WALSH: Diversity Is Not Our Strength

Yesterday I wrote about a racist screed in The New York Times lamenting the fact that white people live in New Hampshire. Our self-appointed social engineers have set out to dilute the general whiteness of New England, just as they’ve tried to do everywhere else in society, and the result will likely be as disastrous in this case as it has been in every other.

There is nothing wrong with organic diversity. If a city, a state, a school, an institution, etc., becomes more racially diverse over time, naturally, then there is no reason to complain. I still would not call this diversity an objective improvement, because there was nothing objectively wrong with the racial homogeneity that existed before it. People are people. If a bunch of white people live in some mountain town in New Hampshire, that’s fine. If white people and black people live in the town, that’s fine, too. Races are not commodities. You cannot have “too much” or “too little” of one kind.