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The Diversity Delusion
- How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
By the New York Times best-selling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning.
America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting grammar and spelling, or employers hiring by merit? Racist and sexist. Students emerge into the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics is the American experience. Speech that challenges these campus orthodoxies is silenced with brute force.
The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia. Diversity commissars denounce meritocratic standards as discriminatory, enforce hiring quotas, and teach students and adults alike to think of themselves as perpetual victims. From #MeToo mania that blurs flirtations with criminal acts, to implicit bias and diversity compliance training that sees racism in every interaction, Heather Mac Donald argues that we are creating a nation of narrowed minds, primed for grievance, and that we are putting our competitive edge at risk.
But there is hope in the works of authors, composers, and artists who have long inspired the best in us. Compiling the author’s decades of research and writing on the subject, The Diversity Delusion calls for a return to the classical liberal pursuits of open-minded inquiry and expression, by which everyone can discover a common humanity.
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- ben kuzmich
- 2019-04-12
Peterson and Shapiro would be proud
Very interesting and informative. if you follow the intellectual dark web, then youll get a kick out of this.
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- Kyle Harkes
- 2019-01-09
This is a very insightful book
The author codified much of what I had been thinking. This work stands well in its own, but I would recommend watching or reading other sources and viewpoints as well. I would definitely recommend this book.
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- C. byron
- 2019-12-23
Over the top
Pretty much revisiting conversations I’ve heard from: Laura Kipnis, Weinstein(s), Harris, etc. However, she really pushes narratives, and then complains of the other side doing it. You get a more balanced exploration from those I’ve already mentioned.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-01-12
For everyone to know.
Loved this. as it points out just how prejudice the Social Justice people really are and the cowards they are hiding behind lies and deceit while profiting largely from it. Yes this book describes how, especially former elite universities, some surviving by reputation only, are suffering and how they through racism say everyone else is racist. This is the declining of Post Secondary Education in all its lying, disgusting, disrespectful pride. If you want a good education avoid California campuses and anywhere the Social Justice Warriors are. Use your own open mind and let self respect, honour and free speech govern you and let no racist Justice Warrior take that from you.
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- Just1dering
- 2019-11-01
And the "Truth" will set you free
A must read for anyone holding the "purse strings" of a future education, whether it be for oneself or another.
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- Sarah Smith
- 2021-07-04
Necessary, Timely, and Well Researched
Fundamental reading at a time when critical race theory threatens to dismantle the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr., or the value of individualism put forth by the civil rights movement.
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- Stephen A. Siebert
- 2018-10-02
Exhaustive on her subject!
Heather Mac Donald’ Diversity Delusion is exhaustive without being exhausting.
Much of what she writes about and duly denounces came as a revelation to me.
Having a bachelors degree, as well as a masters degree, obtained after studying at five different Catholic universities in three different countries, obtained by 1994, I value what she defends as essential in a liberal arts education. But, having been outside of the university setting for almost a generation, I have been unaware of the apparent disintegration of learning at today’s university. What a disaster for our children, and society.
I appreciate her thorough referencing of The Great Courses of the Teaching Company, as a light in the darkness. I’ve been a customer of the Teaching Company for around twelve years, and couldn’t agree with Mac Donald more.
This is a book worth reading and listening to for everyone invested in the education of young minds. Parents, professors and students will do well to give Ms. Mac Donald an ear.
On her next edition of this book, if one is in the making, I would appreciate an exposé on colleges and universities in the United States who are doing things right regarding the liberal arts. Although Hillsdale College, Ave Maria University, and Thomas Aquinas College, just to name a few, cannot compare in size to the U.C. campuses, and state schools around the country, as well as Ivy League universities, it would be helpful, I think, if she were to add these institutions to the refreshing chapter on the Teaching Company.
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- Dan
- 2018-09-10
Important topics covered by a skeptic of the prevailing narrative.
I don’t agree with everything said in this book but there are important things discussed in this book that have been deemed off limits. Those limits must be challenged and, when appropriate, broken. Without such challenges, progress will be impossible.
