Conservative Student News

In parking lot H of UST’s north campus, there sits a car so unique it could capture your attention from a mile away. Do not be mistaken though, it is not the make or model of this car that catches your eye, but the color—or maybe more accurately: colors.

From top to bottom and around both sides, stickers of ever shape, size, & shade are plastered to this vehicle’s back end. At first glance your mind registers only the sheer volume of rectangular adhesives present, but upon closer inspection you become very well acquainted with the witty quips on each individual bumper sticker. As you stare at these pieces of vehicular dialogue, you may begin to feel an overwhelming desire to applaud…or lash out irrationally.

Simply stated, this distinctive vehicle is a conservative-mobile of obsessive proportions. Among its many opinionated messages is a directive to “Annoy a Liberal,” as well as the sentiment “If you object to logging try using plastic toilet paper.” I for one love this car, but I also am admittedly biased considering that I am the proud owner. In a way, I am a bumper sticker connoisseur—always searching for a newer, bolder, more controversial statement to add to my collection.

So it is with this in mind that the new column, “Vehicular Dialogue,” has been added to the St. Thomas Standard. In each issue of St. Thomas’ conservative newspaper, you will find a tribute to (or rebuke of) the “Sticker of the Month.” Any sticker that contains special wit, wisdom, or just plain stupidity is up for grabs; but be prepared, my editorial comments are not “PC,” for I live up to what my car’s bumper says: “politically incorrect…and proud of it!”

In honor of this issue’s Sticker of the Month, please enjoy:

Screw Diversity, Celebrate Excellence!

As a conservative college student in the 21st century, I have come to loathe the word “diversity.” It is a term that drips with ambiguous liberal connotation.

Nowadays, “diversity” is thrown into lectures, political speeches, and conversation as if it were a miracle cure for anything and everything that ails our society. According to the proponents of this very dubious word, world peace could be achieved & global hunger could be eliminated, if only people would just be nicer to gays and Muslims.

But I don’t buy it! “Diversity,” as liberals define it, is nothing more than a cop-out and a distraction from things that actually matter. In the mind of a liberal, “diversity” says, “celebrate MY differences—everyone else is stupid!” In all actuality though, this form of “diversity” is just a new backwards version of the racism & sexism that liberals are trying to avoid.

This kind of “diversity” encourages people to judge others based solely on their ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference without first giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their personality, philosophy, or abilities.

As my hero, Ann Coulter, said in a speech at the University of Connecticut, “Tolerance & diversity are the Left’s two favorite words—they flaunt them like precious jewels that only they can own whenever they believe it will serve their purpose—but they refuse to apply them universally. Liberals extend tolerance only to those they agree with and diversity is never applicable with respect to ideology.”

Genuine diversity is the diversity of ideas, but liberals refuse to acknowledge this as a legitimate definition. They want to give special perks and attention only to those whose differences are noticeable in a photograph (preferably one that is suitable for their website, brochure, or political literature). But in America, where “all men are created equal,” it is unacceptable to give supremacy to someone simply because they are not the detested straight, white male.

“Diversity,” as Webster defines it, is simply: “The fact or quality of being different.” So, with this definition in mind, I will encourage liberals to go ahead and embrace diversity—conservatives are people too!