I have to take a "Diversity" class in college.

[admin]

Everyone has to take at least one so I am taking "Politics of Diversity". It's more like a Sociology course than a Political Science course. The teacher is black but he speaks the way blacks used to speak before Martin Luther King started with the accent (Chaim did a quote of the way my teacher speaks on one QPTV shows once.). I think it's still available on YouTube. The teacher said that his wife is white and that they have been the victims of hate crimes because of that. He said there is no Scientific basis for the concept of "race". He must mean biologically but the external physical concept does exist. Chaim has says that there is no biological reason for races acting a certain way but rather it is cultural. The teacher said people look difference based on race because of where they come from. So I asked him what he would call it if not race so he said we'll discuss that on Friday. So I wrote a post asking Chaim how he would answer the claim of the teacher in The Future Ask JTF Section for a few weeks from now. The teacher also passed out something from the website of "The Southern Poverty Law Center" which listed the number of hate groups by state so I went to the website and looked for New York to see if they listed JTF but they only listed "JDL" (In Brooklyn and Rochester.), as if it still existed. At least they also list black groups such as The Nation of Islam. I'm not sure ADL would list black groups.

The reason I picked this specific Diversity class is because it's not just about one group. I'm a History major so if I was going to take one in my own department, it would have to be "Black History" because they don't offer "White History". So the class I'm taking goes through all the ethnic groups and at the end of the semester, it even includes White Ethnic Groups. But it lists whites last and I think it lists blacks second after American Indians. Note that I'm not using the terms the book used. The book uses "American" after every group name except White Ethnic Groups. Within the the chapter on whites, they mention "Jewish Americans" which is very offensive to Jews because it is Anti-Jewish to use "politically correct" terms for Jews. Jews are American Jews because we are Jews first and foremost. Just because blacks added American, the "politically correct" morons want to use it for every group name. "Political correctness" and Judaism are antitheses of each other.

[EagleEye]

A homogeneous state is is easier to manage than a diverse one.

Diversity is a weakness.  Such classes, that will never succeed, would not even be necessary without it.  Diversity leads to suffering and tension.  Without diversity, "racism" could not exist.

[mosquewatch]

Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim ,

Never back down from what you believe in. Where I am employed, they have classes that teach english speaking employees Spanish. So "we" may fit in. No class teaches english.

I openly tell people "Speak english around me."  Walmart hates me.

[newman]

Prospective students should ask colleges whether this nonsense is mandatory before enrolling and shelling out their money. If students stop enrolling at colleges that force this BS down the students' throats, they'll soon stop.

[Ari]

Hopefully the class will work out, Yacov, but I have my doubts.  Quite frankly I'm sorry you have to sit through it for the semester.  Take care.

[TheCoon]

Yacov, look at it as a good laugh. Give the professors what they wanna hear and more. In fact, pretend you're a huge leftist liberal. Be as pro-black as possible in your writings. Get your good grades and laugh at them.

[Daniel]

Let's hope it turns out to be a positive experience and perhaps it will be a real eyeopening experience. I just hope it doesn't turn out like a multicultural class that a friend of mine took several years ago where she told me that the teacher introduced the class with the topic, "Zionism is racism." I was completely shocked since that was the first time I ever heard that such a perspective even existed and even more dumbfounded that this was supposedly a course that was supposed to teach tolerance and open-mindedness. I just hope your class doesn't turn into anything like this. So let's just cross our fingers and see.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Affirmative Action Science 120 (AFSC120): The Biological Composition Of Elephant Dung

[newman]

Why not force sociology students to take classes on economic rationalism and the virtues of low tax and user pay?

[JewishTeddyBear]

I find it ironic that it is the liberals who are always emphasizing things like race and gender.  They are turning upside down Dr King's dream of judging people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.  Then again, maybe I should not be surprised at all.  After all, it was the Democrats who were the pro-slavery party, while the Republicans were the anti-slavery party.

And then there is the other irony, that of censorship.  Liberals preach tolerance, yet what they really mean is free speech for other liberals, and censorship for conservatives.  Just to give one example of this, they completely dominate the media, except when it comes to talk radio; this bothers them so much, that they are trying to essentially ban conservative thought from talk radio by re-introducing the deceptively named Fairness Doctrine.

These are just two of the reasons why I long ago became a Republican, and have never regretted it ever since

[newman]

Excellent post, JTB.

Ironic how the liberals are always accusing conservatives of racism and facsism when THEY are the biggest racists and facsists of the post-war era.

[JewishTeddyBear]

Newman, thank you.

