tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2259894956776608158..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Diversity and "ambient cultural disharmony"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42449670323653451912014-01-26T19:11:28.354-08:002014-01-26T19:11:28.354-08:00And here all along I've been thinking that div...And here all along I've been thinking that diversity is what allowed the US to import people from every country on the planet and if that country didn't exactly play our game, why, we wipped-up a group of pro-freedom-and-democracy freedom fighters from that country's immigrants to overthrow the evil tyranical dictatorship that was ruining their country and killing their own people...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7799283424679024312014-01-26T13:51:41.518-08:002014-01-26T13:51:41.518-08:00"Why after centuries of interaction are there..."Why after centuries of interaction are there still Lebanese, Anglo's, Negros, Jews, Hindu, French, and on and on? Shouldn't we all be one Unitarian-Universalist cappuchino-shaded race by now?"<br /><br />I worked at the UUA many years ago at their headquarters in Boston. It was the most <i>un-diverse</i> place I've ever worked. Filled with the whitest of white people. Truly a whiter shade of pale. As lefty-liberal as you can get.<br />Lovernioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575619175879044958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73199855783810156582014-01-25T18:41:00.813-08:002014-01-25T18:41:00.813-08:00"herp derp, jody said every team in every spo..."herp derp, jody said every team in every sport is constructed randomly. no. no i didn't. you don't know much about sports though if you think every team in every sport is carefully put together every year."<br /><br />Da Phuck you talkin about? The Mariners, nor any pro sports team is randomly put together. Scouting, statistical analysis, drafts, free agent markets, player development, minor leagues, coaches, and on and on.....<br /><br />The Mariners won 61 games 5 years ago, BTW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69386572473039557982014-01-25T17:00:48.799-08:002014-01-25T17:00:48.799-08:00"the Mariners are shitty because other than K..."the Mariners are shitty because other than King Felix the rotation blows and they have a below avg lineup."<br /><br />i said a couple years ago. not last year. i don't know what's going on at all times with the mariners or most other teams. i hate baseball.<br /><br />"And managers, or general managers, do not throw together a bunch of random players."<br /><br />the hell they don't. not only do they do this in every sport, they do this more in baseball than in any other team sport.<br /><br />herp derp, jody said every team in every sport is constructed randomly. no. no i didn't. you don't know much about sports though if you think every team in every sport is carefully put together every year.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57066789005426579982014-01-25T17:00:27.949-08:002014-01-25T17:00:27.949-08:00Or to paraphrase John Derbyshire, foreigners are l...<i>Or to paraphrase John Derbyshire, foreigners are like salt or spices in a soup or stew. A little bit of seasoning adds flavor. Dump an entire box in, and the soup is ruined.</i><br /><br />Or worse, the point is reached where you have a bowl of salt with some soup ingredients in it. Its really just adulterated salt - not soup.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80970893931294766762014-01-25T16:00:34.509-08:002014-01-25T16:00:34.509-08:00Diversity means - I had some black friends in coll...Diversity means - I had some black friends in college. And some black coworkers. We were all cool. Life should be nice like that all the time.<br /><br />Quit and eat dinner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23512818786235866402014-01-25T15:53:36.077-08:002014-01-25T15:53:36.077-08:00"Corporations don't really believe the &q..."Corporations don't really believe the "Diversity" BS. They are driven to profess belief in the interest of lawsuit avoidance."<br /><br />I can assure you that the vast majority of executives at large corporations are true believers in diversity. <br /><br />If they were not, they would act very differently in terms of who they donate money to and what politicians they support. <br /><br />This nonsense that they are good guys who are being pressured into acting bad wasn't even true 30 years ago, let alone now. <br /><br />Corporate execs' favorite politician was Jack Kemp, the pro-affirmative action, pro-open borders, not very bright ex-football player who was constantly worshiping at the altar of political correctness and diversity. <br />ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39324273082156090152014-01-25T13:15:30.746-08:002014-01-25T13:15:30.746-08:00"Anonymous said...
