{"id":10114,"date":"2011-11-30T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/30\/a-diversity-paradox-for-immigration-expansionists-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:51:05","slug":"a-diversity-paradox-for-immigration-expansionists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/30\/a-diversity-paradox-for-immigration-expansionists-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diversity Paradox for Immigration Expansionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Liberals love &#39;diversity&#39; even at the expense of such obvious goods as unity, assimilation, and comity. So it is something of a paradox that their refusal to take seriously the enforcement of immigration laws has led to a most undiverse stream of immigrants. &quot;While espousing a fervent belief in diversity, immigrant advocates and their allies have presided over a policy regime that has produced one of the <em>least <\/em>diverse migration streams in our history.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2010\/05\/the-crude-moralism-of-immigration-expansionists\">Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In the once golden and great state of California, the Left&#39;s diversity fetishism has led to a letting-go of academics in the Cal State university system with a concomitant retention of administrative &#39;diversity officers.&#39;&#0160;&#0160; Unbelievable but true.&#0160; Heather McDonald reports and comments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/cjc0714hm.html\" target=\"_self\">Less Academics, More Narcissism<\/a>.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My only quibble is her failure to observe the distinction between &#39;less&#39; and &#39;fewer.&#39;&#0160; Use &#39;fewer&#39; with count nouns; &#39;less&#39; with mass terms.&#0160; I don&#39;t have less shovels than you; I have fewer shovels.&#0160; I need fewer shovels because I have less manure.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals love &#39;diversity&#39; even at the expense of such obvious goods as unity, assimilation, and comity. So it is something of a paradox that their refusal to take seriously the enforcement of immigration laws has led to a most undiverse stream of immigrants. &quot;While espousing a fervent belief in diversity, immigrant advocates and their allies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/30\/a-diversity-paradox-for-immigration-expansionists-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Diversity Paradox for Immigration Expansionists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}