As a very wise woman said, “Diversity . . . like anything worth having . . . requires effort. Effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity . . . and to accept unconditionally the same in others.”
From whose mouth did this wishy-washy, feel-touchy liberal hogwash originate? Was it Hillary Clinton? Jeremy Corbyn? Al Franken? It was not. These words were spoken by the late Barbara Bush, in her commencement address at Wellesley College in 1990. Mrs Bush, wife of the 41st US president George HW, died last week aged 92.
If nothing else, that these sentences were delivered by the wife and a mother of two former Republican presidents seems a good barometer of the distance the culture wars have covered since.