Dr James Allan – The Daily Sceptic March 18, 2026
‘Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure, those spouting these ‘diversity is a panacea’ nostrums never cash out the claim. They never tell us precisely how ‘diversity’ is making society better or wealthier or more unified. We are all just supposed to take it on faith, as it were. We’re just to believe the bureaucratic, political and various professional bodies’ elites who push this line, and believe it simply because they are the ones telling us it’s so.
But you and I both know there isn’t a lot of evidence to support this cliché. Worse, if you’re like me you’re thinking that these are the same elites who massively failed us by imposing thuggish, illiberal lockdowns that weaponised the police, closed schools, infringed all sorts of free speech criticisms and also transferred huge wealth from poor to rich and from young to old (think asset inflation after steroidal money printing and unchecked government spending). You’re remembering these are the same elites who likewise failed us by not being willing to stand up to a transgender lunacy lobby that makes those with IQs over 130 unable to say what a woman is. The same elites, too, who failed us by abandoning all scepticism and critical thinking around our changing weather, willingly impoverishing us in the patent untruth that renewables are cheaper all-up. Like me you’re wondering what the odds are that these same people are likely to be right about anything. Hint: Not bloody high. And certainly not very high that they are right about some motherhood-type slogan meant to silence debate about large-scale immigration and about their efforts to take merit out of any and all hiring and ‘who gets into university’ decisions. This looks a lot like one of those Mark Twain situations of being quietly coerced to ‘believe what you know ain’t so’.
But let’s resist the temptation to mock this cliché that ‘diversity is our strength’ and consider it a bit more carefully. We all know, for instance, that a bit of genetic diversity in parents is better for the offspring of that match. All things considered we’d prefer to avoid siblings or even first cousins mating. Not for most people the inbreeding of some of the former European royal families, where disappearing chins was the norm. Yet the amount of genetic diversity needed to produce healthy kids is pretty tiny. Just anyone outside the immediate family will do. Same culture? Tick. Same commitment to Western civilisation? Tick. Same belief in free speech and the role of women? Tick again. Just don’t sleep with your sister. So if that’s what was meant by all the propaganda on behalf of the joys of diversity, I think we could all get on board. (Well, I hesitate to speak for Tasmanians, those hailing from Arkansas, or any readers from the Catlins south of Dunedin in New Zealand, but readers get the general point.)
On the other side of the equation we know that the best fighting units are often drawn from the same geographical area. Just look at how the British army used to recruit soldiers. Closer bonds mean a greater willingness to put your life on the line for someone else. Or ask yourself whether you believe hiring ‘in the name of diversity’ has lowered physical standards when it comes to combat troops, firefighters going in to rescue people in burning homes or cops on the beat. It sure seems to be the case that whenever physical strength is a core component of the job, advocates of hiring women start by promising that not a single standard will be lowered but we end up with – you guessed it – lower standards for women. Is that really a strength? Who do you want carrying you out of a burning house or getting into a fight on the street with the thug attacking you? (By the way, the biggest lie told by Hollywood in its movies is that some 55 kilo woman can beat up a 90 kilo robber or rapist. It’s a complete lie.)
It gets worse because the whole ‘diversity’ (often thrown in with ‘equity’ and ‘inclusion’) edifice is chock full of contradictions. We are sold the idea that proponents of diversity welcome everyone into their fold. It matters not what you bring to the table. But if you doubt the worth of diversity itself? You are out. Just look at the huge push for ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ in universities. You know which people have disappeared from our universities? Conservatives. The people who are sceptical about this anti-merit, ‘equality of outcome’ worldview. They aren’t hired. Promotions are harder. The data on this are astounding. A recent report looking at the political donations and survey answers to academics’ political views reported that there was not a single Trump Republican academic working at Yale. Not one! And remember the Voice campaign here? We have some 38 law schools. There were four legal academics in the entire country who publicly opposed the Voice and myriad numbers in favour.
Diversity always and everywhere boils down to a diversity of skin pigmentation or type of reproductive organs, or other favoured inherited group characteristic. But it never, ever involves pushing for a diversity of political or worldview opinions. And if you are opposed to, say, any affirmative action type programmes for women, Aborigines, non-heterosexuals, anyone thinking he was born in the wrong body (an incoherent claim, by the way), well, you are not welcome. Full stop. And the facts in terms of who is employed and gets to the top show that to be blatantly true.
When some people now claim that working class white boys are the most discriminated-against group, that sure looks true to me if we’re talking about who gets special scholarships, who gets special support, who gets quiet, unspoken hiring help. Hint: Australian unis don’t have explicit quotas. Nope. Rather they look at a dean’s department, measure the percentage of favoured – only favoured – groups in society at large and then in the department, and then make the dean’s performance review’s success depend on getting a match. The incentives are brutal but indirect. And all of this existed and got worse under nine years of Coalition governments. It’s hard to claim with a straight face that the Libs ever fight for anything, take on any vested interests, or repeal any disliked statutes. Hence, mes amis, the rise of One Nation.
