Diversity Equity Inclusion
Diversity
Diversity, or is it conformity?
Diversity inclusion and equality are in some senses mutually exclusive. If you include everything in a category you lose the diversity between different categories. Diverse cultures have different, not equal, characteristics. If you take a culture, add many people of different cultures and suppress the host culture, then you have not added to the diversity in the world, you have subtracted.
Any institution that tells you it is going for diversity is jettisoning meritocracy.
Heather McDonald, English literature scholar, lawyer and author:
Every single day someone in STEM or medicine sends me a report from his field’s scientific journal declaring science or maths racist because they have a disparate impact, or someone in classical music sends me the latest manifesto from a symphony orchestra saying the inheritance of classical music is racist.
Western Civilization is all coming down unless we gain the courage to speak the truth that colourblind standards are not racist.
Progressive education and the Progressive programme of weakening the family have led to black children having low average academic abilities. Progressives then use the underperfomance of ethnic minorities to demand more Progressivism and condemn Western Civilization.
In the post-George Floyd era black juveniles are shot at 100 times the rate of whites. Who is killing them? Not the police, not whites but other blacks. There is carnage going on, on an unbelievable basis daily in inner cities and the world and the press turns its eyes away because it is terrified it does not know how to close those crime gaps.
Deifying Diversity: a value for our times. Panel discussion
Panel and audience discussion at the Battle of Ideas Conference, offering a wide range of views, featuring Maya Forstater (Sex Matters) and Simon Fanshawe (Stonewall founder)
Maya Forstater: I won my case [on her dismissal for holding gender critical views] but I will not be employed again in my sector (International Development). That is the reality that the Diversity industry in work has created.
Tomiwa Owalade (New Statesman journalist): We don’t talk about diversity with enough diversity. All too often, when we talk about diversity, what many people in fact mean is conformity. Conformity to an ideological position, a particular moral and social status as well.
Diversity just is. It does not need to be artificially fabricated. Ironically today it needs protection from those shouting Diversity! We have a world where half are male, half female, where some are good at science, some at English or Art, and where some are good at sport and some at music. The 8 billion of us who are humans sharing our planet today are naturally divided into diverse races and cultures. We need to respect different races and cultures, and not attack or denigrate others. We should not exploit those who are in a minority, living in our own culture, for the purpose of attacking our own culture. Most of us relish the diversity we encounter as we travel to different nations, and we do not want to see a world of cultural uniformity. Yet sadly we see aggressive destruction against other groups in various parts of the world.
In the West what we see is ideological aggression against our own culture, by those hungry for power and a superficial moral ascendancy through applying impossible unrealistic standards of perfection and, if there is any average inequality between groups, then declaring the West systemically unjust to certain chosen minorities. Anyone with open eyes can see that we are setting up an unhappy and divided, fear-laden and violent West for our children to inherit. October 7th 2023 gave us a small foretaste of where we are heading, thanks to the ideologues of EDI.
The Dragon has always stood out for its nonconformity rather than groupthink.
Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott: The Cancelling of the American Mind
If we want a better society that produces better solutions to the problems it faces, we need to be teaching nonconformity at every single level of the education process, Not even our most sacred cows can be spared from devil’s advocacy and thought experimentation.
Yet our education system is incentivizing conformity and groupthink. Unless this environment drastically improves and quickly we shouldn’t be surprised that trust in the accuracy of professors’ and experts’ findings diminishes. Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged.
“Where all think alike, “the essayist Walter Lippmann once wrote, “no one thinks very much”.