who cares if diversity go..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />who cares if diversity good or bad for "the economy"?"<br /><br />The Economy does not exist to serve you. You exist to serve The Econonmy, blessed be it's name.<br /><br />Just try not to remember that "The Economy" really means "The financial interests of the wealthy".<br /><br />Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9280662254584677742014-01-25T13:03:32.009-08:002014-01-25T13:03:32.009-08:00In 1982 I sat in on the first-ever California &quo...In 1982 I sat in on the first-ever California "wrongful discharge" trial. The plaintiff was a IBM typewriter saleswoman who'd been involved with a counterpart from a rival company. The trial was all about how corporate secrets would probably be revealed in bed. To impress the jury with the seriousness of the risk, IBM put on a linebacker-sized black executive who was bursting out of his suit. They lost the case. On appeal, it came out that she'd been earning nearly 80k/yr.in '79-80.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38839130351186163112014-01-25T12:47:54.946-08:002014-01-25T12:47:54.946-08:00n Jean Renoir's film "The Grand Illusion,...n Jean Renoir's film "The Grand Illusion," Jean Gabin plays a French POW in WW2. The thing that practically breaks him is not physical deprivation, but the lack of people around him who speak French."<br /><br />There it is, really. "Immigrants" swarm here speaking every language under the sun, and are angry and isolated because they're not in their own "Kansas" any more. And we (the white people; blacks and hispanics don't have to worry) are supposed to care. Care enough to snuff out ourselves in the impossible pursuit of a country that will immediately make everyone from a foregin country feel like they never left home.<br />Again, we'd be better off paying them to stay home since we're never going to build that fence.annapolanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57338759871049702462014-01-25T11:39:10.433-08:002014-01-25T11:39:10.433-08:00There is no there there when it comes to Diversity...<i>There is no there there when it comes to Diversity.</i><br /><br />Stop your whining. They were doing you a favor, giving you a subject that is inherently concise: the benefits of Diversity. Be grateful they didn't assign you the costs of Diversity; you'd still be writing.<br /><br /><i>much more a Liberal who judges everyone by universal standards</i><br /><br />They must still have real liberals in the UK. Here, our "liberals" know damned well not to judge anyone else by the standards they use on their fellow white "gentiles."<br /><br /><i>More diversity means less White. Period.</i><br /><br />Yes, exhibit A would seem to be, per Bob's Mantra, that non-"white 'gentile'" countries are already at maximum "Diversity" and thus, having reached "Mission Accomplished!" status without doing <i>anything</i>, are never off-limits to the Diversicrats. All-black countries, all-yellow countries, all-brown countries, all-sepia countries, the Jewish State, etc., would seem to qualify as 100% "Diverse" and thus have no obligation to "Diversify."<br /><br /><i>LOL on that one. Yeah, anyone with any real experience is "closed-minded."</i><br /><br />Indeed. I spent years with an open mind. That's how I got to my current state of close-mindedness; I learned enough to make up my mind. The standing demand for a constant state of open-mindedness smacks of a hypnotist working a crowd. Or an overseer working slaves.<br /><br /><i>Off Topic:<br /><br />Washington State has decided that White women are no longer eligible for affirmative action preferences:</i><br /><br />Obviously they never consulted Obsidian; if they had, they'd know that cutting out the primary beneficiaries of AA - the only ones who matter, the ones for whom the whole system was instituted - is simply not possible.<br /><br />Diversity is like neither alcohol, or hot sauce. It's like O'Doul's; each one you drink is one less real beer you can drink. Each phony bit of Diversity you include is one less bit of real diversity you can include. Each cookie-cutter leftist Diversitoid is one fewer diverse thinker or doer.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86590774372408570752014-01-25T10:35:02.298-08:002014-01-25T10:35:02.298-08:00THE closest thing the business world has to a univ...<i>THE closest thing the business world has to a universally acknowledged truth is that diversity is a good thing</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=all+creatures+will+make+merry+under+pain+of+death" rel="nofollow">All creatures will make merry...under pain of death</a>Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29677366559802161502014-01-25T09:21:45.032-08:002014-01-25T09:21:45.032-08:00So uh, anyone going to get around to writing about...So uh, anyone going to get around to writing about the upsides of diversity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39717893149713354102014-01-25T05:58:55.258-08:002014-01-25T05:58:55.258-08:00The great, unanswered question I keep repeating to...The great, unanswered question I keep repeating to the multi-cultists is, where do you think 'diversity' comes from?<br /><br />Why after centuries of interaction are there still Lebanese, Anglo's, Negros, Jews, Hindu, French, and on and on? Shouldn't we all be one Unitarian-Universalist cappuchino-shaded race by now?The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20050944488550360812014-01-25T05:34:57.021-08:002014-01-25T05:34:57.021-08:00Funny, I always think of Lebanese as being extraor...Funny, I always think of Lebanese as being extraordinarily polite, based on a sample of, oh, three or four Lebanese Americans I have known. We may both be misled by small samples.<br /><br />Or something like the following may be true: Whatever is the dominant trait in any ethnic group will also provoke a reaction into the opposite trait by a significant portion of the same ethnic group. Examples might be Jewish liberals who obsess about the immorality of excessive money-making or puritanical Irish Catholics who obsess about the sexual slovenliness of fellow Irish Catholics.<br /><br />O. Henry made a living off spotting these intra-ethnic contradictions after he moved to New York City. Of course, he was living in a target-rich environment.<br /><br />Henry Canadaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91366905470974350582014-01-25T00:20:17.800-08:002014-01-25T00:20:17.800-08:00"Socially Extinct said...