That is the truth of the matter. Diversity divas are divisive. They shun and exclude non-believers in the name of the insipid faith they are proselytising. Deep down they don’t believe in merit (save, ironically, their own because those imposing implicit quotas all, remarkably, believe that they themselves got their on merit). This whole diversity (and equity and inclusion) mantra is a disaster.
Dr James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. This article was first published in Spectator Australia.
‘What is he hiding?’ – Starmer dodges Mandelson-Epstein spy ring questions four times in Commons
Story by Aaron Newbury • 1
© House of Commons
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hiding the truth after refusing to answer questions about appointing his friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador.
Tory MP Andrew Snowden said the Prime Minister delivered “pre-scripted nonsense that bares no resemblance to the question actually asked” and fumed “what is he scared of, what is he hiding?” During a showdown with MPs today, Sir Keir refused to answer questions on the appointment of senior mossad operative Lord Peter Mandelson on more than four occasions, sparking fury from parliamentarians.
The fact is all these jews are appointed by Rothschild, they work for him not us.
Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart said the Prime Minister’s silence “speaks volumes” and accused him of either failing to ask basic questions about Mandelson’s relationship with convicted paedophiles – or asking and ignoring the answers.
> Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly.
Are they still pushing that? I haven’t heard it in a long time. I thought they’d switched it for “migration”. Whoever you are, whatever you “believe”, “migration” of people who aren’t like you, who despise you, and who greatly outnumber you, spells your doom. Like a pond washed away in a flood. But christians are obsessed with death and want to drag everyone else along with them.
In diversity is (((our))) strength
RACIST ATTACK ON TEACHERS VIEWS
PE teacher sacked for saying ‘send the navy’ to stop small boats entering UK
which is what everyone in the UK says
Story by Luke Alsford • 13h •
PE teacher sacked for saying ‘send the navy’ to stop small boats entering UK
Story by Luke Alsford • 13h • included the remarks ‘just get rid of the lot of them, if they hate this country so much they should f*** off’,
fair enough comment
in response to a post which said ‘… we have imported many more who hate the country. The only way we survive is through patriotism and understanding our history’.
A hard left Teaching Regulation Authority panel found him guilty of unacceptable conduct after a hearing which ended last month.
He has now been banned from teaching after a review, which said the UK must welcome foreign migrants
Diversity is BS. It is death at all levels. Strength is found in finding the best people (talent) for the job, period. Diversity is a Marxist tactic used to destroy.
Superb, beautiful writing. The truth is our strength, and this is it, in spades!
Diversh!tty is our stench is more like it.
NYK Brah. 🤣
Absolutely brilliant article!
Divershitty was implemented and imposed on all White nations by demonic kikes, not the elite. The smelly evil jews.
Australia’s population has grown from around 10 million in 1960 to some 28 million now.
New Zealand’s population has grown from around 2.4 million in 1960 to some 5.3 million now.
Canada’s population has grown from around 18 million in 1960 to some 41 million now.
The UK’s population has grown from around 52 million in 1960 to some 70 million now.
The US population has grown from around 179 million in 1960 to some 349 million now.
Has anyone asked if it is necessary in all of these highly materialistic and so-called “consumer societies” that there be population growth in order for there to be “economic growth”, or that we at least have to sustain our populations and the demographic balance to sustain our economies?
In 1960 the population of Australia was over 90% Caucasian with the people mostly of UK and Irish origins, mostly due to the “White Australia Policy”. In 2026 the number of people of European descent (Caucasians) is now just over 57% of the population. After 1960 Australia opened its doors to more Whites from other places than the British Isles but for “growth” that was not enough to keep up with the rest of the
In 1960 the population of Canada was over 97% European descent. In 2026 the number of people of European descent (Caucasians) is now just over 52% of the population.
You can do the same type of comparison for every nation which had predominantly “White” populations.
Applying the wisdom of the adage that “the rich get richer and the poor get children”, the main reason that White people do not sustain their numbers is most likely to be found in that adage. The White people were more generally much more affluent than the immigrants from other nations, which the business class “needed” to fuel “economic growth”, and, of course we all wanted economic growth. However, what happened is that the most materialistic and affluent people despite their race or religion had fewer and fewer children and simply could not even sustain their own numbers. That is the trend all over the world.
The solution of the Western Controllers appears to have been motivated by a sense of “population peril” with their solution being to kill human reproduction in any way they could. Being blind to the effects of economic affluence in which a kind of materialistic “quality” and the main purpose of this life is to have a good time and to enjoy all of the toys, they did not see that trend as a natural form of birth control, and something which unless checked by something else tended to wipe out entire civilizations in the past. And so beginning around 1960, the Controllers (our great White ownership class) put their population-reduction propaganda and polices on steroids though things like the pill, free sex, etc. etc., and guess what happened? It was the affluent people in the West who threw away their family values and their religions and drank all of the Kool Aid.
Good points he makes, though I wonder if there are any readers here who were not aware of these things before reading.
I find myself immensely jealous of the Iranian crowds’ homogenity and sense of a common past, present, and future.
