Inclusiveness

Commentaries on the war for the transformation of human life and attainment of absolute politically-correct purity:

• To criticize purity is to embrace its opposite. It follows that there can be nothing wrong with the goals of the war. Any problems are due to other factors and the failure to pursue the goals with sufficient singlemindedness.

The new world of tolerance just keeps a-building: in England two social workers lost their jobs because they thought adoptions by homosexual couples (which became legal last November) were a bad thing. It’s not clear from the article whether social workers are required to believe in the wisdom of every legal adoption, or only those … More ...

Multiculturalism takes off! Hospital seeks Klingon interpreter.

A report from the front: The Intimidation Tactics of Homosexual Activists.

More bulletins on the willed abolition of the American mind:

• The ever-useful Phyllis Schlafly presents a list of instances of how zero-tolerance policies are applied in American schools. I’d give examples, but each is worse than the next—just read the column.
• And on the ever-exciting Rick Santorum front,
  1. Ben Shapiro, puzzling like so many over

John Ray, an anti-leftist social scientist in Australia, has a couple of blogs for his academic papers (here and here—I don’t know why he has two). Many of the papers are concerned with debunking social science theories advanced in support of efforts to combat what is called “bigotry.” What he finds in … More ...

The EU ministry of truth in action: Vikings? Such friendly folk, say textbooks. The official story told schoolchildren today, it seems, is that Europe has always been a sort of idealized EU living in happy harmony with its Muslim neighbors.

In the meanwhile, the Canadians have noticed a problem: “We … are terrible in … More ...

Tales of high and low life from the New Europe: In the beau monde, former French prime minister Cresson was charged in connection with a European Union fraud scandal. The lady had apparently given her dentist boyfriend at least $150,000 in EU money. Meanwhile, down in the trenches,

• Turkish children organize reign of

A survey of students, faculty and administrators has now made it possible, even in The New York Times, to make the obvious point that “diversity” in higher education lowers standards and satisfaction for just about everybody. Even the administrators who defend diversity programs so loudly don’t like them much—47.7 percent oppose them, and of … More ...

Some useful background on affirmative action and related issues: Affirmative action’s evolution. One point the article makes that hadn’t occurred to me is that the trigger for the switch from the rhetoric of justice to the rhetoric of diversity was Justice Powell’s tie-breaking opinion in Bakke.

I think the switch would have come … More ...