I think part of the difficulty here is how words are used.  Because they call themselves liberal, and say such pleasant sounding words, it is all too easy to let one's guard down, and trust that they have our best interests in their hearts.  Yet the exact opposite is the case: liberalism is really a code word for totalitarianism.  I have unfortunately had too many experiences of this extreme liberal intolerance and thirst for absolute power, especially at work.  I have been harassed and fired from jobs for being a pro-Israel, traditional Jewish Republican.

At least Republicans pull no punches.  They tell us we need to work hard and long to succeed, that we have moral responsibilities (as opposed to just rights), that morality matters, that we have to take charge of our own lives, and so on.  Tough words to hear, but one cannot deal with truth before one even knows what the truth is.

[newman]

Consider this:

It is the liberal who demands special laws based on colour or ethnicity.

The conservative mantra has CONSTANTLY been "ONE LAW FOR ALL".

But who gets called racist here?

I've noticed that the liberals have adopted the totalitarian thug tactics of the medievel church, too. They just say 'racist', 'homophobe' or 'nazi' instead of 'heretic'.

[EagleEye]

They are turning upside down Dr King's dream of judging people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.

That's an excellent point.  The left itself has pushed diversity very hard.  If they really didn't care about race, they'd simply ignore it.

[newman]

Why teach those with good cultures ( like Jews and white christians) about inferior tud world cultures?

Why not make the schvartzas and turd worlders learn about white American and Jewish culture? Maybe they'll learn to be human beings.

[Mstislav]

Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim ,

Never back down from what you believe in. Where I am employed, they have classes that teach english speaking employees Spanish. So "we" may fit in. No class teaches english.

I openly tell people "Speak english around me."  Walmart hates me.

So that is what they call 'diversity in the workplace'? And here I thought that America is an English-speaking country and where it is an immigrant's obligation to learn the language instead of Anglophones having to learn other languages just because immigrants do not want to fulfil their obligation. Learning other languages is a good thing, but for the purpose you mentioned above is not.

[Mishmaat]

It's actually an advantage to speak Spanish in retail. Sad, but true.

And soon, God forbid, it will be a requirement.

[MarZutra]

Firstly Yacov, your professor is an ignoramus and probably a left over Marxist.  I advise you to have fun with the course and ask many factually based questions that negates any and all of his positions if answered.  If he gives a glowing performance for Martin Luther King.  Ask him if he was an active member in the Communist Party and was financed by the ACLU?  Ask him if he knows about the British Fabian Society?  Ask him if he knows that he didn’t earn his “Rev.” or his “PhD.”, and in fact plagiarized many of his works.  They only gave him the designation because he was BLACK. 

There most certainly is a concept of race.  Where is this man’s head buried?  If he wants examples from the Conservative/Right suggest he read J. Phillip Rushton’s “Race Evolution and Behavior” or “The Naked Ape” – Desmond Morris from the Socialist Left.   Chaim may well be right but he may well be wrong as the thesis dealt with is racial differences within Rushton’s book and even Wikipedia affords him recognition for pointing out this.  One of his basic facts which separates Blacks from all other is their over exemplified low IQ’s which have not afforded them the will to change nor become creative.  The results is that this low IQ produced the basic hunter-gatherer primate and very animalistic “culture” that has not changed or “evolved” even very little since Cecil Rhodes expeditions into the Dark Continent.  There seems to be something to this as Blacks act like Blacks wherever they are be it LA or Freetown.  So there is more to it other than “cultural”.  Even the injections of Christianity and Judaism into Africa resulted into a primate contortion of any real progress when compared to barbarian Europe.  Australia and Israel produced first rate nations within 100 years while Africa, with all of its natural resources and the billions dumped in yearly still couldn’t produce fire if it wasn’t introduced.  No written language and still eating each other.  There is more to it than simply cultural.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, if I’m not mistaken is funded by the ACLU and is another Communist/Socialist front group.  Anything that isn’t “Politically Correct” is a “hate” group.  Give it time, I’m sure JTF will be listed.

You should ask your professor why doesn’t this school “embrace diversity” while only offering Black History and not White History, isn’t that “racist”? 

Take everything with a grain of salt brother.  Seems like you’ve willfully subjected yourself to a Stalinist Social Engineering course.
 

[Ehud]

MarZutra, that was an excellent post.  I agree with 100% of what you've said.

