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The Outlawing of Diversity By Matthew Fox 9/30/2025 |
At the heart of ICE thuggery perpetrated by masked soldiers on our streets, at the heart of $150 billion in the new Republican budget dedicated to erecting concentration camps for immigrants, lies the issue of diversity. |
This war on diversity is not new in America; it is just a new nomenclature. When Chief Justice John Roberts started dismantling the hard-earned Voting Rights Act of 1965 fifteen years ago in Shelby v Holder, he was setting the stage for the anti-DEI fervor now |
Immigration activists speak up as ICE moves to Chicago, its next target city for wholesale roundups of immigrants and American citizens. WGN News. |
institutionalized in the present administration. As a spiritual theologian, I have to say, loud and clear, that Diversity Matters. There is a reason why many people, Dr. King included, were martyred trying to fight for their rights of equality and inclusion during the civil
rights battles of the 1950s and ’60s. Their sacrifices—including many teenagers spending time in jail for non-violent protest—brought us the hard-earned and blood-stained civil rights laws of 1965. Laws that SCOTUS, under the evil leadership of Roberts, has fought to dismantle and water down. SCOTUS, like Pontius Pilate, has washed its hands
of DEI while also refusing to address acts of gerrymandering. |
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| Diversity matters. In theological language, it’s the way God made us. And the rest of creation. Creation is very diverse. Diversity is who we are as a species. Diversity is a blessing, an original blessing, part of our “innate goodness” (Aaron Stern) and the “shower of blessings” (Rob Brezsny) that pours on us daily. Tribes also matter, and belonging to a tribe can be a wonderful and important thing. It gives |
us our language and cuisine and humor and hearth and at-one-ness and often our identity. And pride as a subculture. Whether one is Irish, African, Scandinavian, Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, or portions thereof, tribe is good—but Tribalism is not. Is the current war on
DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—any different from the Nazis’ insistence on a “pure” Aryan race? (Which, not incidentally, does not exist and never did.) Diversity is good, and learning from one another and interacting with one another is good. But tribalism is dangerous and destructive. Part of wisdom is to know these
things. It is good to honor diversity and creation and difference! Otto Rank criticized Americans for confusing the line, “all men are created equal,” to mean “all men are created the same.” We are not all the same—differences abound! And that is a blessing, it is to our advantage that we can make ourselves at
home in a nation where differences exist in tribe and cultural background, in ethnicities and languages and stories. We have so much to learn from one another. And to teach one another, therefore. |
I can honor your African heritage and learn from it while not ignoring my own Irish and English, and Jewish roots at the same time. Curiosity is a plus and a blessing. There is so much to learn from one another and the multiple identities we carry within us, the multiple cultures manifesting and shining |
Eboo Patel, former interfaith adviser to President Obama and founder of Interfaith America, describes the role of faith in America today. Stand Together |
through us. I first learned these lessons at West High School in Madison, Wisconsin. I learned that not all people were Catholic like my family was. And life was more interesting that way. And we grew from our differences. And the values we shared in friendships went deeper than cultural
differences. Diversity vs. the attempt to thwart it is a creation issue. Thus, creation spirituality. Creation is diverse. Sexuality is diverse. Religions are diverse. Languages, ethnicities, colors, sexual preferences, and stories are diverse. “Vive la difference!” shout the French. Stop the war on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! |
Queries for Contemplation Do you agree with Otto Rank that “all men are created equal” does not mean that “all people are
created the same”? What follows from that? How is a war against diversity different or the same as the ideology of a pure and Aryan nation? Do you agree in celebrating the differences—”Vive la difference”? |
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