23 Jan 2024 7:16 pm
GHETTO BLASTER: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e ... s_in_ChinaREAD AND WEEP MISTER "DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH"...
My response: "Never in my life, let alone in this forum, have I written, "Diversity is our strength," nor any other typically kowtowing liberal idiom, for I am not a liberal. To understand communism is to know that communists disdain liberalism. Nonetheless, I wonder what ethnic groups in China have to do with what I have written herein."
In reaction, GHETTO BLASTER reproduced my post of 17 Jan 2024, 5:52 am, which reads: "At least it isn't a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Jewish invective. Then again, the essence of Martin Heidegger may be afoot."
However, the terminal problem with GHETTO BLASTER'S "gotcha" is that the call for diversity or, more precisely, for the organizational framework known as "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is much different than anti-racism. The appeal for "inclusion" encompasses groups and structures irrespective of their dynamics, while anti-racism is merely the wish that human beings not be subjugated due to their pigmentation.
In the case of inclusion, you may, for example, call to "include more women in public office" without regard for their respective political tendencies. In other words, although Nikki Haley, Candice Owen, and Liz Cheney are certainly women, they are political reactionaries who, to me, need to be rejected on that basis rather than on their being women. Ergo, the call for blanket inclusion fails because it is not appropriately discriminatory. And that is why I have never used the term "inclusion" in the sociopolitical sense. Nevertheless, I still would like to know what China's many ethnic groups have to do with this.
Be well
Good evening
"Harvey Mushman"