"Diversity" Bigots Get Their Mitts on the Pan-Am Games, Sideline "Non-Diverse" Sausage Seller

Sue-Ann Levy writes:

TORONTO - Scott Anders, of Scooters Catering, had hoped to be able to sell his hot dogs, gently smoked pulled pork and St. Louis style ribs at some of the venues during the 2015 Pan Am Games. 

Anders thought himself a perfect fit. 

After all, events like this are bread and butter for his Milton-based company. When I spoke to him earlier this week, he was just winding down from a busy summer operating his food trailer at the Honda Indy, the Live Nation tour at Ontario Place, as well as a variety of weekend festivals. 

But when he went online to the Pan Am website in the spring to register as a supplier with the games' database, he was shocked to see that he had to declare whether his is a diverse business. 

That meant reporting whether it is 51% owned and operated by females, visible minorities, Aboriginals, disabled people or by people who identify as LGBT. 

He also had to indicate whether his business actually has a "diversity certification."...

"A diversity certification": not even George Orwell, prescient as he was, could have predicted something as perverse as that. (The Perversity of "Diversity"--I think I may have come up with the title of my book.)