to truly be accepting of diversity, that culture must first allow diversity and not be so focused on making everyone the same—and thus unnoticeable. There is a fine line between bigoted prejudice and tolerance.
Tolerance is the operative word in a stabilized society. Tolerance, flexibility, and resilience are on the side of the “unique, diverse, individual or group.” As well as with the “majority” group which may be accused of cultural bigotry.
Yes, hateful prejudice is a trait to attempt to eliminate, but not a realization that people are different. We must encourage an awareness of differences, and along with awareness of differences, people should be allowed, within reason, to express their awareness of those differences. “Oh look, that man is black, that person has a penis but is dressed like a woman, these people are different than I am, I notice that, and I accept it, but some of it may make me uncomfortable.”
Maybe some of it I don’t like, and if I feel it encroaches on my own quality of life, I may express that fact without violence or hate. (A clear example of this is the plethora of trans “storytelling” events in elementary schools. Cannot we reject such activities without being labelled hateful toward trans persons?)
To force people (through shaming) to love every lifestyle choice people make, and if they don’t, to then be accused of being bigots, or worse, are arrested for a human rights violation, is not a good thing. People should be allowed to be different. This axiom does not only apply to people who are attempting to be contrary to the “middle of the bell curve majority,” but also to people who are in the “middle of the bell curve majority.” They have just as much right to be accepted for who they are, including their own beliefs about self and worldview, and not be bullied or legally threatened into agreeing with choices they simply do not agree with (such as a requirement to address people by their chosen pronoun.)
Yes, there is a grey area with all of this, and I do not mean to be bulldozing through this grey area with my sweeping comments. Although in my own personal worldview, I believe people even have the right to be racist, as long as they do not hurt anyone through their bigotry. I also believe a “better society” is created if these bigotries are eliminated. I believe the core of bigotry is a natural suspicion of differences. More integrated humans are less threatened by other people’s differences. Although we may have a “right” to be threatened, it generally makes for a better society if we are not.
“Live and let live” is the fundamental model for peaceful co-existence here. And we have, throughout our human history, tried to make a go of it. It is only recently that we seem to be making some serious inroads in this regard—until the agenda came along and mucked it all up. In other words, I do not believe that what we are experiencing regarding this insane “woke” crap is a natural organic phenomenon. The devil is making us do it, maybe quite literally.
Once again, the carrot-to-stick tactic is being used. The carrot is the noble ideal of diversity, equity, and inclusion to all people of all cultures and ethnicities. Yeah, that’s nice, we can go along with that! But then tell us all that we are despicable human beings for thinking men with penises and testicles should not be competing in women’s sports, or that a person of colour should not get the top brain surgeon position when they are not the most competent.
Tell us we are bigots and transphobic if we don’t believe we should be required to guess someone’s fantasy pronouns and wind up in jail or with a hefty fine if we fail. Tell us we are wrong to think of certain cultures as having certain identifiable traits, particularly from different periods in history (such as a person born and raised in the Chinese tradition having particular dress attributes) without being accused of extreme insensitivity and a disgusting violator of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Then we are punished for actually recognizing that people are different. And we are being punished for believing that not everyone is entitled to every prize out there, but indeed some people who have worked hard, or shown a particular skill are “included” in a special group exploiting those gifts, and others are indeed excluded.
That is equity. Where is the equity in making everyone the same, everyone, regardless of their specialness or uniqueness or skill or talent or hard work, being herded into a singular “sameness” with everyone else?
Don’t fall for this DEI carrot. It is a big lie and a nasty one at that. It creates resentment, anger, frustration, confusion, and sadness. And above all, it creates the opposite of what it claims to create.
Just what the doctor ordered, and we all know where orders from the doctor lead us.
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“It seems I am stumbling with the term “diversity.” Isn’t that what all the fuss is about these days? Everyone seems to want to be identified and seen as unique, but at the same time they wish to have no uniqueness at all. The culture seems to be wanting to cancel out any thought, thing, idea, concept, skill, culture, biology, gender/sex, that claims uniqueness, a strength or weakness, a difference good or bad, but at the same time wants a unique title for all this as well as a recognized exclusivity. Inclusivity and exclusivity: there seems to be no tolerance for sameness, but also no tolerance for difference. Now THAT’S the formula for a mess.”
It’s called pretending. Woke sociopaths want everyone to look different, but think the same.
I also believe the woke bullshit is a manufactured distraction for the masses like everything else
These folk are soo damn far down the proverbial supply lines that they honestly really have no conception of how the proverbial sausage is made . So you end up with a Soylent green situation , “surprise ,surprise” ( Gomer Pyle ) . No I really mean it xcept according to that other long winded ass article it requires like “5th level thinking ” or something to make the connection to my statement and the overall thrust of the article . The world of unreality is ultimately, and invisibly to its inhabitants ,propped up by the world of reality where the sometimes ugly and or uncomfortable realities exist . Like for instance if you are one of these people and live in certain parts of the country and own what you believe is an electric vehicle, it isn’t , its probably coal powered , but its convenient to the bubble dwellers to believe the simpleton thing about it . never mind the slave labor that goes into those batteries and so forth( the” supply line ” allegory ). Whats it all about ? “Moral hazards “, in economics jargon . I dont fuckin know , but its the best I could come up with , and I just gotta pipe in here for some reason, as usual, I cant seem to help myself .Have a wonderful Sunday “you crazy diamonds ” ( quotation marks , indicate me not plagurizing ).
