Well said. Whenever I mention “diversity,” I always put it in quotation marks (sneer quotes) because what’s being peddled now isn’t true diversity. “Diversity” is a huge gloppy mix of white guilt, total control freak tendencies, and soft racism , wrapped in a thin phyllo dough of compassion and tolerance. And yes, the interests are not of different cultures and orientations: it’s a pure self-interest that says more about the person’s nosiness and meddling than it does the understanding of other cultures.

You said it tansaafl!

Whereas the right in this country is all about “live and let live.” The right is all about respecting privacy, allowing a free and open flow of information from the powers that be, respecting checks and balances, not trying to shove any sort of morality down peoples’ throats, fighting censorship and meticulously avoiding bending the facts in any way.

I recently read this great Heinlein quote that…you can forget about all those labels, left, right, conservative, liberal, on and on…the world breaks down into those who want to control every aspect of your life and those who don’t.

From this perspective, The Left is no different from Islamists, both religions very much all about control of “the other”.

Fair enough, there is some truth in that. But free, comfortable people got too complacent and made the fatal assumption that seemingly innocuous parts of their lives were beyond the pale of the culture wars. Sensing an unguarded front, the Left has proceeded to embark on a Long March through every other room in the house. From telling us what to eat and drive and how much toilet paper to use and how to flush, to where our kids go to school and whether or not they should have homework. Indeed, they now presume to tell us how big the house itself should be (well, except for their own elites of course). And for the past 40 years under the gentle well meaning title of “diversity” they have even tried to tell us who we can work and socialize with and live next to. Yes, Republican politicians have acquiesed in this process as well, but the Left is the intellectual breeding ground for most social engineering initiatives. Like their biggest social engineering failure of all, the Soviet Union, this is bound to run aground on the shoal of human nature. The sooner the better.

“The diversity ideologues …preferring to turn “diversity” into a political and legal hammer to compel compliance.”

“diversity” BS is kept alive and well every day from the university pulpit.

(In my own case, as a misanthrope who prefers to have as little as possible to do with the same as with the other, I’ve transcended all of this.)

:-)