Saturday, November 26, 2011

OWS, Diversity, and Equality

This is a very interesting observation about the Occupy Wall Street movement that, curiously, hasn't come to light yet:  only 1.6 percent of the protestors are black.  Furthermore, only 2.6% are Asian, only 6.8% are Hispanic, and (surprise, surprise) only 2.4% say they are Republicans.  Of course the major stories involving the Tea Party was the supposed racism of its members because of the lack of diversity.  Where are the same stories about the lack of diversity regarding the OWS mob?

The Left seems only concerned with diversity when it applies to others, not to themselves.  But as far as it goes, this critique of liberal hypocrisy--which is the typical conservative critique--doesn't really get at the heart of the matter.  How about this critique:  It is wrong by nature to categorize people based on something like skin color, which does not have any bearing whatsoever on their moral character, or capacity for reason.  Skin color, an accident of nature, does not determine anything about a person.  We can't reasonably infer anything about a person based on attributes that have no bearing on them as a moral person.  So, for example, we cannot infer anything about the intentions of a group of people simply on the basis of their racial composition.  The Left's obsession with race in order to achieve equality, ironically, furthers and engenders racial animosity and leaves us farther away from the principle of all men are created equal.


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