This was posted in a previous discussion entitled
Why didn't Hollywood save New Orleans?
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Show me where the president did one action to demonstrate he was not racist. Not one reason exists to believe this is an accusation of racism. To believe otherwise is to take what was posted completely out of context. It is a simple statement. Show me one action by George Jr during this New Orleans disaster that could demonstrate he was not a racist. It is a simple question of logic that requires a simple answer in logic. Show me.
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It was just that; nothing more. Every intent of that post was in that post. And yet review so many responses. So many wanted to read into that post a hidden agenda. I don't do that. I am the world's worst politician because I speak bluntly; consider political correctness akin to what others consider evil. If I had a hidden agenda in that post, I would have posted it - bluntly. There was no hidden agenda. And yet others could not admit that post only asked what it asked.
I am struck by same responses to Flint's post. You and I don't care what he may have posted anywhere else, when replying here. He asked a simply question - nothing more - nothing less. He asked:
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Is the ultimate goal of society to oppose diversity?
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No one answered a simple question. Many instead asked for an 'agenda'. With so many responses, where did one ever answer the original question – without personal biases - emotions - attached to their response?
The answer: No. A society that opposes diversity dies. Death is not the purpose of society. It is why societies that oppose diversity - that endorse hate, racial purity, intolerance, commandants from dictators, and that stifle its most valuable asset - the little people - are therefore dying societies. It is why containment works so well and why preemption is not productive.
What was the secret to Rome? Rome endorsed and assimilated diversity. What made Islam so dominant up to the 1400s? Same tolerance to diversity. A tolerance limited only by certain and specific principles that provided that society with a common fabric.
The purpose of society is to permit diversity - as much diversity as society can tolerate. Some answers to his question demonstrated intolerance - such as assuming a hidden agenda. Such biases -such as assuming a hidden agenda - only undermine the purpose of a successful society. BTW, reasons that justify a hidden agenda also imply a sick society. He asked a simply question and did not even receive a simply answer - without hidden agendas.