Southern Methodist University professor Steve Denson has branded the Young Conservatives of Texas, a student-run campus organization with a presence at a number of schools in the state, as “the Junior League of the KKK.”

Why? Well, it appears that Professor Denson doesn’t like YCT’s positions on illegal immigration and the school’s use of racial preferences to set aside seats in the student senate for certain minority groups.

Interestingly, Professor Denson is also the Director of Diversity at SMU’s business school. I would assume that if Denson equates opposition to his preferred political views with sympathy for the KKK, he might not be terribly interested in promoting diversity of the intellectual variety. In fact, it sounds like if he had his way, the conservatives would be banned from campus altogether. After all, who wants to share a community with a bunch of Klansmen?

Denson seems to have two primary functions in his job as diversity enforcer:

1. To ensure that everybody looks different, and
2. To ensure that everybody thinks the same.

In other words, Denson’s job is to prevent diversity as much as it is to promote it.

He’s off to a good start.