Mcdonnell, she argues that identity politics is challenging diverse thinking at the collegiate level, this is from 2018. This is a different experience ive been speaking on colleges campuses recently. , you know what that means, i received a walk out the storm this age strategy in southern california, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk, socalled students of color, nearby at Pomona College announced that i was a quote fascist white supremacist trans lobe, queer folk classes and ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produced the lethal condition of which oppressed people are forced to live. So to actually have an audience, is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now we have been hearing a lot about the crisis of free speech on College Campuses, but not much about the root cause. The narcissistic victim ologies that is rapidly spreading from academia to the rest of culture, in a word the American University is in the grips of a mass hysteria. Students actually believe that they are victims of oppression at risk of their lives with racism and sexism. The degree of model and caterwauling is impossible to overstate. At brown, students of color occupy the president s office and complained about having to meet such academic expectations as attending class when they were so focused on staying alive at brown. At yale university, a love of minority students surrounded a highly respected sociologist and cursed and screamed at him for three hours because his wife had sent an email suggesting that students could choose their own Halloween Costume free from the ministrations of yale diversity there were under broadcast center. Among the shouts of shut the f up, i am censoring that and you are disgusting that were directed at this mildmannered leftwing professor was a cry of we are dying, from one of the ranters referring to the allegedly endangered status of yields minority students, but my favorite moment in this parade of narcissism came from princeton. In 2015 princetons black students chanted we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Now, this phrase was first used by fannie lou hamer, Civil Rights Activist who was beaten in the 1950s for trying to vote. Fannie had grounds aplenty for being sick and tired of being sick and tired. But any princeton student, i dont care if he is green, purple or orange who thinks of himself as oppressed is in the grip of a terrible delusion that will encumber him for the rest of his life. Well perhaps, youre thinking, at least the adults on campus are trying to give students a firmer grip on reality, to the contrary, the adults actively encourage the hysteria, massive diversity bureaucracy is devoted to cultivating and students evermore species of selfinvolvement and evermore preposterous forms of selfpity. Do you want to know the reason for astronomical tuition, look no further with the beer bureaucratic bloat, students act out psychodrama of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity, vice of Equity Diversity and inclusion, who use the occasion to expand their dominion. Many campuses have created bias Response Teams, models presumably on active shooter Response Teams on the assumption that is so rampant and lethal that a Rapid Defense force is needed. Freshman orientations and dorm sessions feature seminars and toxic masculinity and white privilege. Students are taught that they are the oppressed or the oppressors. If you are not female, black, hispanic, gay or any of the 116 and still metastasizing categories of gender, the only way that you can escape being an oppressor is by becoming an al ally, allies are something that are usually associated with war and indeed the female students and students of color are literally in a war zone on College Campuses and need allies from the Opposing Side to survive. Am i exaggerating . I am not. Uc Berkeley Division of equity and inclusion hung banners throughout campus reminding students of the unit i universitys paramount mission assigning guilt and innocence and the ruthless competitive totem pole of victimhood. One banner featured a female black student in a hispanic male student allegedly pleading allow people other than yourself to exist, message to berkeleys white students and faculty. This is not her probably, College President s are the worst offenders and encouraging the delusional victim all is a, after the three hour expletive high rate against the yale sociologist, yells president s peter actually thanked the thugs for making him proud of his student body. Yale subsequently justice prize on two of the most aggressive participants. The dean of the Harvard Medical School recently removed the portrait of its greatest physician scientist from the Entrance Hall to the school. You can guess the reason, they were all male. And thus looking on them would make harvards wilting medical students feel uncomfortable and unsafe, we can only wish these budding doctors lock in the operating room. Narcissistic identity politics has destroyed the serious pursuit of knowledge throughout the humanities and most of the social sciences. Students are being given a license for ignorance, all they need to be told about a book is the content and gonads of its author. To know whether they can dismiss this content as thoroughly repugnant and not worth reading. Shakespeare, milton, plato and locke have all been variously demonstrated by students who have not the slightest clue about athens, the renaissance or the enlightenment. A columbia undergraduate browsed about columbias core curriculum, who is this mozart, this hiding, the superior white men, it upholds the premises of White Supremacy and racism. No professor has ever defended her intellectual patrimony against such shameful outbreaks