Heather Mac Donald | The Diversity Delusion
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- The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She earned a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. in English from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She writes for several newspapers and periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Criterion, and Public Interest, and is the author of four books, including The War on Cops: How The New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
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Don’t ever let a college try and convince you that it is diverse. When the administration says it’s diverse, it is focused on diversity in color, not diversity in thought.
There are people of different political views on all college campuses.
@@BallinNQnz My comment was meant to stretch beyond politics. If anything, the colleges have gotten too political, and to one side, and not in a healthy way. If you look at any of their diversity agendas you'll see it's focused on physical traits, and not diversity in thought. Personally, I don't think it should be about color at all. And if so, the only color colleges should be focused on is gray, which is the color of the cerebral cortex in which they should be stimulating.
@@anccert but representation matters. They need people of various backgrounds in order to give others a chance.
Wow! Yes!
@@BallinNQnz Yep, I've heard that said before by the people peddling that agenda. It's a polite way of saying, "you're only as valuable to us as your skin color." How exactly is admitting me based on my skin color and not my academic performance going to give others a chance?
If I'm a poor performing student, then I'm only going to perform more poorly upon admittance, unless I catch a break for my skin color. I'm then conditioned to underachieve in hopes of a handout, and then cry foul if the handout no longer comes.
Years ago I stopped focusing on peoples intentions and instead focused on the outcomes of their intentions. People's intentions can be nefarious/self-congratulatory, such as, look at this inferior person of color I just helped. Or the intention can be a noble one, yet the outcome can be dismal towards that person.
Eventually, they'll get bored and tired of helping you for a new noble cause and pet project. It's always best to help yourself. If you found yourself in caught up in their agenda, find someway to turn it around to benefit yourself. I could say, at least use them as they are using you, but I see no value in becoming like them.
It is absolutely horrible that I'm listening to her from Chile and whatever she's saying applies here too. The world has gone mad.
Because it's the globalist agenda, we gotta push back against this madness.
Yessiree, Bob.
Hola, en Chile ya somos un pais woke globalista
It was always mad - this is the result when narcissist psychopaths get absolute control and people refuse to stop them.
2 Timothy ...explains
This was 4 years ago! I had no idea at that time about the woke culture, and she was already right on. Thank you Heather M, what an incredible woman and a visionary woman!
Listening to this woman speak is like listening to an A+ essay in real time.
She made the most out of the Yale experience to earn her B.A. in English.
DIVERSITY has become code for PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF RACISM. Even as a black man I can see that. Diversity of thought is what matters! The mind is actually the one place we can all challenge each other if we decide. Amazing that so many think the way to rid this world of racism is strictly by judging EVERYONE and putting them in order by the color of their skin.
Thank you. It's so apparent that's its mind boggling how many cannot recognize this.
I blame the social lemmings that the internet has created. No one is allowed to think or analyze what is in front of their faces at the risk of being branded racist or transphobic. Thoughts and feelings have replaced fact finding.
@@damnlimpnickis509 Get off social media. We need to have these conversations IN person. And rational women and minorities need to push back on this racist, sexist nonsense in person. We need to have courage. White people and men don't deserve to be maligned for their race or gender. Leftists are worse than the racists they claim to hate.
Gib
Utter rubbish
"America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
Chrys Milhouse , I bet Lincoln did not know that the U.S. would allow so many immigrants to stay. Why did we do it ? Other countries haven’t.
Dont let it happen! Destroy diversity!!
Humpty Dumpty Love illegals you mean..he would have welcomed hard working and assimilated legal immigrants
TallDark Handsome , no, I meant immigrants. Diversity has ruined this country. Are you really tall, dark, and handsome ?
He helped set up federalism
I could listen to Heather all day it’s like breathing fresh air. Finally some sanity.
Let me guess you're a born again Christian.
Which would mean you've given up reason.
Do believe in an adolescent belief system
This woman is so much stronger than so many men! So thankful she is telling the truth about our sick society!
