An idea that I've been kicking around in my head and in conversations for a while now is the idea of diversity. Clearly, in a country with as many different people groups as the US, diversity is a good thing. It's good to have children's books with diverse characters. It's good to have many kinds of people in positions of power. It's good for everyone to see people similar to them represented in media.
However, the majority of the Democratic party seems to have decided that diversity is not just a good thing, but rather that it is the good thing. The highest ideal of the mainstream Left appears to be diversity.
I said in my last post that all people are created in the image of God and deserve respect as image-bearers of God. Justice, respect, and full participation in personhood for all people is the goal we should be aiming for. And diversity on its own doesn't accomplish that. If anyone is making diversity their highest goal, they are falling far short of justice.
Follow my logic: if diversity is the highest goal, a company with a black, female CEO and non-white people as 60% of their labor force is a paragon of virtue, even if they pay low enough wages that full-time front-line workers qualify for food stamps. If justice is the highest goal, it's clear that company is failing miserably.
I am certainly not saying diversity is irrelevant. And I would be horrified to have my words used to justify ignoring the topics of inclusion and marginalization. However, excellent representation of minority business owners at the top of a morally bankrupt system that further enriches the wealthy at the expense of the poor is a meager kind of progress.
We can do better.
And justice for all.
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