One of the ideas behind the concept of Diversity was simply a reflection of a shrinking world. Diversity was never about replacing Affirmative Action programs with a new word to describe race or ethnicity-based quotas. The fact is that with technology, increased use of faster international flight, internet and instant communications the world is shrinking. With that shrinkage comes the increased interactions of the worlds populations and the natural effect of mingling different cultures. I taught a class to employees of US DoD all over the world for decades called Understanding Diversity, and it was an incredibly important concept in that work environment. Due to the size and scope of The US Empire…every US Military installation is a sea of diversity. Airmen, Sailors and Soldiers marry into many of these cultures and then their spouses become employed on those same installations. So a Military base in Germany would have a lot of German employees, but also have Japanese, Philippine, Korean and other ethnicities employed on base. If you wanted to be productive as a supervisor or manager…you had to be educated at guiding and directing a number of people from different cultures. You had to come to understand their culture and treat them with respect if you wanted an efficient, productive team. I came to learn this when I was working in Japan, as a young 30 year old, and the realization of my own failure taught me the importance of understanding other’s culture. I had one older Japanese man who worked for me, and each week we would have staff meetings to review the last week and plan for the next week. For a year I would sit with this man and others who worked for me…and every time I would say something to the man he would nod and tell me yes. But then we would move to the next week and the man wouldn’t do anything we had talked about. I tried everything I could think of to spur the man’s appropriate conduct…and he would always tell me “Yes”…but never follow through. After a year of this I finally asked one of my younger Japanese employees about the situtation, and I will never forget the response. I asked a man named Itabashi about the older man’s behavior…and Itabashi told me…”Bob, Ohno doesn’t understand a word you say!”. I was flabbergasted…as every time I spoke with Ohno he would tell me “yes, yes, yes”! I asked Itabashi….why does he tell me yes, if he doesn’t understand? Itabashi told me that in Japanese culture it is considered rude to tell a boss that you don’t understand, as it would imply that the boss failed to explain it properly…and that no one in Japanes culture…especially an older man…would ever do that to his boss! I’ll never forget realizing that the problem was not with Ohno, but with me! From that point on I had Itabashi translate my communications with Ohno, and the man’s performance jumped immediately! In another situation, while working in Bosnia I asked a teenager who worked for me if they would touch up a truck we had with the few cans of spray paint I found around camp. The kid said “yes”…and I let him start the work. I came back a few hours later and the truck looked terrible…with uneven paint and dribbles all over it. I was furious, as it wasn’t easy finding that spray paint…and I started to speak with the kid. Before I could make an idiot of myself, one of my female supervisors came over and said…”Bob…that kid has never seen spray paint in his life, we don’t have spray paint in Bosnia…and he did the best he could”. Once again I realized that it was my failure to understand their culture…and that I was the cause of the failure. I became very good at understanding this type of scenarios…and it helped me build a solid career with US DoD. It is a shame that these race-hustlers have destroyed the natural, appropriate use of the word diversity… and simply turned it into a non-merit-based form of Affirmative Action, because the world is shrinking…and the more prepared you are to go out into that world the more successful you will be.
Even really stupid people are starting to clue in: Fake-jew “diversity” is white heritage theft and genocide, shitter are merely the tools.
Diversity is not merely our strength; diversity is our GREATEST strength. That’s what made Christopher Columbus so wonderful. He brought diversity to the Americas, the greatest possible blessing given freely to the Inca, the Aztecs, the tribes of the Amazon, the East Coast tribes of North America and all the other hundreds of tribes throughout the Western Hemisphere. It is a sad thing that only a few of those tribes remain today to sing the praises of the marvelous diversity which they would have experienced if their cultures had survived.
Thanks to FredB.
I took the following from Wikipedia, but I knew the general attitude after visiting Sweden before Palme, who followed Tage Erlender as Prime Minister pushed through multiculturalism:
“Erlander defended the program by arguing that American racial tensions and segregation didn’t exist in and couldn’t be reproduced in Sweden. Erlander stated, “We Swedes live in an infinitely more fortunate situation. The population of our country is homogeneous, not only in regard to race, but also in many other aspects.”
This was in reference to his Million Programme, his massive housing project. Swedish immigration intake had been very limited for decades.
We’re all Sweden now.
Simple:
Diversity is a(currently) bloodless invasion of foreigh forces via Cultural Marxism strategy.
Those allowed in never really if ever assimilate , which is why they were allowed in en masse.
Like Feminism destroyed the family structture and actually enslaved women to become lonely and bitter, this “Diversity” is a corrosive cancer upon soverign nations and cultures.
A targetted nation ultimately becomes balkanized into ethnic fiefdoms which politicians nurture, encourage and exploit for block voting.
Divershitty?
Diversity is antinatural.
From the beginning of mankind, people with different or incompatible mindset have separated like oil and water, and banded together with similars, oil with oil, and water with water.
Each one needs his own realm.
“diversity is OUR strength”
Means THEIR strength. Over YOU.
“Same belief in free speech and the role of women?”
NO NO AND NO TAKE YOUR FEMINISM SHIT AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS .
PATRIARCHY IS THE ORDER CREATED BY GOD.
RESPECT THE NATURAL ORDER CREATED BY GOD.