Posted on 12/08/2018 1:57:54 AM PST by Candor7
This is a rush transcript from "Life, Liberty & Levin," December 2, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
MARK LEVIN, HOST: Hello America, I am Mark Levin, this is "Life, Liberty & Levin" with our great guest, Heather Mac Donald, how are you?
HEATHER MAC DONALD, FELLOW, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: Fine, thank you, Mark. Thank you for having me on.
LEVIN: Well, you have a BA and MA in English. You have a JD. You are a lawyer, but you are a scholar in so many areas -- race relations, immigration, policing in colleges and universities. And this is where I really wanted to delve in with you. You have a new book, "The Diversity Delusion: How race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture." This so relevant today, and you that argue toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance and widened division in our larger culture. And I think we see this everywhere now.
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Heather MacDonald warns US colleges are breeding hate
Author of 'The Diversity Delusion' breaks down the rise of intolerance on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'
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Book " Diversity Illusion" by Heather MacDonald available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Delusion-Pandering-University-Undermine/dp/1250200911
This is one of the most important and powerful books of this year. It describes in detail how universities convert students into radical non thinkers, and how to solve the problem of the dehumanizing of America.
Ping to brilliant authoress.
A review of MacDonald’s new book “Diversity Delusion”:
Should be required reading by all US university faculty and administrators
September 8, 2018
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
As in my “intro”, this book should be required reading for ALL faculty and administrators on US campuses. I literally read it in one sitting - a rarity for me to do with a non-fiction book. A cliché most certainly but I have an interest in this sector for several reasons. One is as part of a past multi-career life, I served as a tenured professor at a large US SE university. Second I just revisited my own effete New England campus for my 50th reunion that was prefaced with my letters to fund raisers “why” my donations have and will remain minimal citing many of the author’s themes along with attending alumni lectures that attempted to justify so much of what is examined in this book.
Ms Mac Donald adroitly puts “facts” to the fiction, failures and misdirection of so much of the nonsense now occurring on campuses (and very expensive failures too) instead of the actual work of education. Included are data driven critiques of the never ending quest for diversity (and THE big business of this venture), the often destructive nature of these policies, the extrapolations to society at large of this non-stop emphasis, examining the “rape culture” that is said to be pervasive and so forth. And sadly in many ways it is a poignant eulogy for higher education in our country with nostalgic remembrances and allusions to the loss of what is now discarded from curricula given its centuries of formulations of bodies of academic work by a “ patriarchy of white heteronormative males ( I think I got the nomenclature right ?). The writer certainly has a strong base for this comparative lament given her own personal education pedigree of elite universities - Yale, Cambridge and Stanford.
I have a friend who is now a trustee at my old college and I will recommend that he do just this - ask the faculty and administrators that he meets in those lofty interactions. But the predictable reaction ? I say they’ll recoil with crossed fingers and garlic cloves around their necks with a silver spike ready to go In fact I would expect THE same type of reaction to this book “on campus” as Ms Macdonald received in her attempts to speak in the University of California system as she describes. She too will be “Amy Wax-ed” or whacked ( read the book ) but this time with book burnings of her work on campus. It would be so consistent of current campus times and the hypocritical respect for diversity of thought and tolerance supposedly resident in these environments.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1250200911/ref=acr_dpx_see_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
ping
I wrote a much longer diatribe and deleted it after experiencing the catharsis as well as the reality check that retirement is entirely too close to screw up now. The best I can do is a strongly-voiced “DITTO!” and make plans to purchase the book.
Harvard Business School professor: Half of American colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years
Good
Make it so.
My guess is that state schools will be “too big to fail.”
Indoctrination centers are far to valuable....
bkmk
For a while; then they’ll go the way of the Cruz and the Volt
The Prostitutions of Higher “Education” have become America’s Hate Headquarters. Hate America? Hate White People? Hate EVERYTHING? “College” is for you!
Sadly some churches too.
Colleges and universities are teaching hate speech, hate America and hate liberty and freedom. We've all known this for sometime, unless you are Patrick the Starfish living under a rock in Bikini Bottom.
The salient question here is how did this happen and how is the Right going to change it?
The Left for decades has known that to gain control over the country's population, all you have to do is control the media (check), control the institutions of higher learning (check) and control who counts the votes in elections (check).
They have had and continue to have, control over these entities. But the Right just keeps making note of it and being outraged at it and angry by it but never take any action to reverse the trend.
This is why we will eventually lose this country as founded. Not because we don't love it or because we're patriots.
We'll lose it because the Left has a long-range goal to take over the US and they will persist in their efforts until that goal is achieved.
In the meantime, the Right keeps making observations and revelations about what is happening, like a bystander on the corner, but have taken no action to counteract what the Left is doing.
We will go out with a whimper and not with a bang. It will be over before we realize it.
The salient question here is how did this happen and how is the Right going to change it? >>>>>>
Yes, that’s what the book is about old chap.
She is exactly right. I have seen first-hand, in my students’ assignments, and their online videos, that state universities in CA are propagating an ideology of victimhood, and hatred of America. They want to tear down the current structures so that they can build a new progressive political structure where they are totally in charge.
Like Saul Alinsky taught, you have to “rub the sore raw.” They are making students discontent with the current situation so that they will be open to the promises of progressives concerning creating a new and improved situation. The profs are simply community agitators/organizers, just like Obama was.
I am confident that the LIEberals will overreach their “mandate” and the American people will peacefully revolt and throw them out of office in 2020!
I beg to differ with you!
There will be a hot civil war before that happens!
It is not quite time to shoot the bastards, but it is looming closer!
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