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By aphrael (Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 10:07:06 AM EST) (all tags)

So, when I got to class last night, about 20 minutes before class time, the classroom was full of people who weren't my class. This is a little bit odd; there's no class immediately preceding mine in that classroom.

Milling about with my classmates waiting for the room to vacate, I saw a sign: there was a seminar going on in the classroom about the downside to diversity, and how diversity has gone too far and had unintended consequences.

(I disagree, but, hey, i'm not going to barge in and start a fight, now, am I?)

When the seminar cleared and people began streaming out, we went in. Strewn across the front of the classroom was a giant banner for the sponsoring club.

It was the Federalist Society, of course.

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Was it mainly a pretext for discussing by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 10:37:32 AM EST

the nature of Islam in a circuitous fashion?

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This is America! by ucblockhead (4.00 / 3) #2 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 01:57:50 PM EST

More likely it was a pretext for discussing how those uppity Mexicans are preventing Americans from picking tomatoes for $2/hr.
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: dunno by aphrael (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 01:59:28 PM EST

i didnt go into the classroom until after the discussion was over and they were packing up their crap.

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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Without knowing anything about what they're saying by AmericanVirgo (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:56:31 PM EST

I'll agree with the premise. Diversity does have downsides. There are always trade offs to everything in life and diversity is not exempt from that. For example, take immigration. Homogeneity in a nation is an advantage. There is greater trust between people and less social friction. In Sweden the homogeneous population allowed the state to establish broad social services with a minimal number of people opting to leech off of them. Immigration inevitably causes friction. Immigrants don't have cultural assumptions of the natives, they don't have the same commitments to certain values.

A breakdown in society like this leads to people perceiving that they have less interest in the common good and then trying to take advantage of government programs. Now, overall this may very well be balanced by the upsides of immigration, but that doesn't mean there aren't real downsides here. In Sweden the government can't be as nice as it used to be. Immigration has led to the problems I listed.

Why do you hate federalism? by cam (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 03:36:30 PM EST

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

Prosecution by Insinuation by Horatio Hellpop (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 05:13:03 PM EST

You do understand that this practice won't cut it after the Bar exam, right?

"You can't really know something until you ruin it for everyone." -some guy who used to have an account here

and where is the latest OP: Back to School by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #8 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 07:15:00 PM EST

update? magamba doesn't always cut it for reliving my collegiate years.

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: A Special Georgeha Update: by Horatio Hellpop (4.00 / 1) #9 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 07:56:25 PM EST

When I speak, the women swoon. No joke.
"You can't really know something until you ruin it for everyone." -some guy who used to have an account here
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You know what your mom saw coming? by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 05:52:39 PM EST

I kid, I kid.

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