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Mark Steyn: Liberals ‘conformity enforcers,’ ‘stupefyingly intolerant’ [VIDEO]

David Martosko Executive Editor
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“‘Celebrate diversity’ — the great bumper sticker — actually means ‘celebrate stultifying homogeneity,'” Canadian best-selling author and columnist Mark Steyn told The Daily Caller.

In an exclusive interview this week with TheDC’s Ginni Thomas, Steyn railed against liberal “diversity”-speak and the lack of tolerance for traditional values.

“As you know, if you go to the average American newsroom you can have diversity of race, diversity of gender, diversity of orientation — everything except the only diversity that matters, which is diversity of thought,” he said. “And the left does not want to celebrate diversity of thought. They rage against so-called intolerance, yet they themselves are stupefyingly intolerant.”

“They are conformity enforcers,” he explained,” but they’ve co-opted all the light, fluffy, happy, smiley-faced buzzwords.”

“That’s the classic trick taught to us by Orwell explicitly in ‘1984.’ People of a conservative disposition read that book and think he’s warning of a dystopian future. People of the left read it and use it as a manual.”

The rest of Mark Steyn’s interview will be online Monday morning, only at The Daily Caller.

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