Say Anything Blog

All I can say is wow.

This is like when a company states that they value diversity.  The primary way to “value diversity” is to place a higher value on employees deemed more diverse, which thus places a lower value on those who are less diverse.  Since race is the primary indication of diversity, many diversity programs appear to advocate racial discrimination.

I was really surprised.  North Dakota has usually always made this list with one or two cities.  Since most people see ND as a pretty inhospitable place to live, we’ve always been sort of proud of it.

But now, this year, because of the racial-makeup part of it not one single ND city made the list.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Rob, I didn’t notice that it mention those were the criteria people go on. I read it as the criteria the magazine has decided to go on. It’s yet, just another ridiculous way of covering the truth. Obviously though, the magazine prefers to stifle any actuations of discrimination.
The survey is pointless as far as accuracy.

Pretty insane.  From where I sit, one of the reasons people move from where they are to a “better place” is when the place they are becomes “too diverse” (ahem).  Not politically correct, but a simple fact of life than any honest person could not ignore. 

One might even suspect that “the best places to live” would coincide with the places that the most people are choosing to move to.  Likewise the worst places would be those that people are leaving in droves…

They don’t call it “white flight” for nothing…

[Feet make good soup!]

I think most people tend to like to live around other people like them, if they have a choice.  Most larger communities have neighborhoods that tend toward one cultural demographic or another.

There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as it happens by choice.  It’s just human nature I guess.

But punishing ND cities just because we’re mostly of Scandanavian/German descent up here is pretty unfair.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

I noticed this, too, as well as Money’s preference for government spending on green space and downtown development.  Click on my name to read my post.

White = “homogeneous”?

Huh.

Tell that to the Germans, French, Italians, and British. They fought all of those wars for hundreds of years for NOTHING. They’re all the “same”.

In the name of “diversity”, they miss that we’re all different. How freaking ironic.

I assume that the Turtle Mountain Reservation just barely missed the cut.

As a Montanan from Billings, we are pretty white bread.  Lots of Natives, but not a lot of blacks and hispanics.  It is not that we don’t want them in our communities, it is that they don’t want to be there.  What drawing power is there to a state where your culture does not exist?  Try to get good Mexican food in Billings.  Or Soul Food.  Find a Jazz club or a Cantina with Mariachi music.  But if you want Brats, Beer, Rodeos, and steak, we are the place. 

Note, that the midwest is not a haven for gays either.  Why?  Because they find it more hospitable to move from small towns to larger cities where they have more anonymity and more cultural and employment options.  I don’t think these places are any more inherently “racist” or “homophobic” than anywhere else, but they certainly have a different culture that it happens some Americans actually prefer to the city and Political Correctness.

Now, short of Cross Burnings and savage gay beatings, what is wrong with that?  Short of kicking diverse folks out, how is it our problem that Blacks, Gays, and so on don’t want to live in the midwest smaller communities?  I don’t see tons of Jews living outside of the city.  We don’t have a lot of Asians either.

I don’t see tons of Jews living outside of the city.

How would anyone know?

lack of synsagogues.

A Harvard professor recently released some results on a diversity study.  The study was so discongruent with his beliefs, he sat on them for a long tiem.

http://vdare.com/sailer/070701_diversity.htm

A couple of interesting quotes:

“His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone – from their next-door neighbour to the mayor. … ‘In the presence of diversity, we hunker down,’ he said. ‘We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.’” [Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity October 8, 2006]

Between his opening and closing “diversity happy-talk,” his quantitative middle section—“Immigration and Diversity Foster Social Isolation”—is a social science barnburner:

“… in terms of the effect on neighbourly trust, the difference between living in an area as homogeneous as Bismarck, North Dakota, and one as diverse as Los Angeles is roughly as great as the difference between an area with a poverty rate of 7 percent and one with a poverty rate of 23 percent, or between an area with 36 percent college graduates and one with none.”