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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsdid you know that "diversity" is a bad word? no, a really, *really* bad word?
according to right-wingers, anyway. normal people think diversity is a good thing, or at least they accept the concept.
it's not just that they disagree with it, they treat it like the worst of swear words.
when we visited my brother-in-law, he *banned* us from uttering the word in his house, lest his 8 year-old son hear the word. and it's not just him, we've heard similar stories from others, i'm sure foxnews and rush are telling him that.
i get that they don't like the concept, but treating it like it's a swear word is really bizarre.
ah, the joys of family....
Wounded Bear
(58,629 posts)kindly don't try to cloud the issue with facts!"
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(52,183 posts)he's in north dakota now. apparently it's not white enough so he's thinking about moving to wyoming.
shanti
(21,675 posts)who would go ballistic if he saw an interracial couple/family. He should stay far away from California!
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(52,183 posts)he'd quit his job if they tried to send him on a business trip there!
The Velveteen Ocelot
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(52,183 posts)yeah, he can't ban "tolerance", because the right-wing insists the rest of us "tolerate" their odious sturm und drang.
he of course fumed at how we were able to get around his silly rules.
but at the end of the day, if he insists on raising a little hitler youth, there's not much we can do about it....
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Make sure to emphasize the beginning part of the word when you say it.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)Hekate
(90,627 posts)Easy peasy.
The ones who have an insurmountable problem with Science are the fundamentalists.
Hugin
(33,112 posts)They don't even like it toasted.
Beausoleil
(2,843 posts)when "diversity" is weeded out of the gene pool.
As was the racial purity of the Nazis.
And anyway, why can't we all be exactly alike? Why can't everyone in the world think like I want them to?
As we learn from the right wing, you cannot just be "different" or disagree, you must be wrong (evil, defective).
ck4829
(35,042 posts)brush
(53,763 posts)forestall the near future. By the 2030s the nation will be a majority minority nation as whites will no longer over 50% of the population.
Diversity will then be unavoidable and undeniable. Wonder what will they do then?
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Everytime I think of that phrase/meme I smile.
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)telling you, like you were a damn child, what words you're allowed to use?
I once drove 3.5 hours once to go to my BIL's daughter's wedding reception and he started shaking his finger, right in my face, about "YOUR PRESIDENT" (Obama) 3 minutes after I took my coat off. I shit you not, the only thing I had said to him at all at that point was light, small talk about the weather. Nota single breath climate change mind you, just light, ordinary talk about some heavy rain that had fallen recently.
I didn't even speak. I just picked up my coat, looked at my SIL and thanked her for inviting us and left. Drove the 3.5 hours back home, and I never did that shit again.
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(52,183 posts)if he was able to put his anti-semitism aside long enough to do that, while watching his sister marry a jew , we can avoid a word or two when visiting him in his own house.
but yeah, doesn't mean it isn't infuriating....
ck4829
(35,042 posts)pandr32
(11,574 posts)I would throw it into everything like mentioning the diversity of the dishes served on the table, the diversity of the plants in the garden, the diversity of the contents of the fridge, the diversity of items in the closets and drawers, the diversity of the shows on TV, etc. to take away any unfortunate stigma they try to attach to it and to show that it is a word that means variety--not so scary.
I am already enjoying my coffee in the "Merry Coffee" cup from Starbucks and look forward to some happy holidays.
We must do what we can to troll deplorables.
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(52,183 posts)G_j
(40,366 posts)ck4829
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(35,042 posts)DBoon
(22,353 posts)Does he have documentation of his family tree going back several centuries?
Is he sure he is of pure Aryan blood?
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(52,183 posts)100% european, nearly all anglo-saxon.
father never did, but probably similar, maybe more german than british.
but if he turned out to be 3% black, e.g., he'd dismiss it as irrelevant.
csziggy
(34,135 posts)I'd bet he would not like knowing that he is part "cave man" even though Neanderthal were very intelligent beings that used technology in similar ways to the Homo Sapiens who took their territory.
Initech
(100,059 posts)Sad that today's conservatives have the same definition of diversity as Ron Burgundy does.