The Left's Unhealthy Obsession with Diversity

It seems as if liberals have developed an unhealthy obsession with diversity.  If The Left was a male and Diversity was a female, Diversity would have filed a restraining order against The Left a long time ago.  Just look at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  He made sure that his cabinet consisted of an equal balance of men and women.  This comes off as a little extreme.  Shouldn’t it be the ultimate goal to fill the cabinet with the most qualified people, regardless of their gender?  Has the idea of meritocracy gone the way of the dinosaurs?       

 

The left has little respect for diversity of opinion.  In fact, they do everything they can to push for ideological uniformity.  Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk correctly pointed out that “College has become a place where they want everyone to look different, but think the same.”  Just ask Bret Weinstein, a self-described liberal biology professor at Evergreen State College; who has had to endure threats against his life for daring to question the validity of the school’s “Day of Absence”, where white students and faculty were asked to stay home from school while black students got to attend events on campus.  Weinstein received even more backlash when he dared to appear on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”  If the left continues its crusade against ideological diversity, it will continue to turn people off.       

 

Thanks to outcry from the PC police, Google now has one fewer software engineer.  James Damore recently lost his job because he published a 10-page “anti-diversity memo.” Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, said that portions of the memo violate the company’s Code of Conduct by “advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” This response should come as no surprise, since Google’s headquarters are located in the ultra-liberal Silicon Valley.  If Silicon Valley were its own state, it would have given President Obama nearly 74 percent of the vote in 2012.  The memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”, argues that women’s underrepresentation in the tech field results from the biological and psychological differences between men and women; not workplace discrimination.  For example, women tend to show a higher interest in people while men tend to show more of an interest in things.  The memo also criticizes Google’s “politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming its dissenters into silence” and argues that the company fails to recognize its own biases. Damore’s memo argues that people should be treated as individuals, rather than members of a group.  This mirrors Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous statement that people should be judged based on “the content of their character and not the color of their skin.”  Damore concludes his memo with a series of suggestions to help Google overcome its biases, including the de-emphasis of empathy and a reconsideration of making unconscious bias training mandatory for promo committees.

 

Not long after the memo first surfaced, Danielle Brown, Google’s newly minted Vice President of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance, issued a memo of her own.  The fact that this position even exists validates everything in Damore’s article.  Her memo reiterated the company’s belief that “Diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company.”   Perhaps she’ll invite in some therapy dogs to help people recover after reading that “offensive” content.      

 

The recent saga with Google isn’t the first time Silicon Valley’s anti-conservative bias has come to light.  Last year, Facebook found itself in hot water after a report alleged that some of the company’s employees worked to ensure that conservative news stories did not end up in the site’s list of trending stories.  In response to these allegations, the social media giant held an event where it reached out to prominent American conservatives in an effort to “repair its relationship with the right.”  Previously, Google has faced allegations that it buried negative search suggestions for Hillary Clinton.  A study conducted by Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology showed that Google’s Autocomplete feature would complete the phrase “Hillary Clinton is” with the words “winning” or “awesome”.  Google’s competitors Yahoo and Bing would finish the sentences with words such as “corrupt” and “evil.”  Google responded by saying it did not offer suggestions that portrayed people in a negative light, but the study proved that it was “easy to get autocomplete to suggest negative searches related to prominent people, one of whom happens to be Mrs. Clinton’s opponent.”                     

 

In my very first political science class, I learned about descriptive representation.  According to this idea, the demographics of Congress should mirror the demographics of the United States as a whole.  It would take a massive amount of social engineering to create a Congress that more closely mirrors America’s demographics.  Those arguing in favor of descriptive representation would say that Congress should have a much higher percentage of women and blacks and a much lower percentage of men and lawyers.  It never occurs to these people that most Americans vote for their elected representatives based on their policy positions, not their race, gender or occupation. 

 

Today, race and gender seem like the only topics many on the left care about.  The left’s obsession with diversity has gotten to a point where they actually look down on white people.  During last year’s Presidential Primaries, Harry Reid defended the Democrats’ controversial use of “superdelegates” by saying that Iowa and New Hampshire were “too white to decide the future of our country.”  Imagine the outrage if a Republican said California was “too Hispanic to decide the future of our country.”

 

If the left really loved diversity, it would certainly have shunned Harvard’s black-only graduation.  For the most part, they have had nothing but good things to say about the controversial event.  Ever since the left became obsessed with diversity, we have become more divided as a country; with people pledging more loyalty to their ethnic group than to their common identity as Americans.  The left decided it would be politically expedient for them to court minority groups by convincing them that whites were racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic diversity haters. This effort has largely succeeded, as most minority groups vote overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats; even as their economic conditions largely fail to improve under their leadership .  Despite their lackluster performances in the 2016 election, the Democrats and the left show no signs of abandoning their obsession with diversity in the near future.