{"id":8126,"date":"2014-02-17T04:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/17\/david-gelernter-on-the-diversity-obsession\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:55:36","slug":"david-gelernter-on-the-diversity-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/17\/david-gelernter-on-the-diversity-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gelernter on the Diversity Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The War on Truth<\/a> (emphasis<\/strong> and a bit of ascerbic commentary added):<\/span><\/p>\n

How can we explain intelligent, articulate, intellectually vigorous people stuck in time, repeating themselves endlessly like robots? Even if the diversity crusade hadn\u2019t become an embarrassment and a sham, the sheer mindless obsession<\/em> of it suggests a seriously neurotic institution. Yale doesn\u2019t lack diversity, just rationality. Of course it lacks intellectual<\/em> diversity, but that problem has been solved by shipping \u201cdiversity\u201d off to redefinition camp. American English is feeling a lot better, thank you, now that it\u2019s been lobotomized by political hacks. (Covered by Obamacare!)<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

The good thing about the \u201cdiversity\u201d problem is that you can obsess over it forever with no risk of solving it, because it is insoluble\u2014based as it is on a wholly implausible lie. The diversity kingpins aim for group representation in all academic fields based on a group\u2019s numbers in the student population, and in America (eventually the world) at large. But why would anyone suspect that both sexes and all races and nationalities have approximately the same skills at everything? And the same interests in everything? And the same physical qualifications for everything? Doesn\u2019t diversity imply (for lack of a better term) diversity<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

No!\u2014and that\u2019s the best thing about the diversity crusade. It is actually an anti<\/em>-diversity crusade, waged by people who detest diversity. Its goal is to suppress diversity of every sort. Yale women must behave just like Yale men: must major in the same things at the same rates, go out for sports in the same numbers, get the same jobs, make the same money, care to the same extent in the same way about children, family, money, power, sex, and everything else. So why are there \u201cWomen\u2019s Studies\u201d departments? Because (dammit!) women and men are totally different!<\/em> So why is there a diversity campaign? Because women and men are exactly the same<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States accomplished the amazing feat of virtually extinguishing race prejudice in a single generation, between the late 1950s and the early \u201980s. It was a superb accomplishment, on the order of the Moon landings. But young Americans get no chance to take pride in it: We don\u2019t just suppress the facts, we lie about them. We teach our children from kindergarten up that America still struggles with prejudice against approved minorities and women, when they can see with their own eyes that prejudice in favor <\/em>of approved minorities and women is everywhere\u2014in education, industry, and government. How are they supposed to learn that it is important to tell the truth? How will they learn what the truth means?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This problem is not keeping the Obama regime up nights. A Hillary administration would be equally indifferent.<\/span><\/p>\n

War on Truth is the Obama administration\u2019s middle name, and sometimes seems to be its actual goal. Releasing the toxic phrase \u201cWar on Women\u201d into the political atmosphere was a risky move for the left\u2014they have got away with it only because Republicans are so timid and lazy.<\/strong> That Republicans are antiwoman is an absurd lie, and what does it say about Republican women? Are they dupes or traitors? Or just dumb broads? (You know how women are about politics. Hopeless.) There was a time when honest Americans of every political type would have exploded at the sheer, filthy dishonesty of the phrase. No more. American culture is changing.<\/span><\/p>\n

BV:  It is indeed.  Clear proof is that Obama gets away with his repeated outright lies, his Orwellianisms and his nine-to-five shuck and jive.  Something is wrong when even conservative commentators refer to his brazen lies by saying that the POMO prez  "misspoke."  <\/span><\/p>\n

While the Obamacrats rave on about the War on Women (believing that abortion poses an ethical question being tantamount, after all, to mowing down young girls in the street as they emerge from the shelters in which they have gathered, cowering, in fear of Republicans)\u2014while they denounce the War on Women, Obamacrats have been merrily waging a war on jobs, a war on small business, a war on the best-by-far health care system in human history, a war on America\u2019s international influence and prestige, a war on economic recovery, a war on energy independence, a war on the Constitution, and many other battles around the edges. But the War on Truth matters most, hurts most, and will be remembered longest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do Republicans care about the cultural mainstream\u2019s real prejudice against white boys? Not in the least. Will Republicans challenge the diversity racket, the \u201caffirmative action\u201d con game that still dominates so many important institutional decisions? Americans dislike affirmative action and always have, but Republicans are too scared to speak up.<\/strong> Elections are approaching. Let us at least hear about this war on truth, from every last Republican candidate, for every office, at every level, every day. American culture, society, civilization are at stake. Please<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The chickenshit RINOs are too much enamoured of their perquisites, power, and pelf to take a principled stand on anything.  They are go-along-to-get-along, kick-the-can-down-the-road types out for themselves first and foremost, and the Republic be damned.  They are as republican as the Dems are democratic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From The War on Truth (emphasis and a bit of ascerbic commentary added): How can we explain intelligent, articulate, intellectually vigorous people stuck in time, repeating themselves endlessly like robots? Even if the diversity crusade hadn\u2019t become an embarrassment and a sham, the sheer mindless obsession of it suggests a seriously neurotic institution. Yale doesn\u2019t … Continue reading “David Gelernter on the Diversity Obsession”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}