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Emperor
Diversity is the new slogan under which academics and their institutions march. But what is it? What does it mean? How will we know when we have achieved a sufficient amount?
In my discipline, sociology, diversity can refer to almost anything other than white males, and may even include white males if they can lay claim to some form of victim status (e.g., are LGBT, differently abled, vegan, or depart from the mainstream in some other identifiable way).
Significantly, however, diversity does not seem to include political diversity.
Sociology departments would actively recruit an LGBT candidate for an opening, with something close to 100 percent consensus that this would fill a departmental need. But actively recruit a Republican, a conservative, or a born-again Christian Fundamentalist? Not a chance.
The quest for diversity has become bound up tightly with contemporary identity politics and identity politics have in turn become the third rail of modern university discourse. In that discourse, it is an article of near-religious faith, for example, that any unfortunate condition that can be observed among the African American or Hispanic population is the result of racism and a social structure designed to exclude racial minorities from positions of affluence, influence and power.
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Regressives may control academia today, but they cannot stymie the flow of human spirit forever. True Liberalism will prevail over the false pretender.