DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURALISM: THE NEW RACISM

by Michael S. Berliner, Ph.D. and Gary Hull, Ph.D.
Senior Writers, Ayn Rand Institute

In Fatal Blindness, I commented on "cultural diversity:"

"By being able to get you to mentally segregate yourself into a certain group which has special 'rights,' they pit man against woman, black against white, poor against rich, young against old, all the while getting you to forget you are an individual first, keeping you from being united with all individuals in the one interest common to all: the protection of the individual’s right to life and liberty. Statists have adopted, from the military, a very old and successful tactic in their efforts to become your masters: divide and conquer. Statists must divide you into groups in order to conquer you—this is essential to their success—and this is exactly what is happening in America today. This is the real meaning of the much-touted 'cultural diversity,' this is the reason statists, mostly and particularly liberals and their media allies, promote it so vigorously and why the number of groups demanding special 'rights' keeps growing. The more, the merrier for statists. 'Cultural diversity' really means: cultural division, divisions along every possible line, divisions which create warring factions who battle, politically, each other for special privileges, favors and handouts—all forcibly carved out of your life and wallet by a government gun. And the upshot of this statist feeding frenzy is the diminution of individual liberty and the destruction of the real meaning, in the minds of most, of your right to life and liberty, a meaning which is lost in the furious din of those statists proclaiming the 'rights' of, for instance, women—'rights' not possessed by men."

Michael Berliner and Gary Hull, in this excellent article, reveal the corruption of "cultural diversity."

Fulton Huxtable
June 21, 1998

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