Thread: A Diverse Opinion About Diversity

A Diverse Opinion About Diversity
By Burt Prelutsky
Monday, January 21, 2008
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Recently, I heard from a guy who claimed that squirrel tasted just like chicken. Some days, I swear, I get the idea that everything’s supposed to taste like chicken. But it brought home the fact that what we eat, as well as what we think, is often more a matter of geography than of anything else. Frankly, I wouldn’t care if it tasted like chocolate ice cream, I’ve never had squirrel on my plate and I aim to keep it that way. As with frogs and snakes, there are some things I regard as food and some things I’d prefer not to think about at all. And that’s how I want to keep it.

So it will probably come as no surprise that I am not a champion of diversity even though I am aware that the word, itself, has taken on sacred qualities in certain quarters, along with such words as liberal, progressive and Hillary. Leftists mainly enjoy using the word as a club with which to bash conservatives over the head. Suggest that you believe that America’s traditional values and culture trump those of other countries, and you can expect to get whacked.

For a couple of hundred years, foreigners have been flocking to the shores of this most welcoming of nations. They would bring along their art and music along with their cuisine, but they adapted their ways in order that their children and their children’s children would acclimate and be full-fledged Americans. There was a reason, after all, that America was nicknamed the Great Melting Pot.

But somewhere along the way, there was a sea change. Now we have that oddest of strange creatures known as the dual citizen and we have millions of people living here who apparently have no particular loyalty to this country and are being encouraged to retain their own language and their old ways. “Press one for Spanish, two for Englishâ€

Yes yes yes yes. What a great article. We are still Americans. And we don't need to be diversified out of existence.

Well thank you for this I am going to a required Diversity class and I will print this off and read out loud in class .. I just need to let them know I will not be conforming to their ideas any longer ..

Originally Posted by fmrjarhead

Well thank you for this I am going to a required Diversity class and I will print this off and read out loud in class .. I just need to let them know I will not be conforming to their ideas any longer ..

Good for you!

Let us know how this goes.

I wish Burt were running for President of the United States.

Liberals are masochistic misanthropes, specificially misoprogonosts.

I have a kindred. I couldn't have said it any better myself. Thanks Burt!

Originally Posted by zeezil

I accept that our ways wouldn’t suit everyone in the world. In some places, after all, cock fights and bull fights are the norm, just as the execution of homosexuals in Iran and the eating of dogs in parts of Southeast Asia are apparently part of their disgusting cultures. So while I may not approve of these loathsome activities, I figure they can do what they like, so long as they stay where they are. In fact, staying where they are strikes me as being one hell of an idea.

Talk about hitting the nail on the head! That's exactly right, stay where the hell they are!!