in a static know nothing is him without adding qualifications about respecting diversity. Academic identity politics are now rapidly spreading throughout the culture at large, every nonacademic institution no matter how previously meritocratic is now vulnerable. That is above all the stem fields. Exhibit a in our cultures dissent in an identity driven mediocrity is the firing of computer engineers james to more from google in august 2017. The morehead written a carefully reason factbased memo suggesting that the average career preferences of males and females may explain why theres not a 50 50 gender parity at google and other tech firms, the language that google ceo used in firing is to do more was a direct import from Academic Bank enter victim knowledge. Googles employees were hurting he said, he said to morehead dared to challenge the feminist orthodoxy. A Regional Branch of the National Labor board upheld googles actions on the same drenched victims ground, mr. Damores memo had made googles employees deal unsafe at work, according to the nlrb associate general counsel. The memo does constitute discrimination and sexual harassment. Consider for a moment what this nlrb ruling means for science. Any evolutionary biologist, psychologist or economist who studies the different risk preferences and appetite for Competition Among males and females is now at risk at his job, these branches of science could shut down completely, no matter that their findings are true. The thinking that got mr. Deboer fired is now the dominant characteristic of our time. It holds the absence of exact proportional representation of various racial ethnic and sexual groups in any institution is by definition a result of discrimination. To suggest the different groups have different capacities, cultures, skills and behaviors, that explain the lack of proportional representation is not just taboo, it will get you fired. That was author Heather Mac Donald from 2018, as we continue our look about books about race in america as journalism professor Pamela Newkirk and her presentation she examines whether diversity programs are working in the areas of entertainment, academia and corporate america. What im not optimistic about is White Americas ability to see past the friction of african american, lot next people, the centuriesold demeaning images of people and how that has as much to do with the lack of diversity, and how education systems, what is on museum wal walls, whats in the literature, we are in a toxic culture where people of color are concerned and in a lot of ways, these diversity initiatives is like putting lipstick on a pig, youre trying to address something without addressing the cancer of the culture. Were putting a bandaid upon a gunshot wound on a cancer, that we not have even begun to really, really deal with. Because i know ive been on the faculty at nyu going on 26 years, i am not seeing curricular changes the way that one would expect, in the 1960s, thats what all of those College Protests were about, the faculty of color, the lack of curriculum that addressed the history of race in this country, then presented a more realistic take of america so that White America could understand its complicity in the continuing inequality in the continuing Racial Injustice and until that happens, i am optimistic it can be done and im less optimistic on whether the will to do it. The other amazing part of this book that is over little bit separate from the industry is really about the three fields, academia, journalism and entertainment and what came across to me so strongly that i emailed her at 11 00 oclock a few nights ago, its like these are the fields that are representing the world, and i thought about the me too movement where what we saw in the last couple of years, the men who were being accused or some of the men, a lot of the men were in journalism, they were political journalists, they were telling a story of Hillary Clinton in 2016, charlie rose and matt lauer, Harvey Weinstein actually gave money to Hillary Clinton so it does not follow but these men are telling us our stories and the same is true in much worse for people of color because academia, journalism and entertainment has pushed this narrative. It is a narrative, much of my work, you would know because you know me is concerned with portrayals, i think portrayals, you can draw a Straight Line from these demeaning portrayals to Trayvon Martin to the Police Pulling over someone and they end up dead, just innocent people, last week someone in their home, people in their homes, people think of it as its just a show, just a movie, just the book, no, has reallife consequences for a whole race of people. So all of my work somehow kind of confronts the implications of media portrayals, portrayals and literature, because they have reallife devastating consequences for people of col color. We paid attention in the last few years, but i think we should pay more attention to how the trade builds major universities especially the ivy league but not the ivy league, theres been more attention paid and that is great but when you think about it, i dont mean to sound i naive white person but the more i think about it, it is like that is part of whats going on and you also have all these academics going back into the 19th and 20th, early 20th, not just early, charles murray, almost to the present but these people embedded in academia who were just about the peddling of White Supremacy and scholarship. Then the look at a book like this or look at scholars of color who want to look at the past and connect the dots to where we are. Its like moveon, what does that have to do with anything, are you kidding me. It has everything to do with it. When have we disrupted even the