Stuart Buck emailed notice of an article in The American Prospect (if liberalism becomes passé, should we rename it The American Retrospect?) that unwittingly reveals the degree to which “diversity” has become synonymous with race, at least to liberals.
The article discusses a British TV show where the viewers voted on the greatest Britons of all time. 800 “nominees” were presented, and over 30,000 votes came in to select the top 100.
What followed was a series of hour-long television shows devoted to the top 10 vote getters: Winston Churchill, Brunel, Diana, Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Queen Elizabeth I, John Lennon, Horatio Nelson and Oliver Cromwell. In a strange pairing of celebrities past and present, current icons of popular culture were appointed to present the case for their deceased predecessors. They sounded like tag teams or, like this pairing of a conservative politician and long-deceased monarch, presidential tickets: Michael Portillo-Elizabeth I.
At one point during the show, a presenter urged the studio audience to take a closer look at the top 10. Where else would you get such diversity? he asked. The question did not seem to make much sense, as all the finalists were white….
To the current liberal mind, if it’s not black and white and yellow and brown and red, or at least black and white, it’s not diverse.
