Tim was a big proponent of diversity, but he wanted to go further than the usual stuff. "I am for having women in the newsroom and minorities in the newsroom -- I'm all for it. It opens up our eyes and gives us different perspectives. But just as well, let's have people with military experience; let's have people from all walks of life, people from the top-echelon schools but also people from junior colleges and the so-called middling schools -- that's the pageantry of America . . . You need cultural diversity, you need ideological diversity. You need it."
I think that is absolutely one of the most important points I have ever read on the subject.
You can run pine logs through a lumber mill and get 2 x 4's. You can run oak logs through a lumber mill and get 2 x 4's. And that's the point.
Loading up with people from the same schools and the same backgrounds is not diversity, no matter what their color or gender. You get a color/gender view from the same point. And no, it's not a conspiracy. It's just that everyone "knows" the same thing, the same people, go to the same restaurants, the same movies, etc.
And that's worse than an actual conspiracy because in a conspiracy some of the members might realize they are wrong and reform. Now you have a conspiracy based on ignorance of the rest of the country and the real world.
And that's as deadly as a one year old trying to pet Daddy's pet boa constrictor. The child knows it's okay. He saw Daddy feed it. He knows the snake is hungry and eats small animals. But he doesn't know that the snakle sees him as a small animal.
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