Bill Ackman’s enlightenment on DEI
I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment.
Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant.
I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more.
What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology.
Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.”
Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist.
As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology.
In order to be deemed anti-racist, one must personally take action to reverse any unequal outcomes in society. The DEI movement, which has permeated many universities, corporations, and state, local and federal governments, is designed to be the anti-racist engine to transform society from its currently structurally racist state to an anti-racist one.
After the death of George Floyd, the already burgeoning DEI movement took off without any real challenge to its problematic ideology. Why, you might ask, was there so little pushback? The answer is that anyone who dared to raise a question which challenged DEI was deemed a racist, a label which could severely impact one’s employment, social status, reputation and more. Being called a racist got people cancelled, so those concerned about DEI and its societal and legal implications had no choice but to keep quiet in this new climate of fear.
The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades past. If you challenge DEI, “justice” will be swift, and you may find yourself unemployed, shunned by colleagues, cancelled, and/or you will otherwise put your career and acceptance in society at risk.
The DEI movement has also taken control of speech. Certain speech is no longer permitted. So-called “microaggressions” are treated like hate speech. “Trigger warnings” are required to protect students. “Safe spaces” are necessary to protect students from the trauma inflicted by words that are challenging to the students’ newly-acquired world views. Campus speakers and faculty with unapproved views are shouted down, shunned, and cancelled.
These speech codes have led to self-censorship by students and faculty of views privately held, but no longer shared. There is no commitment to free expression at Harvard other than for DEI-approved views. This has led to the quashing of conservative and other viewpoints from the Harvard campus and faculty, and contributed to Harvard’s having the lowest free speech ranking of 248 universities assessed by the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression.
When one examines DEI and its ideological heritage, it does not take long to understand that the movement is inherently inconsistent with basic American values. Our country since its founding has been about creating and building a democracy with equality of opportunity for all. Millions of people have left behind socialism and communism to come to America to start again, as they have seen the destruction leveled by an equality of outcome society.
The E for “equity” in DEI is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country.
You can say things about white people today in universities, in business or otherwise, that if you switched the word ‘white’ to ‘black,’ the consequences to you would be costly and severe.
To state what should otherwise be self-evident, whether or not a statement is racist should not depend upon whether the target of the racism is a group who currently represents a majority or minority of the country or those who have a lighter or darker skin color. Racism against whites is as reprehensible as it is against groups with darker skin colors.
https://surak.substack.com/p/bill-ackmans-enlightenment-on-dei
These things occur at the very most liberal places. An extremely small minority of people fall for this anymore. In Florida, high school and college kids are making fun of the woke bullshit and all it entails.
Before we had the DIE agenda … and the ‘diversity’ mantra … we had what 14th Amendment jurists called ‘disparate impact’ … which, as I recall, grew out of the push for what eventually came to be called ‘substantive due process’ under the 14th Amendment …
All of this goes a long way back … and has required a lot of twisting and fudging of the history and purpose of the 14th Amendment — which, as we have seen with cases like Obergefell v. Ohio, has basically thrown out the 10th Amendment.
disparate impact brought with it equality of outcome, dismissing anyone who had earned something in favor of someone who deserved to get it.
Jews are considered oppressors – rather than oppressed- under DEI?
News to me.
“I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more.”
How is this different than DEI? I think Bill is odd. I guess it depends on the goal/purpose/product of the organization. I DO NOT think building cars needs any of this bullshit. In fact, it shouldn’t think about it at all.
When it comes to employment, I believe the same as professional sports teams – Hire the person who is best suited to help the company meet its goals.
Diversity is anti-White. Everything else is window dressing.
It is always interesting to me when someone is pushing back on all the DIE and manages to use all of the language of the other side but never uses “White”. Let alone anti-White.
Everyone is on their own journey to understanding the truth, but until Whites can openly talk about themselves with regard to those truths, the other side will continue to claim the moral imperative.
Be explicit or go home. Waiting for some black guy or Asian girl to “notice” all the badness of DIE and speak for us in some oblique, adjacent nod toward the “good parts of diversity” is a losers game.
Google Bard: Sailer vs. Kendi
https://www.unz.com/isteve/google-bard-sailer-vs-kendi/
Some comments:
“Whites At The Top Aren’t Losing . . .
https://www.unz.com/isteve/google-bard-sailer-vs-kendi/#comment-6362986
https://www.unz.com/isteve/google-bard-sailer-vs-kendi/#comment-6363052
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Flour is white . . .
