{"id":2623,"date":"2012-10-07T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2012-10-07T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T08:49:38","slug":"conservatives-and-the-diversity-dross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives and the diversity dross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The next news item is unremarkable. \u201cThe U.S. government,\u201d reports Fox News<\/a>, \u201cpaid a Chicago consultant hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on diversity training workshops that, according to one watchdog, included an exercise in which employees were told to chant \u2018our forefathers were illegal immigrants.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you expect from \u201cthe U.S. government\u201d? It\u2019s a criminal gang out to erase every vestige of a history that might rekindle in a pliant people the quest for freedom. The government, and its excrescences, do these things reflexively rather than as a matter of collusion and conspiracy. Like a big amorphous amoeba\u2014a simple, single-celled organism\u2014government will instinctively act to preserve its own integrity.<\/p>\n

The people to condemn in his story are the \u201cConservative group Judicial Watch.\u201d While we are grateful to JW for uncovering the bestialities of bureaucrats\u2014in the substance of their complaint, they are almost as complicit as government. They complain that,<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of being diversity-oriented or tolerance-oriented, it\u2019s more about adopting a mindset,\u201d said Lisette Garcia, a senior investigator with the group.<\/p>\n

Garcia of Judicial Watch is quite fine with the government conducting mind-control workshops on taxpayers’ dime, so long as these indoctrination sessions transmit true \u201cdiversity and tolerance,\u201d as promised.<\/p>\n

What kind of a conservatism is this? The watchdogs are worse than the dogs in power (my apologies to dogs). At least the people who dreamed up the \u201cdiversity intelligence advantage course\u201d know what they are after. What do Garcia and her friends want?<\/p>\n

A truly conservative watch dog would, first, object to the unconstitutional appropriation of taxpayer funds. Second, they would reject the diversity doxology. Americans should not relinquish their birthright for a mess of pottage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Were Lisette Garcia of Judicial Watch a true conservative she\u2019d take the opportunity to mention that \u201cThomas Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The settlers spilt their own blood \u201cin acquiring lands for their settlement,\u201d he wrote with pride in A Summary View of the Rights of British America<\/em>. \u201cFor themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have right to hold.\u201d Thus they were \u201centitled to govern those lands and themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Ilana’s blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next news item is unremarkable. \u201cThe U.S. government,\u201d reports Fox News, \u201cpaid a Chicago consultant hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on diversity training workshops that, according to one watchdog, included an exercise in which employees were told to chant \u2018our forefathers were illegal immigrants.\u2019\u201d What do you expect from \u201cthe U.S. government\u201d? … Continue reading “Conservatives and the diversity dross”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[1553,1580,12254,745],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-ilana-mercer","tag-diversity","tag-diversity-training","tag-ilana-mercer","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ilana_mercer_and_book.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}