How Academia’s Unhealthy Obsession With Diversity Creates Social Unrest

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How Academia’s Unhealthy Obsession With Diversity Creates Social Unrest
A new book by Heather Mac Donald, 'The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture,' provides evidence and underlines the causes behind campus radicalism to Judge Kavanaugh’s witchhunt.
The Federalist
Dec. 21, 2018
Sumantra Maitra

...   On a more current note, an undergraduate black student at Columbia who decided to study music recently rebelled against Mozart. “Why did I have to listen in music humanities to this Mozart?” she raged against Euro-Western civilizational giants, “My problem with the core is that it upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. It’s a racist core. Who is this Mozart, this Haydn, these superior white men? There are no women, no people of color.”
An Unholy Alliance

That, and several other such incidents are charted in the new book by Heather Mac Donald, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, which attempts to understand the roots of our current cultural crisis, and traces it back to the universities, the incubation ground for social strife that we are witnessing across the West.  ...

Or consider how certain academics, found at colleges across the country such as the University of Missouri, Pomona, Claremont Mckenna, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Berkeley have used agitated students as pawns to control the academy and stifle conservative voices. Or how it has spawned a burgeoning diversity bureaucracy that treats students as consumers, whose feelings come paramount, compared to facts. The feminist sex panic, which defies statistics; the diversity agenda, which stifles innovation in tech giants; the university departments, which ditch Beethoven for Baha Men — the list is never-ending and interconnected.

The result? The products of these universities are out now in the streets, and in media and other professions, as radical activists fomenting a social revolution.  ...

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