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Title: Diversity and Inclusion Insanity
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URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01 ... ersity-and-inclusion-insanity/
Published: Jan 22, 2020
Author: Walter E. Williams
Post Date: 2020-01-22 09:48:35 by Ada
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Views: 1696
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It’s nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping from their lips. Diversity and inclusion appear to be the end-all and be-all of their existence. So, I thought I’d begin this discussion by first looking up the definition of diversity. According to the Oxford Dictionary, diversity is “the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.” The definition gratuitously adds, “equality and diversity should be supported for their own sake.” The standard definition given for inclusion is involvement and empowerment where the inherent worth and dignity of all people are recognized. Here’s my question to those who are wedded to diversity and inclusion: Are people better off the less they have in common with one another? For example, women are less likely to be able to march 12.4 miles in five hours with an 83-pound assault load. They are also less likely to be able to crawl, sprint, negotiate obstacles and move a wounded comrade weighing 165 pounds while carrying that load. Would anyone argue that a military outfit would benefit from diversity by including soldiers who can and those who cannot march 12 miles in five hours while carrying an 83-pound load? American Contempt for ... Walter E. Williams Best Price: $5.90 Buy New $13.13 (as of 08:30 EST - Details) You say, “Williams, the military is an exception!” What about language? The International Civil Aviation Organization has decreed that all air traffic controllers and flight crew members engaged in or in contact with international flights must be proficient in the English language as a general spoken medium. According to UNESCO, there are about 7,000 languages in the world. The International Civil Aviation Organization could promote language inclusiveness by requiring language rotation. Some years, Cebuano (of the Malayo-Polynesian language family) and in other years Kinyarwanda (of the Niger-Congo language family) could be the language of pilots and air traffic controllers. Keep in mind that it is claimed that the great benefit of diversity and inclusiveness is that it promotes and fosters a sense of belonging. It values and practices respect for the differences in the talents, beliefs, backgrounds and ways of living of its members. Another issue is what should be done when people who should know better praise nondiversity and noninclusiveness? Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said, “I applaud commissioner Adam Silver’s commitment to diversity and inclusion within the NBA.” During the 2018-2019 season, more than 33% of NBA teams had head coaches of color. The number of assistant head coaches of color was over 42%. The number of black NBA players was 82%. In the face of these statistics, Oris Stuart, the NBA’s chief diversity and inclusion officer said, “Diversity, inclusion and equality are central to every aspect of our game and our business.” I would like for Jesse Jackson and others who claim that there’s racial diversity and inclusiveness in professional basketball to make their case. The same question can be asked about professional football where 70% of NFL players are black, and 9% of team head coaches are black. The thornier question and challenge is what can be done to make professional basketball and football look more like the American population? Most of the diversity and inclusiveness insanity has its roots in academia. An example is a paper titled “Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors,” written by Naval Postgraduate School professor Thomas Ahn, Duke University economics professor Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University researcher Amy Hopson, and James R. Thomas of the Federal Trade Commission. The authors argue that science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at colleges and universities lacking female enrollment can be attributed largely to harsh grading policies in these fields. Their solution to increase the number of women’s involvement in STEM is to standardize grading curves, in order to grade less “harshly.” The insanity of this approach is to not only weaken standards for women but to weaken standards across the board. This is more evidence that George Orwell was absolutely right when he said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Pertinent essay -- thanks. Most of the diversity and inclusiveness insanity has its roots in academia. Indeed. I had a old buddy who became a professor at Rutgers U. He became a typical wealthy limousine liberal-leftist.... By 2011 he was trying to "education" ME on the latest: "CIS Gender" designations and "White Privilege". I laughed in his face. He considered it his greatest accomplishment in life to indoctrinate this insanity to college Freshmen. Yes -- ALL of those garbage "White, Male Oppression" and "White Privilege" memes and other subversive, insane trends emerge out of Academia, spreading to MSM and the culture like a virus. Tis a puzzlement why anyone would want to send their child to a liberal arts school.
