The Downside of Diversity

The Downside of Diversity 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-downside-of-diversity-11564758009

Excerpt: For this program to work, it is essential that students remain in the corners to which they have been assigned. Indeed, it is not enough merely to recognize that the members of each group contribute some distinctive dimension to their school’s diversity. To reassure those whose groups have been the victims of social prejudice and discrimination, extra deference must be given to their life experience. The members of more privileged groups must be taught to “check their privilege,” and the identity of minority students must be treated as a possession that no one else may “appropriate,” in however well-meaning a way. The upshot is that students are lauded for the beliefs and feelings they bring to their school on account of their separate identities, rather than being reminded of what they all stand to gain by being there—the inestimable privilege of joining in a rational inquiry that subjects every one of their sentiments and beliefs to the same rigorous demand for explanation and justification. (The idea of diversity is great, that we all bring something important to the table, shouldn’t be harmed because of it, and can value each other’s experience.But when you use your race to encourage mediocrity, your religion as a defense to murder, injure, enslave, stifle free discussion, and oppress others, and what you do with your genitalia is more than a private matter, I’m lost. I look at AOC and wonder: here was an Intel prize winner, essentially a Nobel prize in science for high school students, yet she chose to be a waitress and then complain about the oppression in her choice. Show me the excellence in what you are and what you believe, and quit telling me I need to swallow the dirty part in the name of diversity.  Show me we can have a meaningful plan to right past wrongs. More importantly, show me you have a better way of structuring a logical argument than the old white male approach that has stood the test of over 2000 years.  Yelling, punching, whining, and crying don’t win me over. --GS