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[quote=Anonymous][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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No part of your premise is valid.  You should make an effort to look at the real world and evaluate evidence rather than deciding that you can ignore honest feedback from multiple people because of what the voices in your head are telling you.

One characteristic that you may notice about people who report that they value diversity is that there is a high degree of overlap with people who seek out and value evidence and make decisions based on that.  For example, people who value diversity also tend to not believe that the 2020 election was “stolen” because they look at the so called evidence and saw that it was absurdly, pathetically invalid.  Likewise, people like that tend to believe that vaccines work because they have looked at the objective evidence.  Same thing with climate change, the negative long term impact of widening income inequality, the overwhelming evidence —- most of it funded by police departments — of unequal treatment of people by law enforcement along racial lines, etc.  Perhaps you are confusing this tendency to evaluate evidence and accept evidence-based reality with what you term “lack of ideological diversity.” 
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