Just when you think the folks on the left can't get any goofier, they go
and surpass themselves. If silliness were an Olympic event, these lunkheads
could be counted on to bring home the gold. The fool's gold, that is.
Actually, they could probably excel in the sprints, seeing as how
they're not weighed down with a whole lot of common sense. In case you
haven't gotten the word, the religious left, as I like to think of them, seeing
as how they live their lives by a certain dogma, have now determined that
poor people are terribly under-represented on America's college campuses.
It was, I suppose, only a matter of time. After all, if no institute of higher
education can justify its existence unless its student population is composed
of X-percent of women, Hispanics, blacks, gays and the physically
handicapped, some Democrat was bound to notice that there still remained
an untapped source of future votes; namely, poor, young whites.
Diversity in the student body is the catch phrase. But, as you may
have noticed, there is no parallel diversity along the faculties. In the
humanities departments of most American colleges, professors run the
gamut from liberal to radical. Given a choice between Ahmadinejad and a
Republican, a large majority would vote for the little schmuck in the
windbreaker.
Frankly, I see no reason to give preferential treatment to students for
no better reason than that their parents are poor. If a mix of humanity is
what they're really seeking, I say they should throw open the doors to idiots.
And, no, I'm not referring to those aforementioned professors in the liberal
arts who get paid a lot of money for doing nothing more than foisting their
half-baked politics on a bunch of highly impressionable 18-year-olds. No,
I'm talking about the genuine article -- people with subterranean I.Q.s.
I mean, if diversity is of such monumental importance, why limit it to
race, gender and national origin? Obviously, members of these groups have
far more in common with each other than they have with the intellectually-
challenged -- or whatever it is that the P.C. crowd is calling dumb people
this week.
Honestly, I haven't a clue why college would be a more exalting
experience just because the student in the next seat has different
pigmentation or hails from a country where indoor plumbing is optional.