Your frankness and verve really liven things up around here -- why can't we have 10 of you? :-D There's an article in this mag called Cracking The Whip at Rutgers but I don't know how to get the page readable: https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=d&d=IFL19880801-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1-- txt-txIN---------------1 Shorter items from the same fabulous issue: https://www.big-lies.org/instauration/Instauration-1988-08-August-pt2.pdf Let's not forget, folks, where this spreading ocean of BS ORIGINALLY comes from: JEWS -- JEWISH FRANKFURT SCHOOL -- JEWISH MEDIA MONOPOLY -- JEWDICIARY -- JEW LAWYERS -- ADL -- SPLC -- ETC. In a word, communist antiChrist Jews. That's how it got to school. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
For your old friend, Lib -- if he's still living. Page 10! www.re sist.com/Instaurati...ve/Instauration198808.pdf You'll no doubt enjoy perusing other issues from the mag's golden age -- about 1986-91: _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Or a liberal anything else ;)
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Heh...*I* can't even deal with ONE of me. Its encouraging to see someone like you here who also goes beyond the usual programming and finds THAT stuff (yeah, like TRUTH) more interesting. You and I have probably both been "news" and politics" hounds for a longer time than we'd admit; Once you realize much of it is pure theater, scripted as much as NASA or Hollywood (OR, some sports events), you must look at everything much differently. There's an article in this mag called Cracking The Whip at Rutgers but I don't know how to get the page readable... Thanks for the link. 1988. Geez. Rutgers is such a Leftist bastion. As we can clearly see by the newsletter, this entire SJW/ Hate-Whitey/Upside Down Anarchy Agenda has been scheduled for over 30 years!! Trying to torture me, NN? lol. I'll check out some other issue -- great research, btw.... For your old friend, Lib -- if he's still living. Page 10! As a matter of fact NN, my old Leftist professor/friend from childhood (suddenly) passed away in his sleep of a heart attack one Sunday, 2015... I was devastated. He (as THE only liberal) and several of us (conservatives) had been emailing each other; Things got very politically contentious just the days before he died. I felt some guilt -- not only for the hard time I gave him, but because he was a strident Atheist. (and that I didn't try hard enough to focus on my friend's faith and his Eternity. FWIW,we both attended the same Catholic Church as kids.) Especially within the last 20 years or so. I think many parents are/were indifferent or ignorant about potentially entrusting LEFTIST/INSANE college faculty and institutions to prepare them about life AND a career. FATAL MISTAKE, wasn't/isn't it? Snowflake U. is about DUMBING DOWN. And brainwashing. Back in the 70s it seemed more than half of all college students initially chose Liberal Arts (because we were confused, unguided pods.) They/we fell prey to the indoctrination and agenda of the Globalist-SJWs. Amen! The assumption was that a liberal arts education would teach how to think. Quite the opposite now.
Prolly hasn't been true since -- 1900? Both world wars were catastrophes for ameriKa, The '20s were beginning of the end.
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Wow -- care to tell us which one? Regrets are inevitable on the loss of some friends and family -- but theology has it they go to heaven where I'm sure they understand all and forgive all. (= Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner.) We're proud of you for trying to help him see the light. Right, gang? _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Piercing insights, guy. THEATER IS WHAT IT IS. One of our fave columnists once reported asking a couple of renowned TV news stars how they could tell such whoppers day after day on the air. "Oh, we're just actors!" they said. "We just say what they tell us to!" The Establishment plot, script, direct, produce, light and score the sheeple's reality. THEY KNOW it's a movie and dedicate themselves to creating white hat hero cowboys and black hat villains, manipulating the masses' emotions just like thespians and cinéastes do in theaters. Of course they've brazenly pressed Hellywood into service for this agenda and Hellywood gleefully complies -- you can't rape the willing! I'm sure the FBI still has agents regularly on movie sets -- J. Edgar Hoover even appeared as an extra in a couple of flix. Hope you'll enjoy Instauration's unique mix of uncensored news, wit and wisdom. Any letters to the editor from '070' (Safety Valve dept.) are prolly from me. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Thanks for understanding my heart, brutha... The regrets for me as a Christian (which I am, but wasn't strong enough at the time) is that I did not do enough to explain to my friend so he could understand the dynamics and need for a Savior and "Salvation." Sure....*some* folks believe in a universal "forgiveness" for our life's transgressions (minor & major) and free pass to "Heaven." But then, by who's standard of "Law" is this THE case? (It's an Eternally Fatal Mistake if one assumes or presumes an unconditional "Free Pass" to Heaven, or some alternative "Way.") According to Christian theology, "forgiveness" of our trespasses or sins can be exonerated only by One. That forgiveness is called the "Grace of God," and by Faith is THE single Greatest Gift we can receive. (see John 3;16) The Establishment plot, script, direct, produce, light and score the sheeple's reality. THEY KNOW it's a movie and dedicate themselves to creating white hat hero cowboys and black hat villains, manipulating the masses' emotions just like thespians and cinéastes do in theaters. Hear ya -- well stated. Choreographed theater, thespians assigned roles. Yes, exactly -- designed to "manipulate the masses' emotions." (Notice the theaters is about creating either fear, hate, or paranoia -- or ALL simultaneously.) And still...even WE who understand the theater and scripts AND can even predict some of it -- fall prey to those same emotions and distractions. Here are the three main fear-based, State-Run theatrical "ACTS" being pushed currently: 1) "Impeachment" It never ends. BY DESIGN. (since circa 911 AD) The Treaty Of St. Clair-sur-Epte- In 911 A.D., the Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte was signed. Under the terms of the treaty, the Kingdom of Normandy was established, Rollo the Viking became the first ruler, and he converted to Christianity. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Oh boy, do they LOVE to whip hate upp. So lucrative for the jew-run civil riots industry! _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Honestly, Lib, if there is a God I think only universalism makes sense. We're un-ceremoniously thrown into this world and expected to perform at our best for 16, 16 or 106 years with no preparation and only one take on every scene. Conditions of life ruin many people's souls and character -- it really does work that way, so what merciful God could hold anything against us for 600 quintillion decillion nonillion dodeca-illion brazillion years? This was all his idea! I tell you one thing, that wouldn't be a merciful or loving god in my opinion - - I'd want nothing to do with him. Honestly I'm an agnostic anymore -- I believe in Christianity but not necessarily Christ ;-) _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
The Treaty Of St. Clair-sur-Epte- In 911 A.D., the Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte was signed. Under the terms of the treaty, the Kingdom of Normandy was established, Rollo the Viking became the first ruler, and he converted to Christianity. MAN! You whipped that up quick! (had no idea the Event/Treaty on the actual date/year of 911 AD was so well documented (AND actually significant.) I guess I should have been more clear on my reference -- but then I wouldn't have learned something. The "911 A" *I* was referring to was...THE 911, in the fateful year of 2001 AD. (The year EVERYTHING changed forever.) So lucrative for the jew-run civil riots industry! Job One for the NWO is Fear, Hate, Pandemonium, AND turning everything UPSIDE DOWN and inverting Truth. The Talmudic J's (SPLC, ACLU, Media/Hollywood, etal are implicated up to their eyeballs.) But let's not forget their PTB-NWO Pagan-Elites' accomplices. Think of them all as "Team Anti-Christ." :-) Hmmm... NN, I *could* spend the next couple of weeks and hundreds of posts addressing your post here... BUT... I'll eventually whittle it down to something a bit more manageable :-) In a church music discussion forum I just caused WW III by casually stating that Hollywood is run by 'Christ-hating degenerates'. Can you imagine? Church people are so cut off from reality, and church musicians are the most sickeningly peecee crowd this side of the Auntie Defecation League. I'd link the page, but only members can open 'em. Fools are philosophizing about my heresy, and ninny-nerds are sitting raptly at their feet making them feel smart. It's disgusting. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Screaming Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies" at a bunch of pro-abortion freaks gathered in front of a Catholic church almost got me beat up about twenty-five years ago, but a nun came out and diffused the situation. I was just walking home from a bar and they started yelling at me, I wanted no part of it.
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
LOLOLOL, what a scene! The freaks just started yelling at you as you passed? 'ugly feminists' is a fun search >;) images.search.yahoo.com/y...5ixeYSYA0CsPxQt.;_ylu=X3o DMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz? p=ugly+feminists&type=7125&hspart=avg&hsimp=yhs- securebrowser¶m1=c1808cf0da3a4a3a891ef4fa20bee6ef¶m2=20190708¶m3=AVG+ Secure+Browser%7C77.2.2156.122¶m4=15%7CUS%7C1.17.4.544%7C1.17.4.544&ei=UTF- 8&fr=yhs-avg-securebrowser _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Pretty much. Of course after they started their nonsense I wasn't going to pass up the chance for a bit of fun. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
GOOD. We must speak up, refute the BS, get it off our chests. Fizicly good for us among other things.
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
#2. To: Liberator, neoconsnailed (#1)
#3. To: Liberator (#1)
#4. To: Liberator, All (#1)
#5. To: Ada, Liberator (#2)
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
#7. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)
You'll no doubt enjoy perusing other issues from the mag's golden age -- about 1986-91:
#8. To: Ada, NeonconsNailed (#2)
Tis a puzzlement why anyone would want to send their child to a liberal arts school.
#9. To: NeoconsNailed, Ada (#5)
Or a liberal anything else ;)
#10. To: Liberator (#8)
Back in the 70s it seemed more than half of all college students initially chose Liberal Arts
#11. To: Ada (#10)
#12. To: Liberator (#7)
#13. To: Liberator, All (#6)
#14. To: NeoconsNailed (#12)
Regrets are inevitable on the loss of some friends and family -- but theology has it they go to heaven where I'm sure they understand all and forgive all.
#15. To: NeoconsNailed (#13)
THEATER IS WHAT IT IS. One of our fave columnists once reported asking a couple of renowned TV news stars how they could tell such whoppers day after day on the air. "Oh, we're just actors!" they said. "We just say what they tell us to!"
2) Chinese "Corona-Virus epidemic" (laboratory-created virus? Soon to be exported to the US to help "thin out the herd"?)
3) Virginia-Govt 2A Test-Run
#16. To: Liberator (#15)
is this what you reference?
#17. To: Liberator (#15)
Choreographed theater, thespians assigned roles. Yes, exactly -- designed to "manipulate the masses' emotions." (Notice the theaters is about creating either fear, hate, or paranoia -- or ALL simultaneously.)
#18. To: Liberator (#14)
#19. To: Lod (#16)
(Edited)
(is this what you reference?)
#20. To: NeoconsNailed (#17)
Oh boy, do they LOVE to whip hate upp.
#21. To: NeoconsNailed (#18)
#22. To: Liberator (#20)
#23. To: NeoconsNailed (#22)
#24. To: Dakmar (#23)
#25. To: NeoconsNailed (#24)
LOLOLOL, what a scene! The freaks just started yelling at you as you passed?
#26. To: Dakmar (#25)
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