Uncommon Knowledge: Heather Mac Donald on The Delusion of Diversity

 

Is the dedication to diversity undermining American culture? In her book The Diversity Delusion, Heather Mac Donald argues that the focus on race and gender diversity is harming society. Mac Donald and I discuss how she was protested off of school campuses by students because of her ideas. They discuss the collapse of free-speech ideals on college campuses in the United States and how the dedication to diversity doesn’t extend to a diversity of thought.

Mac Donald also breaks down issues of gender and racial equality. She talks about how affirmative action has not had the impact that was intended and has in fact made attending college more difficult for minorities who are accepted to schools they are not ready for. She also goes on to analyze rape culture on college campuses and posits her theories as to why discussions of sexual violence have become more prevalent now than in the past.

Recorded on February 25, 2019.

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  1. DonG Coolidge
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    Peter interviews well.  Skill and preparation are apparent.   Thanks.

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  2. Manny Coolidge
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    What about immigration?  It’s not just about race and gender.  The pandering to immigration for diversity is just as much altering American culture (if not western culture as a whole) as race and gender.  At least people who play the race and gender cards are part of American culture.  Immigration is fundamentally changing what is distinctly Western.  That’s the real harmful diversity.

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  3. I Walton Member
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    Absolutely outstanding. Listen to it.

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  4. colleenb Member
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    Great interview.  Depressing as hell.  I would love to hear what Ms. MacDonald has to say about higher education in the US/West v. China.  Chinese educators are not worrying about the diversity delusion but they also don’t have academic freedom.  How is the US/West stacking up against them?    

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  5. Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… Member
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    This is a fine interview, and MacDonald makes good points, but I think that all of this was quite obvious when I was on campus in the late 1980s.  Allan Bloom wrote about it in The Closing of the American Mind back in 1987.

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