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This is not a surprise to me insofar as stressing, promoting and aggrandizing peoples' differences based on cultural heritage, racial makeup, and class distinction while simultaneously encouraging/mandating the sorted blending of people based on these distinctions and in parallel promote special interest/special treatment policies that favor one group over another can only be divisive.

'Identify and treat others differently according to their differences.'

or more politically correct

'Identify and treat others differently according to their differences so that their diversity is respected.'

With mottos like 'tolerance and diversity' why can't everyone find 'common ground' and have a dialectic, - I mean 'dialogue?'

"It would be unfortunate if a politically correct progressivism were to deny the reality of the challenge to social solidarity posed by diversity," he writes in the new report. "It would be equally unfortunate if an ahistorical and ethnocentric conservatism were to deny that addressing that challenge is both feasible and desirable." Sounds like we're being groomed for a marxist revolution. Considering everyone is equally dissatisfied with the status quo, we're almost there.

'Social solidarity' seems a suspect goal when civic disenchantment is the problem. Pandering to special interests to try to cause this 'solidarity' is a fallacy and the cause both directly and indirectly of the lamented outcomes.