Thursday, November 03, 2011

Conformity in the name of diversity

I find George Will to be one of the more insightful contrarians on the opinions page. Here's a good article from him again.

For those not interested in clicking, here's an excerpt:

Although Vanderbilt is a private institution, its policy is congruent with “progressive” public policy, under which society shall be made to progress up from a multiplicity of viewpoints to a government-supervised harmony. Vanderbilt’s policy, formulated in the name of enlarging rights, is another skirmish in the progressives’ struggle to deny more and more social entities the right to deviate from government-promoted homogeneity of belief. Such compulsory conformity is, of course, enforced in the name of diversity.