You're missing her point, being a strong *woman* shouldn't be celebrated, being a strong person should be celebrated. She wants us to stop categorizing people by race and gender and recognize individuals.
You are part of the problem, not the solution.
Because she's never had a man take a bullet abroad for her freedom.
"than so many men"?? With all due respect, you are missing the point entirely. It is WOMEN who are driving the denigration and degradation of normalcy.
@@chrisbrunner1174 you are talking about Hilsdale college in the first place. They are ironically their own echo chamber. The questions in the audience didn't poke holes in her argument, everyone just nodded and said yes
Don't forget, these crazy students don't just disappear... they go into the workforce and bring that mindset with them.
HR and diversity committees.
They go EVERYWHERE and bring that mindset with them. They are LAUNCHED out there to change 'the world' and bias it against white people. It's actually just racism.
No,Isaidposse scary asf
Yep! They're totally illogical and can't even recognizes their errors....very difficult to work with them.
Yes they do they are the future!
I am absolutely speechless! This speaker was epic! She was right on the money. We need more people brave enough to speak as she does!
The mark of the beast is coming soon
@@VicUsrey You people are funny. Did you know that the oldest manuscripts of the bible, have the beast a different number. The mark was 616... not 666. People have been waiting for this to happen for centuries. When will you learn??
@@VicUsrey Ms. Mac Donald would absolutely reject your religious insanity. Just watch her discussion with Jordan Peterson. Rationality and Clarity are her wares. The only coming apocalypse is the climate crisis. Feel free to volunteer at the recycling center or start carpooling if you're so concerned about the beast.
@The Dude, Diversity is a sickness...a destructive idea designed to destroy white civilization. Believe it.
@The Dude GROW UP
We need more people brave enough to speak as she does!
This is where it started, at the universities. We’re all on campus now. I really hope we can still do something about this.
Me and my weapons guarantee that something will be done.
It’s starting to seem like it’s too late. I guess we just sit back and wait for the collapse now.
Mao solved this during the Cultural Revolution when he closed down the schools and universities and marched the professors off to work in in fields and factories!
A hundred years ago our teenage great grandfathers were fighting the most savage war in history. The first global mechanical war in history. Now our teenagers are crying about how hard they have it.
Wait till we have to go to war with the russkies! The thin skinned delusional brats will be blasted into a catatonic state if they survive the radiation.
@bby bok choyI had to fix your comment: "Decadence and spoilt rich privileges does that".
Both generations ruled by Anti Christ Jews.
Those idiot great grandfathers of ours fought on the wrong side of those wars and that is the root of all the problems facing the world today. If you're any example nothing has been learned in the hundred years so you're doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
So glad I persuaded my daughter not to go to university (UK). She is now 22 and self-employed with her own little rented flat (apartment) and nobody's fool. She would have as little time for these whinging babies as I do. So proud of her.
"The adults on campus." I would expect *everyone* on campus, unless they're child geniuses, to be adults. The fact that they are adult students and are treated, and behave like, children, is an indictment of society and parenting.
Excellent point by Heather - the key issue is not freedom of speech it is the climate of victimology. It’s aim is to first censor one’s thinking.
No its about not being judgemental or having bigoted views about people
Not all free speech is good
@Google Sucks Ass there is no such thing as a perfectly just society. We are scraping the bottom of the barrel though when it comes to, "injustice."
This is beyond BRILLIANT ---Bravo
Heather !!
THANK YOU, Hilldale College! This is a voice of reason in a desert of Cultural Marxism. The contrast of a Culture of Life (the Christian West) and a Culture of Death (Marx, Lenin, Militant Atheism, etc.) couldn't be more obvious!
I am from Russia and both cults of masochistic Christianity and Marxism now coexist in schyzophrenic fusion.
All the rituals of communists in USSR coincide with Christianity ones.
Lenin's corpse cult is exactly the same as cristian saints' corpses cults.
@Google Sucks Ass The core idea is diving ppl into "opressed" and "oppressors". Basically it is a sly method to create eternal conflict within society. In Russia they killed all layers of Russian society.