[MarZutra]

Yacov, for a joke, go to your library and sign out the book by J.Phillip Rushton. It is about 275 pages and is fairly easy to read.  What it does display is the results, using the same liberal testing practices that leftists use to advocate "diversity" but takes those results and combines them with the factual reality on the ground to show how and why Blacks, be it in Africa, England or Detroit, live and act in virtually identical fashions.  The book is full of facts.  Somethings I still question but some seem to be very logical.  Here is a good example of who this fellow is and if one looks at his critics, they are all Communist/Socialist and your Southern Poverty Law Center...lol

http://www.answers.com/topic/j-philippe-rushton

The funny thing is that the basics between the socialist left in Desmond's book and Rushton's book are nearly identicle but from two different perspectives but the condemnation solely comes on Rushton as a "racist" because he is a Conservative.... 

[Daniel]

Affirmative Action Science 120 (AFSC120): The Biological Composition Of Elephant Dung

Language Language!

[Daniel]

Yacov, for a joke, go to your library and sign out the book by J.Phillip Rushton. It is about 275 pages and is fairly easy to read.  What it does display is the results, using the same liberal testing practices that leftists use to advocate "diversity" but takes those results and combines them with the factual reality on the ground to show how and why Blacks, be it in Africa, England or Detroit, live and act in virtually identical fashions.  The book is full of facts.  Somethings I still question but some seem to be very logical.  Here is a good example of who this fellow is and if one looks at his critics, they are all Communist/Socialist and your Southern Poverty Law Center...lol

http://www.answers.com/topic/j-philippe-rushton

The funny thing is that the basics between the socialist left in Desmond's book and Rushton's book are nearly identicle but from two different perspectives but the condemnation solely comes on Rushton as a "racist" because he is a Conservative.... 

This guy is neither liberal nor conservative. He's just an academic nimrod!

[Daniel]

Newman, thank you.

I think part of the difficulty here is how words are used.  Because they call themselves liberal, and say such pleasant sounding words, it is all too easy to let one's guard down, and trust that they have our best interests in their hearts.  Yet the exact opposite is the case: liberalism is really a code word for totalitarianism.  I have unfortunately had too many experiences of this extreme liberal intolerance and thirst for absolute power, especially at work.  I have been harassed and fired from jobs for being a pro-Israel, traditional Jewish Republican.

At least Republicans pull no punches.  They tell us we need to work hard and long to succeed, that we have moral responsibilities (as opposed to just rights), that morality matters, that we have to take charge of our own lives, and so on.  Tough words to hear, but one cannot deal with truth before one even knows what the truth is.

I don't know where you guys get off thinking that this has anything to do with liberalism. What you are describing is just downright bigotry which can no more fairly be attributed to liberalism than it can to conservatism. When it comes to the issue of "totalitarianism", it is the conservatives that are in favor of more governmental control of social issues while the liberals think that government should stay out of the private lives of others.

[fjack]

Let's get a fact or two straight for this affrimative action half white hater (he done be liken' thezs white wimezs) professor. There is no such thing as 'black history'. It is made up history, an exercise in 'feel good mentality'. This is an escape from a reality that wants to make excuses for the inablilty of jamal and latrine to read, write and do calculations. The current thought in the worthless field of education is to 'instill the child with self worth and with pride in his phoney baloney history and they will magically learn to read and wrtie and will fit into society'. We all know that this is hogwash. Ask that black professor what his major was and he will say either, sociology, education, african studies, psychology or some other throwaway ology that was invented just to have blacks recieve a college degree. As far as michael king goes, that is his real his name, he was a white hater, anti semite, a drunk, a plagarist, a liar and was an anti american traitor who embraced communism with open arms when they weren't around some prostitutes paid for by donations from white fools.

[Daniel]

Let's get a fact or two straight for this affrimative action half white hater (he done be liken' thezs white wimezs) professor. There is no such thing as 'black history'. It is made up history, an exercise in 'feel good mentality'. This is an escape from a reality that wants to make excuses for the inablilty of jamal and latrine to read, write and do calculations. The current thought in the worthless field of education is to 'instill the child with self worth and with pride in his phoney baloney history and they will magically learn to read and wrtie and will fit into society'. We all know that this is hogwash. Ask that black professor what his major was and he will say either, sociology, education, african studies, psychology or some other throwaway ology that was invented just to have blacks recieve a college degree. As far as michael king goes, that is his real his name, he was a white hater, anti semite, a drunk, a plagarist, a liar and was an anti american traitor who embraced communism with open arms when they weren't around some prostitutes paid for by donations from white fools.

To state that "there is no such thing as 'black history' " would be inaccurate. Blacks definitely have a history. To object to the "content" of what is taught in black history is another matter in itself. That would be a more valid objection.