The amazing ideology of diversity, inclusion and equality is destroying the world of education and business, writes former University of Toronto professor and well-known Canadian thinker Jordan Peterson in an article published in the National Post and reviewed by the Mandiner .
I recently resigned from my position as a professor at the University of Toronto. I am now a professor emeritus, before I even turned sixty. Emeritus is usually a designation reserved for retired faculty members, although only for those who have completed their tenure with certain achievements. I imagined that I would be teaching and doing research at the University of Toronto for the rest of my life until my skeleton had to be dragged out of my office. I loved my job. My students, both undergraduates and graduates, had a positive attitude towards me. It didn't happen what I dreamed. There were many reasons for this, including the fact that I can now teach many more people with much less transfer in the online space. However, there are a few more things:
First, my educated, even highly educated, heterosexual white male graduate students (I've had many others, by the way) have a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite their excellent academic work. This is partly due to diversity, inclusivity and equity quotas (my preferred acronym is DIE – Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity – i.e. DEATH ). They were generally introduced at all universities, despite the fact that university admissions committees already during my career did everything possible to ensure that the applications of qualified "minority" candidates were never ignored. My students also became partially impossible precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata because of my unacceptable philosophical position. This was not just a simple inconvenience, but something that made my job morally unsustainable.
The second reason is the consequence of the shocking ideology that is currently destroying our universities and ultimately our entire culture. Simply because, at the moment, there aren't enough trained "BIPOC" (BIPOC: black, indigenous and people of color. Ed.) people to meet the set diversity goals with such speed. This was common knowledge to anyone in college who had even served on an admissions committee in the past three decades. This means that we want to create a generation of researchers who are completely unfit for work. We can already see what this means in the horrendous feedback that comes to students who are excluded. This view, along with the death of objective testing, has so severely compromised universities that it can no longer be ignored. What is happening at the universities presents everything in a different light than what we previously imagined.
All my unfortunate colleagues have to make a »DIE« statement in order to receive a research grant. They are all liars (except for the minority of true believers) and they teach their disciples to do the same. They keep doing this with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting an already amazingly corrupt system. Some of my colleagues even allow themselves to attend so-called "anti-bias training" given by terribly untrained "human resources professionals" who lecture mindlessly and easily accuse the theoretically pervasive racist/sexist/heterosexist attitudes. Such training is now often a prerequisite for someone to hold a teaching position or to participate in an admissions committee...
…This is not only present in universities. Not only in professional colleges. And in Hollywood. And in the corporate world. Diversity, inclusivity, and equity—the radical leftist trinity—are destroying us. Curious about the division that plagues us right now? Don't just watch until DIE. Wondering what makes Trump so attractive? Look no further than DIE. When does the left go too far? When we pray at the altar of DIE and insist that they just leave us alone, it's not our fault. Now enough. Enough. Enough.
The entire article can be read HERE
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