Coulter says diversity has "Jumped the Shark," compares it to cancer, pollution

[babylonsister]

:wow: Who has jumped the shark? Poor annie feeling neglected? :eyes:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911180062

Coulter says diversity has "Jumped the Shark," compares it to cancer, pollution

November 18, 2009 10:13 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From Coulter's November 18 column, headlined "At the End of the Day, Diversity has Jumped the Shark":

It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength."

As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.

Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare -- I mean the beautiful mosaics -- in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.

"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!"

[peace frog]

1. Coultergeist wouldn't know a jumped shark

if it jumped up and bit her bony ass. FEH.

[marmar]

2. I agree, Ann. We've been far too tolerant of psychotic bigoted white Right-Wing authors....

.... with limited intelligence and marginal writing skills.

[Johonny]

9. lol

Yeah pointless racial and religious intolerance is a weakness. Americas strength is that there is no state religion or state preferred ethnic group and we have state documents that in theory protect you from having this. If you don't get that than how can you possibly have a job writing op eds in America about America. Sad really.

[Deep13]

10. +1

[rucky]

3. Is it just me...

or did the TV wingnuts used to be more subtle about their racism in the Bush years?

They're trolling for violence. It's obvious to everyone, so why can't it be proven in court?

[JuniperLea]

31. Exactly!

They will be wearing their team uniform out in public again before we know it!

Guess I'm late with that prediction... Google image found one... ugh...

:cry:



They have new brown people for us to hate now... it keeps our eyes off the situation... we're all being oppressed... but when they have us poor folks fighting amongst ourselves, they don't have to worry about us fighting them so much.

[YOY]

4. She has a new book out, right?

That's usually when she starts saying stupid shit to get that redneck dollar.

[peekaloo]

14. I think so. She reminds me of a Pez dispenser, just tilt back her head

and something offensive, that's likely to get stuck in your throat, pops out.

[StarfarerBill]

5. Now, if there was ever a case of the pot calling the kettle black...

Except for the fact that diversity is always a positive, whereas dear Ann is negativity embodied.

[hatrack]

6. Yes, because when you've got 10.2% unemployment, two wars and unimaginable levels of debt . . .

What's really on peoples' minds is the horror of diversity.

Coulter- way beyond pathetic, well into utter irrelevance.

[Warpy]

7. I've always lived in very mixed neighborhoods

and my own part of this southwestern city has just been labeled the international zone by the state lege. I wouldn't have it any other way.

However, the people who want all white, walled enclaves of yuppie barns are a breed apart. I've just never understood them and the feeling is mutual.

That's the poisonous harpy's audience, I think. She knows how to play to them and no ridiculous hyperbole ever goes too far for them.

[treestar]

8. It's quite the opposite

The U.S. has the most diversity and the least strife.

Rwanda - all black, the Balkans, all white. Yet we do not have that kind of violence and we have every conceivable race and religion living here.

Jews and Palestinians get along here. We have both and they don't attack each other here. Likewise Irish Protestants and Catholics. There are just too many groups for any such group to have the time or ability to band together, cause the other side to band together, and fight violently.

And Coultergeist probably claims she loves Amurka.

[goclark]

16. Thanks for your post

So many think this is just because Obama is President.

He just gives them an excuse to be Bullies.

They are Gang Members, "The PUBS" ~ 'Lil Ann, 'Lil Mike , 'Lil Rush and the Gang

They are frustrated when the DEMS don't play into their Bully Tactics.

Oh yes and 'Lil CNN and 'Lil Lou D. are right in there with them. :evil:

[The2ndWheel]

24. "Yet we do not have that kind of violence"

Anymore. It's funny, by the standards of today, America as we know it could never have existed, since it couldn't have run over the people that were already here. The reason America is, is because it had that kind of violence, and it had the ability to see it through to the end(with no UN or other superpower to stop it). It was then free to set up the system that it wanted, and here we are.

Let's not pay ourselves on the back too much. America had that violence, the monopoly on violence was established, and so that violence is no longer necessary.

[treestar]

26. But not continuing ethnic based violence

In the Balkans and Rwanda there isn't an equivalent of the Native Americans.

We have violence, but we don't have ethnic groups squared off against each other killing each other. Not as a general force. We had the Civil Rights Act rather than that, and we have hate crimes laws.

Not that Coultergeist appreciates that.

[Richardo]

11. Ann: 2003 called, it wants its trite cliche back.

[Deep13]

12. Can't help noticing that most of those conflicts are based on irrationality.

Racism and xenophobia are present, though as usual, religion seems to be driving or at least sustaining much of the irrational hatred.

