In the wake of this week’s Supreme Court decision upholding Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in public school admissions, brace for more stories like this one in the Detroit News: After affirmative action ruling, colleges look at ways to increase diversity.

 
The Left is not letting this one go without a fight. Because – you know – it should no longer matter whether the kids are qualified, prepared, or capable of doing university-level work. “Diversity” is the highest good. And if that means eliminating any sort of merit-based selection process, oh well ~

In Ann Arbor today, activists planned to rally to press the University of Michigan to drop ACT and SAT test scores from its admissions process, because some say they are inherently biased against minority test-takers.

Clearly, our lives would be dull without this thing called diversity. Bio-diversity is critical to abundant life on Earth. I love the diverse choices in the local market’s produce department – and in our neighborhood ice cream shop. And I’m always inspired by a box of brightly colored pencils.
 
But as an artificially enforced social construct, diversity is a recipe for totalitarianism. Using race as the primary means of ranking people is inherently racist.
 

From a Christian perspective, it’s important to consider what God has to say on the subject ~

If diversity is such a good thing, we might expect to find much praise for it in the Bible. But the opposite seems to be the case. For example, the diversity of language visited on the people of Babel is presented in Genesis as a curse, not a blessing. More importantly, there is little if any support in the New Testament for the idea that the pursuit of diversity ought to be one of the main goals of life. On the other hand, there is much to suggest that unity is highly desirable. As Jesus, the good shepherd, tells his listeners, “And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd” (Jn 10: 16). That doesn’t sound like a call to diversity. Neither do the four passages in John 17 where Jesus prays to his Father “that they may all be one.” Viewed from a New Testament perspective, the world’s diversity of beliefs is something to be overcome, not celebrated.

Source: The Dictatorship of Diversity by William Kilpatrick (Crisis Magazine)

 
America’s founding principles have long appealed to a diverse group of immigrants. Vietnamese, Irish, Indians, Germans, Italians, Chinese; all left behind nations with limited freedom – or none at all – to come to the land of “e pluribus unum” (“one from many”). We are a nation which still purports to believe that all men are created equal. These immigrants didn’t arrive on our shores seeking diversity. They came for opportunity; equal opportunity for all.
 
 
Our founding principles used to guarantee that anyone willing to work hard and persevere could succeed. The immigrants who stood in line to come through our front door appreciated that – and they wanted to assimilate, regardless of their country of origin, not cling to their diversity.
 
Yet progressives insist we must embrace diversity for its own sake.
 
Not only is this totally illogical in light of human nature and history, our very instinct for self-preservation resists the concept.

Diversity can be a good thing—up to a point. The point you don’t want to go beyond, as Europeans are learning, is the point at which you have to sacrifice everything good in your own culture for the sake of maintaining the illusion that all cultures and beliefs are created equal.

Source: The Dictatorship of Diversity by William Kilpatrick (Crisis Magazine)

Sweden, having taken diversity to a whole new level, is perilously close to committing nationcide by playing Eloi to the Muslim Morlocks.

 
Meanwhile, the Leftists soldier on ~

“We have much work to do in this area and we are dedicated to moving forward,” U-M President Mary Sue Coleman and Provost Martha E. Pollack said in a joint statement Tuesday. “We will continue to pursue all legally compliant avenues to ensure that our campuses are diverse in all the many definitions of that term.”

The “many definitions?” No, there’s only one kind of “diversity” that progressives are obsessed with: race.
 
And yet, that’s not something God considers at all ~
 
 

[BTW – terms like “red” and “yellow” were never racist until progressive groupthink tried to convince us otherwise.]

 
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