There are some ideas so ludicrous and mischievous that only an academic would take them seriously. One of them is diversity. Think about it. Are you for or against diversity?
I gotta disagree, Diversity , both racial and intellectual has a certain value.
In the case of racial diversity the value is easy to understand and practical, disease resistance is greater in a diverse population. During the Irish Potato Famine the Irish were farming potato's all descendants of the same cuttings, all of Ireland was raising clones of the same potato, when a fungus that liked this potato learned to overcome the immune system of this potato it was like a burglar learning the combination to the bank vault and all of the vaults and safes in the country were the same. Massive crop failures were directly attributable to this lack of diversity.
Cheetas have this problem , Cheetas are all closely enough related to swap skin grafts with no danger of rejection , they are on borrowed time . The most convincing speculation I have seen is that Cheetas at one time were a widespread species but some sort of calamity destroyed almost all of them , now they are all the descendants of a small population and their lack of diversity is one of their main risks .
There is a region near Olduvai where there is an isolated population of Lions the land is productive in lion food but this small number of lions have inbred to the point that they are suffering disease from it, conservationists have attempted to introduce some "foreign" lions to relieve their inbreeding problem but lions habits do not accept strangers into the pride easily so the problem is not solved yet.
In a human population it would work the exact same way .If some disease were to attack a racially pure population , Hitlers ideal was a recipe for catastrophe with the potential for causing human extinction. One of the ways that Humans could cease to be is to loose all of our diversity .
Intellectual diversity speeds up thinking .
If you owned an hundred PC computers and had a tremendous number crunching problem, You could use just one of them and get it done after a long time, but you could not use all of them to speed up your work without some way of insuring that they each were working on a diffrent part of the problem. If you had an hundred operators or a interconnection system to spread the data among the PCs but started the problem at the same point on each of them ,the hundred would do the task at the same speed as one . To get them to do the task faster you would get the problem broken down into sections that could be distributed among the diffrent PCs and assemble the sub answers in one one hundredths the time (potentially) as allowing one to handle it all.
People can do this and in a natural condition of a human population there is a lot of diversity in experience , education and habit . The Human Race has a lot of problems and they are distributed so well that almost all and each of us have a diffrent set of problems as a subset of the set of problems problems facing our species. An effort to standardize the thinking of human beings works against this desireable natural diversity , as we naturally are, we all each work on our own problem and everytime a new solution is developed some others adopt it . Meme is the term for a repeatable learnable behavior , a natural population of human beings develops failing and succeeding memes in profusion and the natural success of the succeeding behaviors and failure of the failing behaviors and the spread by learning in preference of the successfull ones amounts to a huge amount of computing.
But what would it be like to standardize human thought among a large population? Make us all proper adherents of a single "ism" and we all try the same solutions in the same order , this would be the loss of a huge advantage that we enjoy hardly knowing that we do.
In the environment of a University these become practical considerations , less esoteric and uncontrollable than in the world at large.
Lots of people meet their mates in colledge so hybridization is a likely result of collecting a diverse population .
People gathered from several cultures into a university campus cross pollinate their thinking and their ways of thinking , students often learn as much from each other as they do from their Professors and they also after a while become the professors , so a diversity of assumption sets ,thinking experience and ways of thinking is an advantage that ought not be lost to the University setting whether because of Prejudice racially or PC cleansing of thinking "wrong".
