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Diversity Of Thought

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It’s the most important diversity, but the one that the Left absolutely will not tolerate.

One could easily dismiss these students as part of that long and glorious American tradition of smart young people saying stupid things. As Oscar Wilde remarked, “In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”

But we all know that this nonsense didn’t spring ex nihilo from their imaginations. As Allan Bloom showed a quarter century ago in The Closing of the American Mind, these ideas are taught.

Indeed, we are now up to our knees in this Orwellian bilge. Diversity means conformity.

And ignorance is strength.

4 thoughts on “Diversity Of Thought”

  1. It’s ironic that, not long before I was born things were very different. Back then, in the 60’s and early 70’s, the youth movement was against conformity and against their teachers. Now, they’re content to be led like mindless sheep, conformist in every way.

    Even in the 80’s and 90’s, when I was in school, you saw some rebellion against conformity and the university teachers.

    Today, do they have, even to themselves, even the pretense of being “different”, or is it fashionable to be sheep now?

    When one is told what to think, and does so, there’s no actual thought involved. It’s the literal definition of mindless.

    1. In the 1965-75 period I saw informal enforcement of “radical” norms, often through sex, or rather lack of it, for those insufficiently “insurgent”. After 1975, it became increasingly formal, as “insurgents” gained tenured positions in social science, humanities, etc. By 1990 the overwhelming level of radical political activity had made it inevitable that the statements from students displayed in the article were quite unexceptional, ….they just are not published.

  2. My first two years of college (1972-1974) were right after the pivotal Kent State event, and by that time the leftist “dissenters” with whom I was acquainted (and with whom I sympathized on many issues) themselves knew that the freedom to “do your own thing” was good only as long as “your own thing” was what they agreed with.

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