narrative, when have University President s gone before their student, faculty body and said we have been complicit for centuries. The way we have told the story of america, the way we have told the story of africanamericans, the way we have told the story of native americans, who is doing that. Almost no one. It has to start, Everyone Wants a simple solution to this problem, there is no quick fix, its what cyrus murray says, all want driveby diversity, they want something really quick, i didnt interview early today on bloomberg and his leg may be five minutes. How do we do it, write it down. It is not that simple, the American Experience is multilayered, complicated and people want to look at someone like me and say youve made it, what your problem. My problem is that i know that many other people look like we dont get the opportunity, people much brighter, People Better writers, better scholars, who did not get to have the kind of opportunity that i have had and so it has not ended, people thought post race remember. We were just post race, till like two and half years ago. Everybody thought the times, cbs news, probably cnn, we were post race, now its like who, no one is saying that anymore. But we never were, for every achievement, we want to celebrate and we want to stick the flag in the ground and say victory, we won, we won the Civil Rights Movement, it is over, we elected barack obama over, its like no, we had reconstruction, then we have the ku klux klan in the back black codes, then we have the Civil Rights Movement and reagan and all about, we have been for ever will, one stuck on go back and forth. How much do you feel like barack obama brought us donald trump. I feel very strongly backlash to barack obama and just as we did as a backlash to reconstruction in the black governors and senators and congressmen, people were not having, that is where you have the epidemic as you mentioned in black codes, no real living through something similar to that in north america. You are watching the tv on cspan2 with a look of books on race in america. Now here is wall street journal columnist jason reilly from the monthly Interview Program in depth, and december 2019 with his views on the subject. I think there is a tendency to view black history at large typically in america as a history of what whites have done to black, the. Reporter s reasons for various groups that want to keep the narrative alive but in the end i think black history is about more than that, yes racism still exist, i dont know any reasonable person who would argue otherwise in ordway expect to see america vanquished of racism in my lifetime. But i do think the black history is more than that, the question, the more relevant question is what can be done in the face of whatever racism still exist, what was done in the past is in the face of racism, i think that is a relevant story to tell today, that is the message to give to young people today in my fear is that perpetuating this notion its all about victimization and all about racism, youre sending the wrong message to the next generation. Why train school and if the police are out to get you and employers are racist, you syndicate out the door without message, i dont think youre helping much. Have you felt the sting of racism. Certainly, i experienced racism, ive been called names, followed around department stores, i been pulled over by police for no reason that i could understand. You learned about that in detail in washington, d. C. , what happened and where were you. I was doing earne internshipe early 90s in washington, d. C. , i was interning at usaid today and staying with a relative in the area and i was on the sports desk, so we did not leave work in the baseball games on the west coast were over, it was late at night and i was driving to and from my uncles house where i was staying in the usa today headquarters and i had my car which had new york plates because i was from new york although i was driving in d. C. And i was driving home one afterward, it was probably early the next morning sometime after midnight and i hear the sirens blaring and the police pulled me over and one had me out of the car gunpoint and pushed me to the ground in the face away from the car and the rest and i look the description of someone they were after with outofstate plates. What were you thinking. I was terrified, i remember getting back into the car after i left because they seem to be gone as quickly as they came after i realized that was not the right person and just sitting in my car shaking, i remember i had a standard and they could not get it out of gear, my hand was shaking so vigorously, it was terrifying. In washington, d. C. Making headlines three black men 16 years old, 36 years ago and victim of a murder they did not commit, they were just released from jail, what does that tell you about americas criminal Justice System. It is not perfect and i think youd be hardpressed to find a black person of my age who has not experienced the things that ive experienced, i think the criminal Justice System is an improvement today over what used to be in my father and grandfather experienced in this country, but it is still not perfect, i would caution against taking his examples and saying they are typical versus exceptions are aberrations or saying the reason so many blacks are involved in the committal Justice System is because the teresa system per se, i dont see a lot of evidence for that and i think often times we have discussions about the racial makeup of prisons and jails, but we dont talk about the racial makeup of people who perpetrate crime in the country and i dont think you can have one discussion without the other, as imperfect as the criminal Justice System is and has been and continue