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> How can anyone read things like what Marc or this author wrote and still believe diversity is good, or any any way a strength?

Personally, it's because I see strong historical evidence that diversity is good and a diverse population is more fair, stronger and more resilient in the long term.

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Essentially every bloody conflict in history is caused because different people are placed too close to each other. Only the rare empires manage to buck that trend and go far away from the homeland to conquest and kill.

Very nearly all wars are caused by economic/resource considerations. Xenophobia is used to get the citizenry to go along with it, but it is not usually the root cause.

The counterpoint is that more contact reduces prejudice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis

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