Posted on 11/21/2017 9:24:58 PM PST by Kaslin
A common feature of our time is the extent to which many in our nation have become preoccupied with diversity. But true diversity obsession, almost a mania, is found at our institutions of higher learning. Rather than have a knee-jerk response for or against diversity, I think we should ask just what is diversity and whether it's a good thing. How do we tell whether a college, a department or another unit within a college is diverse or not? What exemptions from diversity are permitted?
Seeing as college presidents and provosts are the main diversity pushers, we might start with their vision of diversity. Ask your average college president or provost whether he even bothers promoting political diversity among faculty. I'll guarantee that if he is honest -- and even bothers to answer the question -- he will say no. According to a recent study, professors who are registered Democrats outnumber their Republican counterparts by a 12-1 ratio. In some departments, such as history, Democratic professors outnumber their Republican counterparts by a 33-1 ratio.
The fact is that when college presidents and their diversity coterie talk about diversity, they're talking mostly about pleasing mixtures of race. Years ago, they called their agenda affirmative action, racial preferences or racial quotas. Not only did these terms fall out of favor but also voters approved initiatives banning choosing by race. Courts found some of the choosing by race unconstitutional. That meant that the race people had to repackage their agenda. That repackaging became known as diversity. Some race people were bold enough to argue that "diversity" produces educational benefits to all students, including white students. Nobody has bothered to scientifically establish what those benefits are. For example, does a racially diverse student body lead to higher scores on graduate admissions tests, such as the GRE, LSAT and MCAT? By the way, Israel, Japan and South Korea are among the world's least racially diverse nations. In terms of academic achievement, their students run circles around diversity-crazed Americans.
There is one area of college life where administrators demonstrate utter contempt for diversity, and that's in sports. It is by no means unusual to watch a Saturday afternoon college basketball game and see that the starting five on both teams are black. White players, not to mention Asian players, are underrepresented. Similar underrepresentation is practiced in college football. Where you find whites overrepresented in both sports is on the cheerleading squads, which are mostly composed of white women. If you were to explore this lack of racial diversity in sports with a college president, he might answer, "We look for the best players, and it so happens that blacks dominate." I would totally agree but ask him whether the same policy of choosing the best applies to the college's admissions policy. Of course, the honest answer would be a flat-out no.
The most important issue related to college diversity obsession is what happens to black students. Black parents should not allow their sons and daughters to fall victim to the diversity hustle, even if the diversity hustler is a black official of the college. Black parents should not allow their sons and daughters to attend a college where they would not be admitted if they were white. A good rule of thumb is not to allow your children to attend a college where their SAT score is 200 or more points below the average of that college. Keep in mind that students are not qualified or unqualified in any absolute sense. There are more than 4,800 colleges -- a college for most anybody. The bottom-line question for black parents and black people in general is: Which is better, a black student's being admitted to an elite college and winding up in the bottom of his class or flunking out or being admitted to a less prestigious college and performing just as well as his white peers and graduating? I would opt for the latter. You might ask, "Williams, but how will the nation's elite colleges fulfill their racial diversity needs?" My answer is that's their problem.
True diversity is only diversity of ideas. And now all the universities except for very few, have mass group-(non)- think where free will and individualism and freedom of religion is attacked and banned—literally (which is unconstitutional, but that is their point—to destroy the Constitution, Rule of Law and collapse society by destroying the minds of our children).
Reducing “diversity” to groups based on color, race, and behavior is dehumanizing for it reduces human beings to a color or sexual behavior and people are much more complex than those superficial elements.
Also. We are not allowed to “judge” by character-—virtue-—the ONLY thing that is “good”, for the Ancients knew that there is no freedom anywhere without the major virtues in people. There can be no civil society. But with the Marxist “grouping’ we have put irrational, evil sexual behaviors in groups-—so that we could force group-(non)-think on the masses and make Evil become Good for civil deconstruction and elimination of virtue formation in children in such cultures which always happens when we allow vice to be promoted in a “just” law (which is not possible in a true justice system).
Cultural Marxist knew to destroy culture—group people and you embed hate in the young children who are herd animals and prefer the same. Maturity is when you are capable of loving the “Other”—not the same. Young children, when “grouped” will learn to hate the other groups—or in the case of white boys—will learn to hate themselves because the curricula is embedded with psychological warfare to destroy virtue and the idea of God (Christianity) and the philosophy which created the Age of Reason, Modern Science and the US Constitution which all have to be erased from the minds of the future for the NWO of transhumanism/savery.
Good article. Thanks for posting!
The head of engineering acceptance had her office in the office of women's studies; and black studies occupied the same floor of graduate studies.
There are no white studies, no white organizations and the same for all white males.
The Marxist Commies at that school studied take over and control vertical well.
Political diversity is about the cover, not the content.
Dr. Williams has written on this previously and has been right on the mark in every jot and tittle. I find it interesting that his own institution of higher learning, George Mason University, has such a diversity office with the functions described in the article. I’d find it most interesting for Dr. Williams to record his efforts to persuade GMU to abandon the diversity office endeavor in favor of the approach the school’s namesake risked his life to establish.
The most important issue related to college diversity obsession is what happens to black students.
It is a highly debatable question as to the most important issue with regards to 'diversity'. Everything is not about what is best for blacks.
My daughter had a Transvestite speak in her Biology class on the main campus. She refused to attend that day stating she was in her ROTC uniform and it was not respectful. She hated main after one year of crying everyday she ended up graduating from the Harrisburg campus.
diversity = $hit on Whitey, take Whitey’s money, condemn Whitey for being racist, replace Whitey with the non-Whiteys who have been taking Whitey’s money.
That sounds about like it.
Written by one of the men whom I would much rather have seen as our first black president.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.