Diversity

May 31, 2013 — Steven Hayward

Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist? (Chapter 3)

Featured image We have commented before about the Sensitivity Police who use electron microscopes to spot the most minuscule trace of racism wherever it can be found, such as this Volkswagen ad, and this ad for the Discovery Card.  Here’s the latest entry in the Racism Overreaction Playbook: a Cheerios ad featuring a mixed-race couple (below), which you would think would receive the approval of the Multidiversiculturalites.  But apparently it has caused »
May 31, 2013 — Steven Hayward

When “Diversity” Means Conformity

Featured image I wrote here the other day about how “diversity” has become a latter-day Stalinist concept, when it doesn’t imply downright hate from the left, just as “multiculturalism” is cover for self-loathing of Western civilization rather than a genuine curiosity about what might be learned from other cultures.  (I think it was Allan Bloom who pointed out, for example, how few of the devotees of “multiculturalism” actually bother to learn a »
May 24, 2013 — Steven Hayward

When “Diversity” = Hate

Featured image If memory serves, Irving Kristol once remarked that the term “peace,” as it was used by the left, “is a Stalinist concept,” since the intent of the so-called “peace movement” was the unilateral disarmament of the West and the triumph of Communism.  Today the term “diversity” works the same way: it has become a term meaning the opposite of its dictionary meaning, and is a vehicle for racial division and »
March 10, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Dartmouth contemplates hitting a new low

Featured image Charlotte Johnson, Dartmouth’s Dean of the College, says that Dartmouth is considering a distributive requirement or some sort of mandatory course focused on diversity and inclusion. Clearly, Johnson has in mind a course that touts the value of diversity and inclusion. But wait. Dartmouth grants racial preferences to ensure that its undergraduate population is “diverse” and “inclusive.” And by all accounts, including my daughter’s, Dartmouth succeeds in creating a racially »
January 10, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Holder to stay on as Attorney General

Featured image Roll Call reports that “despite being the first attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress, Eric Holder intends to stay in his post for the foreseeable future.” According to Roll Call, “Holder had been expected to step down relatively early into President Barack Obama’s second term.” But no such luck. There’s a certain logic to Holder’s retention. Obama has made a series of in-your-face nominations — Chuck »
January 9, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Time to dial up some diversity

Featured image Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has handed in her resignation, bringing an end to an undistinguished tenure. Solis was the first Hispanic woman to lead a major federal agency, and her departure will leave Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as the only Hispanic in President Obama’s cabinet. Moreover, Obama has just nominated white males for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, and CIA Director. Expect him to use »
December 20, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff

Diversity, or whatever it takes

Featured image In its editorial opposing Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, the Washington Post wrote: Mr. Obama has available other possible nominees who are considerably closer to the mainstream and to the president’s first-term policies. Former undersecretary of defense Michèle Flournoy, for example, is a seasoned policymaker who understands how to manage the Pentagon bureaucracy and where responsible cuts can be made. She would bring welcome diversity as the nation’s first »