diversity hires, when is this ever been proven the best course of action.

[I am Groot]

I read this in the Globe and it was solidly sensible so I decided to gift you with it. 

In Liberal World, you believe that we should strive for a society where every person is treated as if they are endowed with equal rights and dignity, regardless of race. You may think of race as merely skin colour, a thin mask covering our shared humanity. You can recall Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech, about a “dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character,” and think, yes, that’s it: That’s the opposite of racism.

Liberal World holds to classical liberal values that, when they were lived up to, fought slavery in the 19th century and segregation in the 20th. But expressing such ideas today risks getting you laughed off campus, or chased off.

The new dominant ideology, the one professors and students know they must to some degree pay lip service to, whether they agree or not, is DEI World.

DEI World has a very different conception of race. It does not want to transcend race; it finds the notion absurd, even racist. Instead, it wants to see everything through the lens of race. Its judgments about reward and punishment, merit and demerit, justice and injustice, and even whose speech is protected and to what degree, are filtered through a particular, and particularly American, conception of race. Race is its Rosetta Stone for divining many things, including who is oppressor and who is oppressed.

Why did a fight over universities’ response to antisemitism quickly evolve into an argument over DEI? Because Jews don’t fit into the racial hierarchy of DEI World.

 

https://archive.is/3TYZp 

Edited January 10, 2024 by I am Groot

[Zeitgeist]

DEI is just another dangerous form of Marxism, because it seeks to slot people into simplistic categories of oppressors and oppressed, with the resolution being revolution, redistribution of wealth and property, etc. However, it’s perhaps even more dangerous than Marxism because it oversimplifies this oppressor-oppressed binary further by proclaiming that everyone fit into their inescapable box based on race.  It doesn’t recognize that privilege comes in all forms and races, that it shifts over lifetimes, and is hard to define objectively.  The best and only real way we can approach fairness is to make sure that discrimination doesn’t come into any of our policies, such as for hiring and university admissions.  Biases lift over time as people work and live among one another under such policies and realize that underneath we are all the same in our humanness.

Critical Race Theory also has Marxist origins in the ideas of people like Derek Bell.  These ideas have absolutely infiltrated our institutions of learning, government, and all large and medium sized businesses and organizations, including religious ones.

DEI is generally a divisive return to racism that’s being forced on the population under threat of unemployment, reputation damage, and cancellation.

In the universities, left wing DEI activists have cast Jews as the white oppressors and Palestinians as the People of Colour oppressed, so anti-Semitism is rampant.  

Edited January 10, 2024 by Zeitgeist