@ Foreign Expert
h... "Socially Extinct said...<br />@ Foreign Expert<br /><br />haha, I disagree, Diversity is more like hot sauce. In measured, reasonable doses, it adds body. Beyond that, it dulls the experience."<br /><br />That's a good analogy. <br />The American concept of Diversity seems to be "different races, who of course are or should all be White Liberals under the skin". This is 'empty Diversity' in that it's meaningless by definition - the Diversity cannot actually matter, because people are all the same really.<br /><br />I know I have benefitted from seeing different perspectives other than the two I grew up with (Ulster Unionism + BBC Left-Liberalism). But the ones that are most beneficial are those different enough to be enlightening, but close enough to be comprehensible. Traditionalist Catholic perspectives, for instance, from within the Anglosphere or northwestern Europe. Other European perspectives. I can't get much from more alien perspectives other than to acknowledge that beyond some basic commonalitis they are too different to really understand, and their holders are likely to react to stimulus in unexpected ways.Simon in Londonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35613405417298453602014-01-24T23:31:02.552-08:002014-01-24T23:31:02.552-08:00i'm allowed to want what i want, and im allowe...<i>i'm allowed to want what i want, and im allowed to demand the government give me policies that i want, just because i want them</i><br /><br />You're not allowed to demand what you want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50791594579194137612014-01-24T23:15:05.938-08:002014-01-24T23:15:05.938-08:00Foreign Expert said...
I tend to think diversity i...Foreign Expert said...<br />I tend to think diversity is like alcohol. A little makes life more interesting and probably is good for you. Too much and you die.<br /><br />1/24/14, 9:44 PM<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Or to paraphrase John Derbyshire, foreigners are like salt or spices in a soup or stew. A little bit of seasoning adds flavor. Dump an entire box in, and the soup is ruined.Oswald Spenglernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67662913643968629502014-01-24T22:40:24.748-08:002014-01-24T22:40:24.748-08:00WW1
I know, apologies for the typo. I like the da...WW1<br /><br />I know, apologies for the typo. I like the dark irony at the end when they mention thst they must work to make this war the last one of all...and the film was released in 1937....Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1733480208413338992014-01-24T22:30:27.416-08:002014-01-24T22:30:27.416-08:00In Jean Renoir's film "The Grand Illusion...<i>In Jean Renoir's film "The Grand Illusion," Jean Gabin plays a French POW in WW2.</i><br />Indeed an excellent film, but it's about World War I.CJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89441638439049699902014-01-24T22:28:25.297-08:002014-01-24T22:28:25.297-08:00@ Foreign Expert
haha, I disagree, Diversity is ...@ Foreign Expert<br /><br />haha, I disagree, Diversity is more like hot sauce. In measured, reasonable doses, it adds body. Beyond that, it dulls the experience.Socially Extincthttp://www.phoenixism.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14574229710011990332014-01-24T21:48:46.130-08:002014-01-24T21:48:46.130-08:00who cares if diversity good or bad for "the e...who cares if diversity good or bad for "the economy"?<br /><br />i don't like it, period. full stop.<br /><br />i want little or none of it.<br /><br />i'm allowed to want what i want, and im allowed to demand the government give me policies that i want, just because i want them<br /><br />my wanting no diversity just because i want no diversity is every bit as valid as someone else wanting lots of it for whatever reason<br /><br />couching things in terms of "is it good for the economy" is staying within the system, and the system hates me<br /><br />and i hate the system<br /><br />some day i will say this non anonymouslyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26167269972125711832014-01-24T21:44:05.890-08:002014-01-24T21:44:05.890-08:00I tend to think diversity is like alcohol. A littl...I tend to think diversity is like alcohol. A little makes life more interesting and probably is good for you. Too much and you die.Foreign Expertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28141638562180640992014-01-24T21:35:42.875-08:002014-01-24T21:35:42.875-08:00Mr Chua also says that “ambient cultural disharmon...<i>Mr Chua also says that “ambient cultural disharmony” has its strongest impact on people who regard themselves as open-minded. Closed-minded people expect cultural tensions. Open-minded people don’t expect them and so react to them more strongly. ...<br /><br />In all three studies, subjects who had a greater experience of ambient cultural disharmony fell short on one or another of Mr Chua’s measures of creativity.</i><br /><br />I.e., people who are good little adherents of the state ideology are less creative. Sounds about right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89059638413997474362014-01-24T21:25:28.302-08:002014-01-24T21:25:28.302-08:00"This is the theme of many of the corporate i..."This is the theme of many of the corporate image ads you see during the Olympics and golf tournaments."<br /><br />I'm looking forward to the Winter Olympics, but the Olympic ads are just so <i>smarmy</i>. There's the endless diversity rubbish, of course, but it's more than that.<br /><br />You have the constant, cloying invocation of "dreams"; the flag-waving by multinational companies that don't really care about the country (see "diversity" above); the incredibly lame metaphors linking the widget industry to bobsledding or whatever; and so on.<br /><br />Golf tournament ads evince many of the same characteristics, but still, they're an order of magnitude better than Olympic ads. The golf ads are aimed at middle-management suburbanites, while the Olympic ads appear to be targeted at the cat lady in the next cubicle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com