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Searching for Diversity

I should probably be posting about my disagreement with a recent article by Bill Kristol in The Weekly Standard but I'm in no mood right now for that. Instead, my funny bone was tickled a little while ago while browsingthe traffic stats for my blog on Site Meter. A lot of traffic hitting my blog over the past month is coming from folks searching on "define and characterize minority groups."

I had to chuckle and shake my head in disbelief. As those of you who stop by regularly know, I'm no fan of Diversity class. I'm simply trying to finish my BS in Computer Science online and certainly don't need any indoctrination into oxymoronic Lib-speak. I get enough of that out on the street during Protest Warrior missions! The posts I've done related to those types of topics are not exactly what the instructors at University of Phoenix or Western International University will be hoping to see in an essay.

Interestingly enough, I've been contacted via email a few times for tips on the meaning of "affective prejudice." I had to wish those folks well in their understanding of it because mine was pretty simple: someone of a certain race/ethnicity does something bad; you begin to dislike that race/ethnicity for the actions of others. Most intelligent human beings know better than to blame a whole race for the actions of just a few individuals. Maybe Bubba and Skeeter need to be taken to task occasionally by Robert "KKK" Byrd but, for the most part, the rest of us are a tad smarter than that.

In the Diversity textbook, we are taught to label and group people by exactly the characteristics that we are told promote prejudice! This class is nothing short of liberal "logic" that has no use in today's society. So to all the folks doing their college work online, please know that I wish you all the best in your studies. If you're Conservative like me, you're probably pounding the Pepto Bismol with every essay you have to write. Hang in there... I've only got two more weeks of this nonsense to go; if I can do it, you can too!

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