Why diversity training on campus is likely to
disappoint
“The main beneficiaries of the forthcoming explosion
in diversity programming will be the swelling ranks of “diversity and
inclusion” consultants who stand to make a pretty penny. A one-day training
session for around 50 people costs anywhere between US$2,000 and $6,000. Robin
DiAngelo, the best-selling author of “White Fragility,” charges up to $15,000
per event.
In this belt-tightening era of COVID-19, should
colleges and universities really be spending precious dollars on measures that
have been “proven to fail”?
In our view, instead of pouring money into diversity
training, colleges and universities would be better off using their limited
resources to provide increased financial aid and better academic support
systems for underrepresented students.”
The Princeton Faculty’s Anti-Free-Speech Demands
Does the white upper class feel exhausted and
oppressed by meritocracy?
Ross Douthat notes:
“And wouldn’t it be especially appealing if — and here
I’m afraid I’m going to be very cynical — in the course of relaxing the demands
of whiteness you could, just coincidentally, make your own family’s position a
little bit more secure?
For instance: Once you dismiss the SAT as just a tool
of white supremacy, then it gets easier for elite schools to justify excluding
the Asian-American students whose standardized-test scores keep climbing while
white scores stay relatively flat. Or again: If you induce inner-city charter
schools to disavow their previous stress on hard work and discipline and
meritocratic ambition, because those are racist, too — well, then their
minority graduates might become less competitive with your own kids in the
college-admissions race as well”.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our
Government Segregated America