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The Diversity Delusion
- How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
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.
Critic reviews
“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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- S. Morris
- 16-08-23
AN Uncomfortable Truth
Heather Mac Donald is one of those few writers out there that dare to challenge the overriding narrative that governments and mainstream media at large put out there about the real state of the world. Everyone should read this and, if nothing else, allow it to redress the long standing imbalance in the way things are reported. it's vital for people to understand the reality behind the delusion propagated by the aforementioned parties.
It's likely that this book will fail to reach certain demographics, those who firmly believe the false narrative fed to them. If there's one thing I've learned over the past few years, it's that mainstream media doesn't report the real, and very inconvenient facts. Instead, media outlets all have their biasses, usually politically motivated.
However, when you unearth the actual facts, the real story is very different from the picture painted. Mac Donald has delved into the facts and lays them out in the Diversity Delusion.
If you've not read anything by the likes of Heather Mac Donald, Douglas Murray or Andrew Doyle and you've begun to question what you hear every day, then see where we're really going and what's happening right now, you'll be shocked and dismayed.
Mac Donald's writing is incisive, articulate and revealing. We are taken on a journey that will shock and appaul most readers. This book, like those from the aforementioned authors, will confirm what some may be confused about. We hear in the media on a regular basis how we live in societies with Systematic/institutional racism Or, we hear how the patriarchy is in full force everywhere and that women face glass ceilings etc. Most people fail to question these narratives, despite not seeing evidence of it in their daily lives.
Some have labelled writers like Mac Donald as "right wing" simply because they expose an uncomfortable truth about the western world in which we live. When inconvenient facts deny the comfortable rhetoric directed at you from government and media sources, it's often shouted down in an attempt to silence anything that challenges their world view.
I cannot recommend this book strongly enough for anyone who wants an insight into the real truth, not the media's spin on it. However, if you are content to believe what your told to believe, then I suggest you skip this one.
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- Edward Jennings
- 02-07-19
Fantastic deconstruction of the diversity industry
Utterly riveting. Couldn't wait for the next chapter. Lucid, thorough and well researched HM has crystallised the objections to delusional practices in academia and industry.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to discovery where diversity helps or hinders their environment and why this is the case.
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