If Diversity is the Answer, What's the Question? Part I

"If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. The very idea of testing this wonderful, magical word against something as ugly as reality seems almost sordid." Thomas Sowell

By Rich Kozlovich

One of the major problems with understanding what activists are up to is how they've high jacked language.  They take words that are easily understood, twist them and misapply them.   Words such as diversity.  For most Americans of my generation we understood that American diversity meant we had a large variety of people living in America from all over the world.  All contributing to the American culture, the American identity and the American economy.  All working to have the American dream and become a united people with the added benefits of what different cultures contributed.

That's not what leftists mean when they use the word diversity.  Their goal is to destroy any concept of an American culture, an American identity, the American economy, overturn the Constitution, and destroy any idea of American unity unless it's being unified under a socialist dictatorial regime.  Once that happens....Oh there will be unity all right, but as in all the failed leftist regimes of history that have infested the world, they will insist in unity of thought, and those thoughts will be disastrous.

That's history and that history is incontestable, and now government, society, corporations and trade associations are falling into their trap. Embracing unending failure is insanity!

I've been outraged ever since I received this e-mail from NPMA saying:

We’ve all been struck silent for the past ten days struggling with the scenes playing out over television and computer screens everywhere. But, it’s clear that now is not the time for silence. It’s the time to find our voices and join them together to honor those who have been wronged and to forge a better, united future standing against racism and injustice.

To our Black members, the Black community, your families and those of you who have experienced inherent racism, NPMA stands with you. We recognize that your experiences are unique and we all have much to learn. Please know that we are committed to doing just that. We are here to listen, to learn, to improve and to contribute where it makes sense.

Given the critical need to focus on this important issue, we will be diligent in our commitment to shine a renewed spotlight on diversity, inclusion and equality during our upcoming meetings as part of every agenda. In addition, we are planning for a Diversity Forum at Pestworld, and we hope you will join us in the discussion there. Every voice must be heard.

We all need to be committed to learning more about how we can end racism.

What exactly does that mean? What exactly does all this entail?  Why exactly is this so critical, and if this is so critical, why didn't NPMA notice it before insane misfits started destroying the nation?

And as for "every voice must be heard":  Really?  I guess we'll see about that!

As I read this I wondered who is the leftist ideologue at NPMA who wrote this?   A writer who gives the impression they never read a history book, only watch TV news, and only read the New York Times and other corrupt rags of similar ilk.  

Also I wonder if they ever read a dictionary.  "Inherent" racism.  Really?  Did anyone look up the word inherent before sending out this piece of clabber, especially to an industry that has been the most exemplary and accepting industry in the world.  Our industry has accepted all people's regardless of race, gender or sexual preference, which I will be covering in this continuing series of articles dealing with the cancer of leftism and their definition of diversity and it's goals.  

Well, at 74, I'm soon to be gone, but in the meanwhile, I'm not going quietly into the night.  I love this industry and I will not allow anyone, including bureaucrats, activists, or fellow travelers within the industry to degrade who and what we are, and what we have been.

It would appear the NPMA has decided to descend into the labyrinth world of leftist social engineering, which is really rich, since once upon a time there was an attempt to  restrict me from posting on the Open Forum because of my views, which only involved issues of business, economics, pesticide issues, regulations, and our needs as an industry.  I did not involve social engineering issues.  Well, it would appear the NPMA is now shredding their own rules - I will follow that lead. 

If we're going to do social issues, domestic and international, I have massive files, and between 700 and 800 of my own commentaries on social issues, domestic politics, history and geopolitics.  Articles that explain things like why N. Korea won't start WWIII,  Why is a paper tiger socially, economically, demographically and militarily.   Why the will be gone before the end of this decade.  Why Trump's are a good move for America economically and geopolitically at this point in time because we've come to the end of the

I have files on every social issue humanity has faced for thousands of years.  I have files on, the civil war, Johnson's Great Society programs, FDR's new deal, the Great Depression, and the infiltration of communist spies in his administration, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt's progressive view that the Constitution is an impediment to human progress, and in my computer I have saved massive files on Global Warming, along with 's, and I will happily share all of that on a daily basis with our membership on the Open Forum.

If there are no rules, then there are no rules!

Friends don't always see reality the same light, as an example, at Legislative Day one year a friend once said to me, (with a more than small hint of accusatory disdain I might add), "you thrive on confrontation".  Snarkily, I said, "Yes I do!"   What I didn't explain, because I felt I didn't have to is, I don't do confrontation for confrontation's sake.  I believe in confrontation when there's something worth confronting.  I believe there are times that someone needs to stand up and say what needs to be said, and then be prepared to take the heat.  I am prepared!
  

 I've stored source articles for my commentaries on this issue, and here they are to share with you:

• The 'Diversity' Fraud 
• Diversity and Inclusion Insanity
• Cult Programming in Seattle 
• The American Soviet Mentality - Collective demonization invades our culture 
• How a Twitter Mob Derailed an Immigrant Female Author’s Budding Career
• What ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Has Wrought 
• The Problem with Abstract Concepts
• Jews fight back against de Blasio's continued persecution 
• Whom are you going to call?
• The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation
• Anti-police madness metastasizes as SF mayor plans to send in social workers in their place
•  Seattle’s cowardly capitulation contrasts with 4 other cities putting down attempts to establish ’autonomous zones’
•  Business departs the inner cities
• Serial kneeling of America 
• The plight of blacks who believe in America’s promise - 
• We Didn’t Fight for a Marxist America  
• There was a dumpster fire in the autonomous zone so citizens of the CHAZ called the Seattle fire department What a perfect metaphor
• CHAZ offers useful insights into the practical realities of revolutionary communes - 
• Nashville autonomous zone 'will not be tolerated,' Tennessee governor warns amid threat
• Entire Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief kneels with protesters 
• Scott Adams has had a brilliant insight about the demand for reparations 
• The futility of reparations
• It's not just policing that Black Lives Matter wants to change
• The irony of kneeling during the National Anthem
• Defund the police: Wrong target, right idea
• Three Species of Protesters
• Devolution to Revolution: An Already Demoralized U.S. is Now Being Destabilized
• The Problem with George Will
• America’s New Caste System?
• Where Black Lives Don't Matter
• Race Isn’t Going Away 
• What If Police Officers Go on Strike?
• Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?
• The Wound to Our Social Order Is Deep and Pervasive
• Democrat Cities: Fourth-World Scourges
• White America's Alleged Inner Racist
• Glenn Loury: 'We're Being Swept Along by Hysteria' About Racism in America
• TheMob’s Support For Rayshard Brooks Exposes Them For The Race-Baiting Hypocrites They Are

Okay, so you're all in for diversity, right?  Tell me, when was the last time you had dinner with a street bum at your home.  How many?  And how often?