Media That Matters: pushing the twin dogmas of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’
While browsing the local library's DVD collection I ran across an interesting title: 3rd Annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Like most red blooded card carrying conservatives, I'm "obsessed" with the media in general and liberwocks in particular. So, of course, I just had to read the "liner notes" on this piece of work.
The description for what's on this DVD begins with three questions:
- Is your neighbor Latino?
- Can you change a cop's attitude with a camcorder?
- How many schools can you build for the price of a tank?
Each one of these little questions features a video highlighting neoliberal orthodoxy. A couple of the more oxyClintonic tenets they kowtow to are the twin dogmas of "tolerance" and "diversity." Let us explore, for a moment, these two pillars of modern liberalism.
In both instances we find that these terms are loaded. The liberal establishment means something altogether different from the denotative meaning of these terms. Tolerance, for example, is only applied to shared ideologies. The same is true for diversity. For example, you won't be tolerated if you are profiled by neoliberals as a "hater." (I call it ideological profiling.) Similarly, diversity is only celebrated if you share the same set of philosophical beliefs. If your values are out of step with the liberal "statement of faith," you will be excommunicated. Your diversity won't be celebrated.
In "honor" of these guys I decided that I needed to come up with my own grouping of complimentary questions–a bit of conservative yang to counterbalance the liberal yin:
- Is your neighbor an illegal alien?
- Can you change a liberal's attitude by treating them fairly?
- How many lives can be saved by putting your money in a blender and pressing "frappe"?
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