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- Doc
- 2018-11-11
Not Quite What I'd Hoped For
I was expecting something at the level of Dr. Sowell. This was more of a "ripped from the headlines" commentary than a heavily researched work.
It was decent, but didn't go into as much depth as I'd hoped.
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- Wayne
- 2018-09-10
Definition of the campus 'diversity' issue
It seems unlikely that two books so similar as The Diversity Delusion and The Coddling of the American Mind would be released on the same day. Author Heather Mac Donald goes into far more detail in her citing of examples of the negative impact of the campus diversity delusion than Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff while they offer specific prescriptive solutions that she does not. Along the way in The Diversity Delusion Mac Donald dismantles a central premise of The Coddling of the American Mind that the current campus lack of tolerance began in 2013 as the first of the Internet generation (I-gen) became college freshmen. She also does a much better job of describing how the politicization of the social sciences has already made huge inroads into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines.
Despite my issues with the proposed solutions in the Haidt/Lukianoff book and despite the my lower rating for it, if the listener has time for just one of the two books I recommend The Coddling of the American Mind over The Diversity Delusion. But consider listening to both.
54 people found this helpful
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- Allan Graves
- 2020-12-02
The Epitome of Arrogance
Talk about an overly verbose and self indulgent writer. The author has taken simple thoughts and dressed them up with synonyms to simply sound intellectually... offensive. While she may have read Socrates and Aristotle her inability to relate to their teachings is astonishing. The very fabric of education is to challenge the status quo - is the reason why we have thought leaders who keep getting challenged in the social sciences. My sense is that she uses verbosity to defend her very own feelings of victim hood, masking her privilege. It comes across very clear on her positions of people of color, women, and those other than heterosexuals should be/behave like. It is clear that she lacks the emotionally intelligence to actually address these issues of diversity in a social science environment. I picked up this book recommended by a family member who loves to live in a double standard world. Contrary to what this book suggests, I do welcome opposing opinions. However, I don’t indulge in utilizing narratives as facts to present a very extremist conservative view. Should you read this? Nah, skip it. Unless you want to flip through pages written by an emotional intelligent buffoon pretending to be a pundits.
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- Princess Bride
- 2020-06-12
Where is the silent majority?
I say this as a progressive. Heather Mac Donald has competently documented and critiqued the current state of identity politics, ‘wokeism’ and all manner of intolerant, ignorant and bad-faith-based (student) activism which seeks to subvert the worthy and noble values our society is built upon. This is an important book and at this time (June 2020) its message is more timely than ever. I see relatively few reviews but
I hope people are reading this and authors like McWhorter, Steele and even the book, The Coddling of the American Mind. I don’t really understand why the left has allowed this illiberal and undemocratic element to go unchecked (White Guilt?), but it’s going to take the American public to wake up (in a different way) and challenge this threat to our academic institutions, private enterprise and civil liberties.
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- @Cnizzle3
- 2019-10-17
Outstanding
An outstanding description of the embarrassment of what is the university today. Mac Donald's research and presentation is incredible.
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- Eric
- 2020-10-16
You Will Not Change Your Mind
This author rightfully brings to light several instances of injustice in the name of "justice." I think there is no question that she blows the whistle on leftism gone-too-far. While this is a good thing, I am not sure she moves the needle very far. She succeeds in stirring up outrage in those who already agree with her. She also succeeds in drawing the "racist, sexist, transphobic, xenophobic..." accusations from those who already disagree with her. Basically you are pretty likely to walk away with the same opinion you walked in with, but you'll be more stirred up than when you were before. I wish she presented everything more gently, with more credit to the other side. It comes across as a bit too much of a Fox news rant than I had hoped even if much of it is valid content.
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- JMB
- 2020-08-24
The Narrator
I'll take the hit; my fault for not listening to a sample first. I just can't take the narrator's voice and speaking style. I didn't listen to this but read instead. Heather McDonald is great.
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- Donald L. Huxley
- 2018-09-18
A must read and warning to every American on the damage the universities are doing to our students and country.
Students graduate as victims who are not equipped to make adult decisions. Universities are now victim centers. Everything is based on lies and phantom racism/sexism. They have become wisdom free and left wing indoctrination centers.
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