This whole diversity (and equity and inclusion) mantra is a disaster.
Authored by DSr. James Allan: ‘Diversity is our strength.’
One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly.
Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of
higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even
matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the
hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write
that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow
delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just
better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed
themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions
of feminism. Sure, those spouting these ‘diversity is a panacea’
nostrums never cash out the claim. They never tell us precisely
how ‘diversity’ is making society better or wealthier or more unified.
We are all just supposed to take it on faith, as it were.
We’re
just to believe the bureaucratic, political and various professional
bodies’ elites who push this line, and believe it simply because they
are the ones telling us it’s so.
But you and I both know there isn’t a lot of evidence to support this cliché.