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Resist diversity
A term used a lot during this year’s ASG presidential campaign is diversity.
The definition of diversity:
1. the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.
2. variety; multiformity.
3. a point of difference.
So why does MHCC have a director of diversity? Isn’t that exactly what you want to avoid?
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If you make people feel diverse or different from other people, you create insecurity, you create hatred. Diversity creates hatred. It always has and always will, because we all know that history repeats itself, or as my writing teacher says, “The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.”
In the 16th century, many native Americans were killed because they were different. They had a different skin tone, a different language, a different religion.
In the 17th century, slaves were imported to America. The slaves were mostly imported from Africa and were treated horribly by our founding fathers. They were diverse because of their skin tone and their language.
In the 18th century, the French revolution took place. This revolution existed because people had diverse thought about their country. They all had the same skin color and language, but there were monarchists and republicans. These two groups clashed because of their different opinions and millions died in the revolution.
In the 19th century, not only did we fight the Civil War but veterans of the Confederate Army founded the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK has a record of terrorism, violence and lynching to intimidate, murder and oppress African Americans, Jews and other minorities. I hope this doesn’t need more explanation, but diversity turned out not to be so great.
In the 20th century, Hitler was responsible for killing thousands, if not millions, of Jews and blacks. Millions of families were torn apart because of Hitler’s hatred toward different religions and different skin tones.
In the 21st century, the World Trade Center in New York City was attacked by terrorists, which created hatred toward everyone that looked Middle-eastern. People are held captive because of their skin color or their religion and are not given a fair trial.
This is a quick overview of what diversity has meant throughout history. But don’t we all just want to be accepted for who we are and not because of our skin tone.
We shouldn’t create or increase diversity, we should abandon it completely. We shouldn’t judge people on the way they look, the way they talk or the way they dress, we should accept their views. We don’t have to agree with their views, but at least accept their opinion. I don’t want to be part of a group that consists only of people that look like me, think like me and act like me.
We don’t need more diversity — we need acceptance and compassion.