Tsongas brings diversity to House delegation by beating Ogonowski
By Glen Johnson, AP Political Writer | October 17, 2007
LOWELL, Mass. –Standing with the three daughters Paul Tsongas once feared would not remember him, Niki Tsongas claimed victory in her first run for elective office, bringing diversity to the Massachusetts congressional delegation for the first time in nearly 25 years.
Diversity? Her worldview is in lock step with the other members of the Massachusetts delegation. She will vote with them 100% of the time. Her priorities will be the same as the rest of the delegation. She is a 100% carbon copy of every other representative we send to Congress.
This is the same misguided thinking about “diversity” that has so damaged MSM newsrooms and college campuses. They are obsessed with superficial diversity, which is different genders, different nationalities, different skin color, etc.
True diversity, of thought and opinion, is nowhere to be found in these institutions. Having 50% women, 50% men, 25% white, 25% black, 25% asian and 25% whatever is not true diversity if they all have the same view of the world. That is the opposite of diversity, it is a multi-cultural echo chamber.
Here is a great recent example, Newsweak magazine published a photo compilation of Rudy’s advisors in which five out of the six people were misidentified. Do you think if they had a conservative in the newsroom, maybe they would have been able to point out this glaring error? Instead, Newsweak and their “layers of editors” published this photo compilation in their esteemed magazine, leading Daniel Pipes, one of Rudy’s advisors to quip,
There are six pictures in all on the page and five of the six captions are wrong; only that of Robert Kasten is correct. Aggregating so many errors at once takes real talent – but count on Newsweek.
See the graph here.
Echo chamber diversity is not only much easier and far more comfortable than true intellectual diversity, it is meaningless.