diversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It occurs to me that, were Orwell alive today, he might\u00a0easily have added a fourth declaration to his list:<\/p>\n
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Uniformity is diversity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
While, of course, diversity in skin color is important to many modern ideologues, and while diversity of genders and gender preferences\u00a0is celebrated and is regarded as absolutely non-negotiable (sexuality, sexual autonomy, and sexual expression being the holy trinity for many moderns), diversity in thought and ideas seems not only unimportant but quite repellent to them \u2014 especially, sometimes, at universities (where na\u00efve thinkers might have expected intellectual liberty to be treasured).<\/p>\n
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Conformity is variety!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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