The kind of "diversity" progressives despise.

Progressives talk a great deal about the value of "diversity," so much so that when they get into academia, they enact policies with absurd consequences, as Heather Mac Donald describes in a recent essay.

Yet progressives clearly despise a kind of "diversity" which doesn't want to play along with their utopian fantasies: Self-reliant people, entrepreneurs, people who prefer their own company, loners, rugged individualists. I display some of the characteristics of those people myself, and I identify with them to large extent. (That probably accounts for my liking of H. Beam Piper's stories with his theme of the Self-Reliant Man.)

Yet progressives tend to frame us as bad people because we lack a sense of "empathy" and "community," we live "selfishly" and so forth. In reality they complain about us because we don't fit their view of human nature, and we present opposition to their political agenda. For example, when a progressive says "empathy," he really means something like "paying higher taxes." Individuals who can think of better uses for their own money and vote accordingly therefore seem "narcissistic" or "sociopathic" to progressives, especially if we also mention that we've read Ayn Rand's novels and like some of things she says.

This sheds light on what progressives really mean by "diversity": They mean a diversity of physical characteristics like skin color, but they don't mean a diversity of human minds (which probably also accounts for their IQ denialism). The sorts of human minds which shrug off progressive values which make no sense to them don't deserve special consideration in the progressive world view.