Coulter says diversity has "Jumped the Shark," compares it to cancer, pollution
November 18, 2009 10:13 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From Coulter's November 18 column, headlined "At the End of the Day, Diversity has Jumped the Shark":
It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength."
As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.
Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare -- I mean the beautiful mosaics -- in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!"
Sorry Ann, but diversity is strength!
No kidding, tangaroa. I can't think of anybody else who has run such a weak act into the ground by constantly trying to outdo herself.
Besides the fact that "Jumping the shark" may have been a fairly fresh phrase 10 or 15 years ago, she really doesn't seem clear on how to use it. How does a concept like "diversity" jump the shark?
Another casualty of prolonged immersion in the out-of-touch right wing bubble.
And the cancer analogy really doesn't work, does it?
Jazz, Hip Hop, Salsa, Rock and Roll, Reggae, Swing, Blues, Pop, Soul, the list goes on
Every sport known to man besides football, baseball, and basketball
Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, just a few great minds that were of different cultural backgrounds, the list also goes on
Yeah diversity sucks!!!!!!
The free market sure as hell does. Pollution is all we'd have if industry were left alone.
Ann will have to remove every since minority group, whether it be race, religion, sexual belief...
Wait a minute. Aren't conservatives in the minority?
"We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: 'Cancer is a strenth!' 'Pollution is our greatest asset!'"
That's actually not quite true. We are, as a nation, very creative and able to find solutions to difficult problems, like cancer and pollution. And, I do trumpet America's amazing ability to break down and solve problems that seem insurmountable, like putting a man on the Moon. Like starting off behind and still winning a world war. Twice.
But, the health care system that found ways of curing cancer? Touted as the 'best in the world' by people on your side of the aisle arguing against health coverage reform? Perhaps you've heard them 'mindlessly exclaiming' how much better health care is in America than any other country, especially Britain and Canada? And, we do have good health care, for the few who can still afford it. So, yes, there are people who mindlessly exclaim it, and many are friends of yours.
No Ann. Diversity (i.e., working to understand and accept our cultural, religious, ethnic, and other differences) is not a difficulty. The difficulties are the racism, sexism, religious intolerance (and every other tribal behavior) that diversity seeks to overcome. You stupid twit.