No Country for White Bakers: King Arthur Baking – A Company That Changed Its Name After George Floyd Revolution in 2020 – Hosts Baking Competition Barring White Bakers
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/no-country-for-white-bakers-king-arthur-baking-a-company-that-changed-its-name-after-george-floyd-revolution-in-2020-hosts-baking-competition-barring-white-bakers/
Flour company in whitest U.S. state hosts no-whites bake-off, to be more . . . inclusive. Got that, 6079 Smith W?
Because they can …
I remodeled a home for a woman who was a VP or high level executive at a firm that promoted diversity, inclusion all that malarkey. She was very wealthy all for telling corporations how to hire a diverse group of people. Unreal.
The comp for all of those positions is 2-3x to comparable makework globocorp jobs. It is all part of the ‘tribute’.
Did she look like this?….
Anywhere you shove your dick on her becomes a place to put it.
Hey, don’t talk that way about the Scrotumizers wife. He’s gonna unload on you now.
Idiot. I’d never marry anything I had to shoot twice to kill.
Roll it in flour.
Here’s Tucker Carlson talking about some of this in an article by Kevin MacDonald … too funny for words … these White liberal twits have too much money and too much time on their hands …
Read somewhere in the bright White corner of the internets, attribution unknown, “Never get so racist that you forget white leftists are the worst people in the world.”
Tribe up or die. Treat mud sharks harshly.
I remember when I was a kid that sometimes when there was a fight, the bigger kid would get the smaller one on the ground and take his hands by the wrist and hit him in the face with his own hands saying, why you hitting yourself? Or they make you say something like Uncle, or insult your own mother, things you neither believe nor would say of your own free will. Like Orwell’s 2+2=5. They don’t just want you to say it, they demand you believe it.
I’m guessing that this was somewhat universal in the world of children and we’ll see if anyone else commenting recalls it or something like it.
This is the same thing, only done by adults in positions of power to other adults who are further down the food chain.
It isn’t so much the physical harm as the humiliation ritual. Making you do something that is clearly at odds with your interests and proclaim that it’s your fault. When you’re kids the physical aspect plays into the bullying because it’s elemental and primal, your first inclination. Over time, it turns into social coercion where instead of using their greater size, they use the force of numbers and one’s social standing to inflict their humiliation and demonstrate their power. They are, of course, immunized and exempted against it. They don’t live in diverse neighborhoods and they don’t marry and have children outside of their ethnic and economic circles, but you are forced to live in the environment they created as a means of making you submit to them. Step out of line and they ratchet up the social opprobrium and make you the target of their torment.
Take away the physical aspect and they got nothing and are easily ignored.
Sam Colt made us ALL “equal”…in ability…not guts.
Never been the focus of the Two-Minute Hate, have you?
Pretty hard to ignore.
Are you fucking KIDDING me? I’m the focus of the two DECADE Hate.
Now ask me if a give a fuck.
LLPOH isn’t here to say it, so I will.
The Central Scrotumizer is the new Town Idiot.
You can suck my big fat dick. Whoever you are.
You’d like that, wouldn’t you, fagbot?
Government enforced “Diversity” = Totalitarianism. I don’t want to have to “Change the World” as Ten Years After sang:
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘Til there are no rich no more
UMich now has more than 500 jobs dedicated to DEI, payroll costs exceed $30 million
The University of Michigan continues to exponentially grow the number of staffers dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, with at least 241 paid employees now focused on DEI and payroll costs exceeding $30 million annually, according to an analysis conducted for The College Fix.
The payroll costs are $23.24 million for salaries and $7.44 million for benefits, or $30.68 million, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.
How much UofM DIEversity was on display last week at the national championship game?
“Today’s push for diversity” … you have got to be shitt’n me. This has been going on since the 80’s at least. Affirmative Action has progressed and been implemented for 50 YEARS.
This purpose simply took a couple generations for the marxist commie bitches to be thrust upon corporations in the HR departments and in the schools as ‘teachers’. Do you honestly think HR departments and feminism came about after women were put into the workforce by coincidence? First it went into the governments and administrations … then the universities … then the public schools … now, finally private corps.
Those that have just come to see it as DEI, are simply dense and are missing the big picture. Of course this is the same in nearly every aspect of our lives that the “alt” media now parrots and eventually someone has to point out that all foundations role back to around WW2.
See: Bezmenov
What a load of crap. You get what you tolerate. If you are unwilling to defend your commons by any means, Any Means, then you will have trannies and junkies in the streets, molesting your children and feeding them poison. Are you willing to TOLERATE THAT . Faggots are a blight on a Civilization and must be kept away from the children at all costs. And lest you mistake Phobia for Disgust consider the cockroach and the reaction to seeing one in your house. Not fear, disgust. And the appropriate actions must follow
Colt and Winchester made all people equal, not the government