“Diversity” Is Our Weakness

The shibboleth that “diversity is our strength” is one of the worst canards of our time. - John Hinderaker

There is a great deal of empirical data indicating that in general, cultural diversity is a weakness, not a strength. 

• Culturally diverse societies (which can mean ethnically diverse, but doesn’t have to) are generally lower-trust societies, which inhibits economic growth. 

Western Europe is living proof of that proposition.

• But there is another way in which “diversity” in the DEI sense–i.e., the jerry-rigged quotas resulting from an obsession with race, sex, and sexual orientation–is bad...