Someone told me they saw people on Facebook complaining that the Olympics opening ceremony was too diverse. I was like, did they want to have an Olympics with all other countries banned?? That already exists, and it's called national championships. Otherwise, a sports competition that includes the entire world is going to include people from the entire world. I don't understand what they wanted...an Olympics in Paris with only White USA??
Hillbillies don't watch the Olympics.
- No monster trucks
- No bud light
- No tailgaters
- Loud cars missing
- Very few tough-guy sports.
Like, sure, we need to move the fencing to a chariot race, and make jousting and full contact gladiatorial combat a thing. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
Then we'll get the hicks watching. Just dont call it SCA as that's a nerd thing.
I understand that the Olympics is very diverse and that's fantastic. But for people who think diversity isn't our strength, would watching the Olympics really challenge that idea for them? In other words, would they actually think that the Olympics being diverse makes the Olympics "stronger"?
I think this tweet is missing the fact that these people would prefer the Olympics if it wasn't diverse, and it would be better in their eyes if it wasn't. In their eyes, its strength doesn't come from diversity.
I can see someone making some dumbass argument like "oh yeah if diversity is our strength why are all the runners black?" or something like that. Racists aren't squirming in their seats while watching the Olympics like this tweet suggests, even if I wish they were.
In the same way that Woke, DEI, CRT, PC, and so on are just a drop in replacement for the n-word (and sometimes gay slurs), this is just a very stupid fearful person saying they didn't like seeing black people on TV. There is no further analysis going on.
They have no interest or even awareness of the skill on display. you could replace it with anything else and as long as they could complain about it with their coworkers they would barely even notice.
It's an evolutionary model that I think requires complex numbers.
Except the vast majority of people who use "diversity is our strength" as a slogan are focused on superficial "diversity", while ironically still demanding all remain in ideological lockstep; no diversity of that kind tolerated within the 'in-group', that's for sure, lol.
There's much more true, pragmatically 'useful' diversity in, for example, a group of ten white males whose values and views cross the political etc. spectrums, than in a group of ten people of all different races, half male half female, who all have the exact same political views and values as each other.
The Olympics is about 'blindly' rewarding the best of the best, regardless of those superficial characteristics, so the "diversity is our strength" ideologues don't get to 'claim' it, its premise directly contradicts those people's values--they'd rather a job position be filled by someone who meets a sex or race quota, than simply hiring whoever is best for the job, etc.
