If Diversity is the Answer, What's the Question? Part I

"If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. The very idea of testing this wonderful, magical word against something as ugly as reality seems almost sordid." Thomas Sowell

By Rich Kozlovich

One of the major problems with understanding what activists are up to is how they've high jacked language.  They take words that are easily understood, twist them and misapply them.   Words such as diversity.  For most Americans of my generation we understood that American diversity meant we had a large variety of people living in America from all over the world.  All contributing to the American culture, the American identity and the American economy.  All working to have the American dream and become a united people with the added benefits of what different cultures contributed.

That's not what leftists mean when they use the word diversity.  Their goal is to destroy any concept of an American culture, an American identity, the American economy, overturn the Constitution, and destroy any idea of American unity unless it's being unified under a socialist dictatorial regime.  Once that happens....Oh there will be unity all right, but as in all the failed leftist regimes of history that have infested the world, they will insist in unity of thought, and those thoughts will be disastrous.

That's history and that history is incontestable, and now government, society, corporations and trade associations are falling into their trap. Embracing unending failure is insanity!

I've been outraged ever since I received this e-mail from our my industry's national trade association saying:

We’ve all been struck silent for the past ten days struggling with the scenes playing out over television and computer screens everywhere. But, it’s clear that now is not the time for silence. It’s the time to find our voices and join them together to honor those who have been wronged and to forge a better, united future standing against racism and injustice.

To our Black members, the Black community, your families and those of you who have experienced inherent racism, NPMA stands with you. We recognize that your experiences are unique and we all have much to learn. Please know that we are committed to doing just that. We are here to listen, to learn, to improve and to contribute where it makes sense.

Given the critical need to focus on this important issue, we will be diligent in our commitment to shine a renewed spotlight on diversity, inclusion and equality during our upcoming meetings as part of every agenda. In addition, we are planning for a Diversity Forum at Pestworld, and we hope you will join us in the discussion there. Every voice must be heard.

We all need to be committed to learning more about how we can end racism.

What exactly does that mean? What exactly does all this entail?  Why exactly is this so critical, and if this is so critical, why didn't they notice it before insane misfits started destroying the nation?

And as for "every voice must be heard":  Really?  I guess we'll see about that!

As I read this I wondered who is the leftist ideologue who wrote this?   A writer who gives the impression they never read a history book, only watch TV news, and only read the New York Times and other corrupt rags of similar ilk.  

Also I wonder if they ever read a dictionary.  "Inherent" racism.  Really?  Did anyone look up the word inherent before sending out this piece of clabber, especially to an industry that has been the most exemplary and accepting industry in the world.  Our industry has accepted all people's regardless of race, gender or sexual preference, which I will be covering in this continuing series of articles dealing with the cancer of leftism and their definition of diversity and it's goals.  

Well, at 74, I'm soon to be gone, but in the meanwhile, I'm not going quietly into the night.  I love the strucurtral pest control industry, which has given me and a host of others wonderful opportunities to start and grow their own businesses.  And to more people from more varied walks of life than any other I know of.  I will not allow anyone, including bureaucrats, activists, or fellow travelers within the industry to degrade who and what my industry is, and what we've been.

It would appear the our national representative have decided to descend into the labyrinth world of leftist social engineering, and I don't like it.  So, I will be publishing a series of articles dealing with this issue, and I've stored source articles for my commentaries on this issue, and here they are:

• The 'Diversity' Fraud 
• Diversity and Inclusion Insanity
• Cult Programming in Seattle 
• The American Soviet Mentality - Collective demonization invades our culture 
• How a Twitter Mob Derailed an Immigrant Female Author’s Budding Career
• What ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Has Wrought 
• The Problem with Abstract Concepts
• Jews fight back against de Blasio's continued persecution 
• Whom are you going to call?
• The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation
• Anti-police madness metastasizes as SF mayor plans to send in social workers in their place
•  Seattle’s cowardly capitulation contrasts with 4 other cities putting down attempts to establish ’autonomous zones’
•  Business departs the inner cities
• Serial kneeling of America 
• The plight of blacks who believe in America’s promise - 
• We Didn’t Fight for a Marxist America  
• There was a dumpster fire in the autonomous zone so citizens of the CHAZ called the Seattle fire department What a perfect metaphor
• CHAZ offers useful insights into the practical realities of revolutionary communes - 
• Nashville autonomous zone 'will not be tolerated,' Tennessee governor warns amid threat
• Entire Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief kneels with protesters 
• Scott Adams has had a brilliant insight about the demand for reparations 
• The futility of reparations
• It's not just policing that Black Lives Matter wants to change
• The irony of kneeling during the National Anthem
• Defund the police: Wrong target, right idea
• Three Species of Protesters
• Devolution to Revolution: An Already Demoralized U.S. is Now Being Destabilized
• The Problem with George Will
• America’s New Caste System?
• Where Black Lives Don't Matter
• Race Isn’t Going Away 
• What If Police Officers Go on Strike?
• Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?
• The Wound to Our Social Order Is Deep and Pervasive
• Democrat Cities: Fourth-World Scourges
• White America's Alleged Inner Racist
• Glenn Loury: 'We're Being Swept Along by Hysteria' About Racism in America
• TheMob’s Support For Rayshard Brooks Exposes Them For The Race-Baiting Hypocrites They Are

Okay, so you're all in for diversity, right?  Tell me, when was the last time you had dinner with a street bum at your home.  How many?  And how often?