Peter Wood, who has been mentioned here several times (here, here, and here, for example) and whose book, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, is must reading, recently sent some of his friends (of whom I am proud to be one) the following regarding a conference on — you guessed it — “Diversity” to which he was mysteriously invited:
The Syracuse University Conference Center high up in the Adirondacks was outfitted like an old-fashioned hunter’s camp. The taxidermists had been kept busy stuffing bobcats, coyotes, black bears, and various varmints, and all the furniture was Adirondack-style bent-stick with bark trim. The rustic theme pervaded the precincts with but one exception: each cabin was outfitted with a lap-top with a high-speed Internet connection.
I wondered what sort of Left-wing websites were likely to be linked as “favorites” on the computer in my cabin. The Daily Kos? Maybe just Slate? Well, no. There were only two: National Review Online and — hold your Adirondack chair! — John Rosenberg’s “Discriminations.”
Yes, friends, one of our stealth ops had clearly penetrated the place before me and had left a message that only I could decode: “Fear not. Though you rest tonight in the wilderness surrounded by diversiphiles who would like to tolerate you to the cold blue bottom of Blue Mountain Lake, you are not really alone.”
Ah, we are everywhere….
