The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
Written by Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by Heather Mac Donald and Pam Ward
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This program includes an introduction read by the author.
By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning.
America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting grammar and spelling, or employers hiring by merit? Racist and sexist. Students emerge into the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics is the American experience. Speech that challenges these campus orthodoxies is silenced with brute force.
The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia. Diversity commissars denounce meritocratic standards as discriminatory, enforce hiring quotas, and teach students and adults alike to think of themselves as perpetual victims. From #MeToo mania that blurs flirtations with criminal acts, to implicit bias and diversity compliance training that sees racism in every interaction, Heather Mac Donald argues that we are creating a nation of narrowed minds, primed for grievance, and that we are putting our competitive edge at risk.
But there is hope in the works of authors, composers, and artists who have long inspired the best in us. Compiling the author’s decades of research and writing on the subject, The Diversity Delusion calls for a return to the classical liberal pursuits of open-minded inquiry and expression, by which everyone can discover a common humanity.
Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. She received the 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. Her writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Partisan Review, among others. She lives in New York.
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Reviews for The Diversity Delusion
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A lot of shouting and lazy in balancing evidence. Would have welcomed more substance or intellectual argument.
9 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author backs-up her controversial points and refrains from political sniping outside the scope of her subtitle. Admittedly, I have confirmation bias favoring her findings, but she appears to cover her bases well. The book effectively argues that our cultural diversity mongering is not well supported by evidence.
4 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an eye opener to the abandonment of cultural solidarity, for suicidal diversified-nano-microscopic orgies of endless victim-whoring. The weak... finally, get to inherit the earth.
3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great! This should be required reading for all high school seniors
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A white woman tries to tell people of different races there is no such thing as endemic racism. She seems to think if she doesn’t experience racism herself, then racism doesn’t exist in the US. It’s white privilege at its most flagrant. She is blind to the suffering of and discrimination against minorities and
those women who have experienced sexual assault, a huge number. She also tries to tell women who have been sexually assaulted that it’s no big deal and that they are mistaking men’s harmless flirtation for assault. It’s horrific that such racism and misogyny exists let alone that she tries to make money off this hate speech. If she hates and disagrees with feminism so much, she should stop using every hard fought advantage that feminism and women’s suffrage have given us. She should no longer be allowed to vote, own property, manage her own finances, and she should obey every order of her husband or father. She should also stay at home and keep house instead of writing books for money to support herself. If she is not willing to give up the advantages feminism has brought her, then she is a hypocrite. She should also try living as a minority in the US. Once she has walked in the shoes of those who are oppressed and discriminated against, then she can open her mouth about racism and misogyny. Until then, she is a hypocritical, hate filled racist and is betraying her gender while throwing women who have been sexually assaulted under the bus and laughing at their pain and the lack of justice all these groups receive. Do not give money to someone who spews this kind of vitriol.15 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is sad that the other reviewer missed the point so completely. She must have been in a hurry to get her outrage out on paper. There is no such thing as endemic racism and the maths and science backs this position up. Outrage won't change this. This is a good walkthrough of the facts and very much worth your time.
14 people found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As an school counselor that recently departed the school system I couldn’t more relate to this book than any other.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing!!! Must read by everyone that loves this country before it’s too late. I already offered 6 people that I know to buy them this book and will continue to spread awareness. This is coming from an immigrant born in Jerez Zacatecas Mexico.
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