2010s: Diversity Policing
February 3, 2020
By AHNZ
Our 2010s were characterised by a value called ‘diversity’. Especially in the later half of that historical time period, Victimhood Culture flared up to energy and mania not seen since the early 1990s or 1970s. What was this ‘diversity’ thing?
Shooting straight, diversity simply means what the English dictionary would say it was. In our lives, in our cultures, we benefit from having a rich mixture of ideas and options and flavours and choices. Rather than being a monoculture of specialist insects, our economies and communities are stronger and so more satisfying when populated by all sorts of different approaches and perspectives on all things. As VJM has recently pointed out, monocultures lead to Island Tameness and the vulnerability that leads to extinction.
However much the Victimhood Culture and State pay lip service to diversity and try to make it their own, they are in fact opposed to it. Anarchists are the ones who appreciate diversity and pluralism and multiculturalism in their proper and authentic sense. As a member of the media, the Fourth Estate, our celebrated international director of Marvel films, and others, Taika Waititi, has this to say about diversity in language…
“Taika Waititi has spoken out about diversity in New Zealand film saying it’s still an issue that “needs to be addressed” and that he sometimes feels like we’re “going backwards”.”
“People just flat-out refuse to pronounce Maori names properly..”- Taika Waititi: Diversity feels like it’s ‘going backwards’ in NZ; NewstalkZb
Because ‘diversity’ somehow also means we all have to have one homogeneous pronunciation of our words?
And, surprise, he knows which version it just has to be for all?
My own point of view is that we ought to celebrate and enjoy every accent and dialect and pronunciation, let them mix and compete as they will. There’s no need to feel threatened or ego-bruised because someone else says something their own way rather than yours.
As Iron Man said in the Avengers film, “You’re not the director of me,” Waititi.
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Ref. 2010s: New Zealand English Endangered?
Image ref. Island Tameness And New Zealand Society; VJM
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