However
great the shock of the massacre in Orlando, it is only a matter
of time
before we start hearing again the fact-free dogma that "diversity is
our strength."
If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words
repeated the most often, over the most years, without one speck of
evidence, "diversity" should be a prime candidate.
Today,
that sense of American unity is being undermined by the reckless
polarization of group identity politics. That affects not only how
Americans see themselves, but how others in our midst see America.
Is diversity our strength? Or anybody's strength, anywhere in the
world? Does Japan's homogeneous population cause the Japanese to
suffer? Have the Balkans been blessed by their heterogeneity — or does
the very word "Balkanization" remind us of centuries of strife,
bloodshed and unspeakable atrocities, extending into our own times?
Has Europe become a safer place after importing vast numbers of people
from the Middle East, with cultures hostile to the fundamental values
of Western civilization?
"When in Rome do as the Romans do" was once a common saying. Today,
after generations in the West have been indoctrinated with the rhetoric
of multiculturalism, the borders of Western nations on both sides of
the Atlantic have been thrown open to people who think it is their
prerogative to come as refugees and tell the Romans what to do — and to
assault those who don't knuckle under to foreign religious standards.
[...]
The recent wave of refugees flooding into Europe include Muslim men who
have been haranguing European women on the streets for not dressing
modestly enough, not to mention their sexual molestation of those women.
Smug elites in Europe, like their counterparts in America, are not
nearly as concerned about such things as they are about preventing
"Islamophobia." Legal restrictions on free speech in some European
countries make it a crime to sound the alarm about the dangers to the
culture and to the people.
In the lofty circles of those who see themselves as citizens of the
world, it is considered unworthy, if not hateful, to insist on living
according to your own Western values or to resist importing people who
increase your chances of being killed.
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