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By: Neal Boortz | Published on 11/28/07    

More diversity nonsense from Denver, Colorado. Now before we go any further, a reminder of just what this whole diversity thing is all about. Diversity education can take on basically two forms. One form is anti-individualism. If you've been listening to my show, reading my notes or just paying attention to what is going on around you, you will know that the left is waging a full-scale war against individualism.

Individual rights ... bad. Collective rights ... good. Individual achievement ... bad. Collective achievement ... good. When diversity is the issue you are categorizing and judging people not by their individuality, but by their group identity.

The other form of diversity education is the selling of the idea that white guys are bad, everybody else is good. That would seem to be the case in Denver.

Denver is forcing all of its employees to watch a diversity training video. That should be enough to infuriate you. But some people in Denver are saying that it does what we typically see these "diversity" workshops do ... portray white people as inherently racist simply because they are white.

This video Denver city employees are being forced to watch is called Laughing Matters - Think About It. (watch a little preview here) I would like to think that the video was really produced as a comedy piece, but too many people are taking it seriously. So here we have the city of Denver requiring all of its employees to watch this piece of "white men are bad dudes." Not good, but pretty much what you would expect.

Now ... imagine if the person being insulted in the video was black or Muslim ... Oh no, that would be racist to portray a minority that way. All minorities, remember, are worthy of praise. White folks aren't. Besides, that would be racial profiling, wouldn't it? There is only one race that cannot be profiled. Care to guess which one?

There are more parts to this video and the three-hour facilitated discussion that we are not seeing. But don't worry ... when someone pointed out the ridiculousness of showing the video, the city said that it plans to update it in 2008 or 2009. Now that's decisive action! Wait 'till next year!

And of course, where would a city be without a diversity manager. In Denver, the diversity manager (the person in charge of group identities) is a woman; Susan Maxfield. Susan's advisory committee along with the city's television station concocted this little beauty. It even won an award for second place in 2005 for Instruction/Training from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors.

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