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[quote=Anonymous]It's difficult for me to take with any sincerity the desire for diversity because at the end what happens is they go to a school where everyone thinks the same and votes the same and parrots the same thing. There's preciously little ideological diversity at the elite schools and it's gotten worse over time.

I also don't care if you look at a group and say, wow, three different races, because if everyone agrees the same, that's not diversity.

It's bonus points, ticking off a checklist of approved criteria without really offering anything meaningful. In real life what happens is that the rich kids stick with the rich kids in their elusive world, the UMC progressive kids hang out with the other UMC progressive kids, the black kids hang out with the other black kids, the kids on the margins ie from small rural towns always feel somewhat on the margin and never fit in. The kids who boast the most about wanting to learn from diverse viewpoints never learn anything new because they also don't really want to learn anything new. They just seek the very limited range of preapproved ideas to suit and justify their preconceived biases. Then after graduation they move to Brooklyn to become "activists" and repeat the same ideologically narrow acceptance of ideas and viewpoints  :roll:

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