The Diversity Delusion
How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
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Narrated by:
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Pam Ward
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Heather Mac Donald - intro
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Written by:
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Heather Mac Donald
About this listen
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.
What the critics say
“I read every word Heather Mac Donald writes and always have. She is brilliant and has tons of guts and is an inspiration." - Peggy Noonan, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary
"Others besides Heather Mac Donald have indicted academia for devastating liberal education, but no one has ever documented the damage as Mac Donald does in The Diversity Delusion. It is crammed with facts and numbers that universities go to great lengths to hide. How she did it is a mystery, but The Diversity Delusion will be my master reference for anything I write on these topics." - Charles Murray, Emeritus Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
"Not since Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind has a book so thoroughly exposed the damage done to American institutions--particularly universities--by modern liberalism's glib commitment to 'diversity.' Mac Donald unveils today's true operating principle: that claims of social justice precede the diminishment of Western greatness--a greatness that has (and will continue to) benefit the former victims of Western bigotry. This book is a story of what happens when too much insecurity seeps into a great civilization." - Shelby Steele, author of Shame, White Guilt, and The Content of Our Character
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- ben kuzmich
- 2019-04-12
Peterson and Shapiro would be proud
Very interesting and informative. if you follow the intellectual dark web, then youll get a kick out of this.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-01-12
For everyone to know.
Loved this. as it points out just how prejudice the Social Justice people really are and the cowards they are hiding behind lies and deceit while profiting largely from it. Yes this book describes how, especially former elite universities, some surviving by reputation only, are suffering and how they through racism say everyone else is racist. This is the declining of Post Secondary Education in all its lying, disgusting, disrespectful pride. If you want a good education avoid California campuses and anywhere the Social Justice Warriors are. Use your own open mind and let self respect, honour and free speech govern you and let no racist Justice Warrior take that from you.
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- Just1dering
- 2019-11-01
And the "Truth" will set you free
A must read for anyone holding the "purse strings" of a future education, whether it be for oneself or another.
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- Kyle Harkes
- 2019-01-09
This is a very insightful book
The author codified much of what I had been thinking. This work stands well in its own, but I would recommend watching or reading other sources and viewpoints as well. I would definitely recommend this book.
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- Sarah Smith
- 2021-07-04
Necessary, Timely, and Well Researched
Fundamental reading at a time when critical race theory threatens to dismantle the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr., or the value of individualism put forth by the civil rights movement.
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- C. byron
- 2019-12-23
Over the top
Pretty much revisiting conversations I’ve heard from: Laura Kipnis, Weinstein(s), Harris, etc. However, she really pushes narratives, and then complains of the other side doing it. You get a more balanced exploration from those I’ve already mentioned.
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