All this week it is 'Diversity and Equality week'. And in my opinion its one of the worst creations of anal liberals. The whole idea is filled with cringe worthy buzz words such as 'ethno-diversity' and 'equal opportunities'. These may have originally represented some very important and noble concepts but now they are plain annoying. At my college it had honestly been suggested that discrimination existed because male and female toilets were not in perfect uniform symmetry and, depending on your lesson, different sexes were subject to the horrors of unequal distance. A whole 60 seconds or more.
There seems to be such a fear of discrimination and racism that we have become completely and unnecessarily wary of such things. The fact is I am not racist, I don't hate people based on their heritage. And if the majority of the population knows this, why are the majorities so frightened? I absolutely refuse to endorse such fussy and crass celebrations of discrimination, albeit positive. Discrimination is discrimination and doing it positively does not change that. Statistics can be extremely tricky in this respect. The fact is that in Britain the majority of the population is Caucasian, so in the setting of things like job application, the post is far more likely to go to someone in the majority. It is, in my view, wrong to use legislation to put the scales out of balance for any criteria of discrimination.
In fact we have gone completely the other way to avoid reality, truth and things people may not find pleasant. Several displays are about in my college describing dyslexia as a 'gift' saying people with dyslexia are more creative and intuitive. The displays are based on absolutely no fact and have been put up to promote difference and diversity. The fact that it is bollocks doesn't seem to come into it. If anything it makes it seem as if a person is heavily defined by learning difficulty. In extreme cases, maybe. But otherwise, such people have to learn to deal with and manage such things, the idea that slowness in learning and difficulties in read and writing is somehow a gift they should enjoy is downright offensive. Not to mention patronising.
Such paranoid efforts to eliminate any chance that we may perform actions with the slightest ability to be interpreted as non-P.C, completely degrade truly important and noble ideas like equality and tolerance. They shouldn't be made into crass buzz words for the Guardian reader to drop into polite conversation (please excuse this coarse generalisation :-) ). The worst thing is, you are labelled a racist money-lover who beats kittens, should you be inclined to express a contrary opinion.
Its like religion and new age theories of well being. People may genuinely believe them. They may feel very strongly with regards to them. But this does not make them right. Only more deluded if they believe something that isn't correct. Deities are good example, they are nice ideas and evidently very inspiring for causes, both good and bad. But the complete lack of reliable evidence leaves their existence as highly improbable. At any rate religions are big business and the disproof of deities would cause alot of people to end up with egg on their faces. Best leave it alone then.
I guess what I am trying to say, is that hiding away from the facts just because people may get offended and going to silly lengths to wrap people up in bubbles is completely counter-productive. The ' Well that's your opinion and I think that's great' attitude is not always a good option. To avoid wars maybe. But otherwise I would prefer to see people with the courage to say 'Well that's your opinion and its wrong'. This may cause people to realise possibly upsetting truths but it is far better than living in a world of ludicrous denial.
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