"The Diversity Delusion," with Heather Mac Donald
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Heather Mac Donald discusses the decline of the university and the rise of campus intellectual intolerance, the subjects of her important new book, The Diversity Delusion How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. She spoke at a Manhattan Institute event in autumn 2018.
Toxic ideas that originated in academia have now spread beyond the university setting, widening America's cultural divisions. Too many college students enter the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics defines the American experience. In The Diversity Delusion, Mac Donald argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America's endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has spawned a massive diversity bureaucracy, especially in higher education.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy holidays, everyone. Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, |
| 0:05.3 | editor of City Journal. From the university to the workplace, diversity is now the most important |
| 0:10.6 | criteria in everything from hiring decisions to reading assignments to cafeteria food selection. |
| 0:17.5 | Rejecting the diversity mantra constitutes an assault on the received wisdom of elite American culture, |
| 0:23.6 | and there's no right or better suited to that task than City Journal's own, long-time contributing editor, Heather MacDonald. |
| 0:30.6 | If you haven't heard, Heather is the author of the new book, The Diversity Delusion, |
| 0:35.6 | How Race and Gender Pandandering, corrupt the University |
| 0:39.2 | and undermine our culture. Coming up on the podcast, you'll hear Heather McDonald's speak |
| 0:44.3 | about the diversity delusion. This was recorded at a Manhattan Institute event earlier this year. |
| 0:50.6 | Heather's talk begins after this. We hope you enjoy. Well, thank you so much, Brian, for that extraordinary, generous introduction. |
| 1:23.5 | It's been my great honor to write for City Journal under both you and Myron Magnet, and |
| 1:29.3 | I could not have done what I've done without your insights and support. |
| 1:33.3 | And thank you for coming today. |
| 1:35.3 | This is a different experience. |
| 1:37.3 | I've been speaking on college campuses recently. |
| 1:39.3 | So you know what that means. |
| 1:43.3 | I've received the walkout, the storm the stage strategy, and at Claremont McKenna in Southern |
| 1:50.1 | California, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. |
| 1:57.2 | So-called students of color at nearby Pomona College announced that I was a quote, |
| 2:03.6 | fascist, white supremacist, warhawk, transphobe, queer-phobe classist, and ignorant of interlocking |
| 2:11.6 | systems of domination that produce the lethal conditions under which oppressed people are forced to live." |
| 2:18.3 | End quote. |
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