If we have been too tolerant, it has been a tolerance of ideas that are based on a lack of evidence. The problem is not that different kinds of people are together. The problem is different kinds of people have been programmed to hate or be afraid of each other.

[GodlessBiker]

13. Diversity means the freedom to be oneself. Coulter would force us all to be the same thing. Clueless

[TZ]

15. I'm guessing its inbreeding of your ancestors

that lead to such stupidity Ms. Coulter. Yeah,small gene pools leading to the increase of rare diseases in the population..such a good thing. She's the cancer on society...

[The2ndWheel]

17. Well, diversity is inefficient

Our type of diversity seems to be black and white, male and female, all working for the same corporation, for the same money, for the same whatever, etc.

Take out health care system. You could call it diverse. It's inefficient. We want to get rid of it, and just go with a single payer.

Private transportation. Also inefficient. It wastes energy. What we'd like to do is transport more people in a single vehicle(train, bus, etc).

Cash. Inefficient. You've got a bunch of bills in your pocket, all different values. Where we're going is just a single plastic card which is much easier to carry.

Plenty of other examples, in any aspect of life. If nothing else, diversity is definitely inefficient and wasteful. I wish we had more of it. Sign me up for some.

[Efilroft Sul]

18. So much for "E Pluribus Unum."

I wonder if she's feeling the heat with Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin bringing their A-games for crazy.

[bridgit]

19. This quilted hate has a theme and it's best, at least for DU, to see the ways...

in which it is being stitched together before our eyes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7041263&mesg_id=7041263

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7037329

[Brewman_Jax]

20. Switzerland has 4 languages

and they seem to get along quite well.

[Javaman]

21. When did she decide to step out of her crypt?

the voter felon has decided to open her mouth again? seems she has been absent from the public screaming forum for a while.

[brewens]

22. I still can't believe a few things about the diversity training I took...

at the blood center I work for. They had us in groups plying a Jeopardy style game. One of the questions asked us what ethnic group had the higher percentage of welfare recipients? White, black or hispanic? I told them the answer was white and they weren't buying it. I insisted I was right and said that it wasn't even close and they still overruled me! I can't remember which of the other answers they went with but I couldn't believe it.
Then they asked what percentage of the population is gay. 10% was one of the choices and I told them that was the right answer. Again, they don't think so. I told them I see that figure quoted all the time and that even if you don't believe it, that is the accepted figure. We answer 5% and I'm pounding my head on the table!
This training was at out HQ and I work at a remote site on mobile blood drives, so I don't really know most of these people. If I had taken the same training with the crew I work with, they probably would have listened to me.
I guess that's the reason why we have the training. A few of us just didn't really need to be there.

[Political Heretic]

30. Whites are not the highest *percentage* in poverty.

Here's how it works...

Whites, being the overwhelming majority population in American, have more numbers of people in poverty. So by the numbers, more whites are in poverty than anyone else. That makes a lot of since, given that whites are the huge majority of this country.

However, as a percentage of whites, the number of white people in poverty is very small. As a percentage of blacks, the number of black people in poverty is a majority. That's a very important statistic to remember because its a reminded to us of the racial component of poverty. Blacks are disproportionately represented in poverty as compared to whites, even though as a raw number, there are more white people in poverty (simply because there are way more white people in general.)

[brewens]

34. Of course. The point was to let the trainees know that all the ...

welfare does not go to minorities.

[mitchum]

32. That 10% figure is derived from Kinsey's INCREDIBLY flawed research

It may actually be higher or lower, but the 10% figure is a shibboleth that is constantly repeated. With no more validity than the claims for Magic Baby Jesus.

[brewens]

35. I never made any attempt to say that I thought that was accurate...

and I still don't. I do doubt that 10% of the people I know are gay. Most of the few gay people I know don't live in Idaho. At least not anymore. I don't doubt that it could be 10% nationwide.

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[lpbk2713]

25. Still struggling to appear relevant.

Such a tragic and pathetic individual.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. I agree. We need to stop this inclusive diversity shit. We can start by deporting the zombies and

cryptkeeper motherfuckers.

[AlienGirl]

28. This is straight out of David Duke...really. nt

[Political Heretic]

29. Poor (because no one every means rich) non-whites are pollution and a cancer on society.

Thus spake Ann Coulter

[DU GrovelBot]

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[Blue-Jay]

36. I heard the Nazis had a final solution

for all that messy diversity.

She must be so jealous of all the attention Palin is getting so she had to say something more outrageous than usual.