By Paul Weiser
Liberals celebrate “diversity,” demand that any group of people “look like America,” and accuse those who disagree of racism or “homophobia.” We should identify the fundamental condition underlying all these elite prejudices and their associated perversions - to which “diversity” and “homophobia” talk provides the key.
Consider “gay marriage,” that is, the assertion that same-sex couples should be equally permitted to marry. But wait - where is diversity? Where the demand that every state-sponsored institution (which liberals insist marriage, like college admissions or a sample workforce, is) show “representation” of the sexes proportionate to that in the general population - no excuses accepted, on pain of presumptive bigotry?
Of course the ratio of men to women in America is so close to 1:1 that only heterosexual marriage could possibly be “representative.” And doesn’t homosexual “marriage” - whether sodomite or lesbian - show exactly the bigoted unwillingness to admit The Other that “diversity” demands attack? Doesn’t heterosexual-only marriage, in other words, force liberals’ desired diversity, requiring men to associate with women and women with men to gain The Other’s supremely valuable alternative worldview?
The answer is, of course, “No.” This reveals a very important feature of the elite: they do not, in fact, possess any allegiance to “diversity” of views - rather, they fear it. This goes beyond intolerance to a real pathology - call it heterophobia, a dread not merely of the other sex, race or ideology but all difference. Liberals universally display heterophobia to a lesser (the sneer) or greater (screaming obscenities) degree - one need only review Democrats’ response to President Bush, or the Red Chinese reaction to Falun Gong.
One may speculate on root causes of heterophobia - a syndrome whose symptoms are clear. Most likely is the simple, unacknowledged understanding that one is in the wrong.
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