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October 19, 2016
Our Neutron Bomb Election
They live in a confined coastal cocoon.They went largely to the same schools, intermarried, traveled back and forth between big government, big banks, big military, big Wall Street, and big media — and sound quite clever without being especially bright, attuned to social justice but without character. Their religion is not so much progressivism, as appearing cool and hip and “right” on the issues. In this private world, off the record, Latinos are laughed off as “needy”; Catholics are derided as near medieval and in need of progressive tutoring on gay issues. Hillary is deemed a grifter — but only for greedily draining the cash pools of the elite speaker circuit to the detriment of her emulators. | Victor Davis Hanson
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"They went largely to the same..."
I remember being told that Affirmative Action wasn't going to be a quota system, but in reality it was to be a reach-out beyond the old boy networks of the time. School ties, mens' clubs, country clubs, and so forth provided a limited pool of talent since everyone knew each other and came from the same background, etc.
So, we should reach out beyond the walls of our gated mansions and find people of difference. Different races, different (or no) religion, different backgrounds, all sorts of differing experiences.
So we reached out to different races, backgrounds, religions, creeds, and so forth. But they all wound up going to the same "proper" schools, being taught by the same "proper" professors.
And we wound up with a group that looked different, had different backgrounds, religions, creeds, and so forth. But they all wound up thinking exactly the same.
So much for diversity.
Posted by: OldFert at October 19, 2016 4:59 PM
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Posted by: Nori at October 19, 2016 7:05 PM