I think you're right Bruce. I've recently been reading Habermas's, "The New
Conservatism" along with some other studies of conservative and
neo-conservative literature. He points out, as Adorno does in "The Jargon
of Authenticity", that it's traditionally a _conservative_ political social
strategy: pluralism, that is. I'm quite suspicious of its classificatory
overtones. The slogan "Harmony in diversity" can be traced to the turn of
the century in Western Europe, especially in Germany.
Push a system hard in any one directin and I think its likely to spring
back with a vengeance. To me, the "diversity" sloganisms seem to have
overtones of repression built in. They are usually trumpeted the loudest by
dominant and privileged social classes.
Phil
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