Russian revolution was war of minorities against "oppressors". First they killed aristocracy and bourjois, then they killed the clergy, then they killed "rich" peasants, villiagers, so they exterminated all the educated Russians and favored agressive tribes.
Now we are watching the end of this drama: Ukranians trying to finish the rest of Russian nation.
@Google Sucks Ass you'll find that leftists love it and right wingers hate it. Figure it out.
@Google Sucks Ass division beyond class. POC vs white, Men vs women, LGBTQ vs straight, etc etc etc
Glad to see there's another adult trying to counter the "diversity" insanity.
Absolutely!
Diversity insanity? There is nothing wrong with people of different races, nationalities, religions, etc.... on a college campus.
@@BallinNQnz yeah , just NO WHITE PEOPLE !!!
ESPECIALLY WHITE MIDDLE AGED WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES !! they hurt too many feelings , that is tantamount to terrorism!! To trigger a liberal is assault..... THE PUSSIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Hey ,that's DOUBLE WHITE , that's hurtful
@@peterherard8207 white people will be around. White people still have all the power. Do u oppose interracial marriage?
If only everyone would listen to this wonderful presentation. I thank God that there are still people with hearts and minds that can see the truth.
Your comment is on target, yet rather ironic.
Ya but what does she know? she's just a woman. (I'm kidding!)
Excellent book. Diversity is, everyone looks different but thinks the same. It’s all a fool’s errand.
Amazing insights and understanding. Thank you Dr. MacDonald.
Agreed. I second your comments. I look forward to more insights from Dr Mac Donald.
Ted Sess the insight didn’t include the cause of all this. Ashkenazim think tanks
Amazing insights???
Not to anyone with a brain who has not accepted the brainwashing propaganda!
The diversity delusion is very much at the heart of the matter in this Harvard university race base affirmative action case that exclude Asians American in this country it goes against the ideal of fairness and equality in this country
A year or two ago I was listening to Wisconsin Public Radio interview the Dean of Social Justice at UW-Madison. He was black and stated that there was racism on the UW campus. When asked for an example, this is what he said: "I was on an elevator the other day and there was a poster for a visiting dance group from China. Someone had drawn a mustache on one of the Chinese dancers." I swear to God!
Public radio is where I heard a sociologist from a historically Black college stating that thievery was good for the economy, because the goods stolen went into pawn shops where the "urban poor" can afford to shop, and the "rich" people victimized got their money back from the insurance companies, so everybody wins.
That's as self serving as a Nazi talking about how good White supremacy is.
Blessings to you Miss Heather keep doing what you’re doing 🤗🙏
THis is what happens when you have a bunch of people whose lives are too easy and they are given anything they want if they pitch a fit.
People like Heather MacDonald have such a sense of entitlement.
Yeah, like White people.😁😁😁😁
Like the boomers for example , who owe 200% of their lives to the greatest generation?
@@richardckennard Ha!!! Ha!!!! good one!!
Yeah, cuz poverty is so easy, right?
as a former teacher I thank Heather Mac Donald from the bottom of my heart! I wish more professors, teachers and other people working in the system of education join her at the return to the normalcy.
Outstanding conversation. Thank you.
I am a Firefighter and First Responder.
It is very beneficial to be able to read above a grade 12 level. I have seen so many candidates yet hire so few. Competence is what matters.
I feel that when you fill out a college application there shouldn’t be any race or color on that application. Then we will be able to finally pick people the best for the job of going to college. Not everyone needs to go to college. We need more people in trade schools than in college.
“Than” in college!
The Australian Public Service decided to use blind applications in order to increase diversity, no sex, no age, no ethnicity, just the raw qualifications and experience for the position.
Too many white men were hired so they canned it.
Diversity is good as long as you give all the jobs to white people. Right?
@@rcchristian2 Not at all, I live in Australia, I love our diversity and I’m happy to see more but I’m not convinced reverse discrimination is the answer, equal opportunity without discrimination is the answer.
I’m happy for encouragement and education programs but at the job coal face lowering standards has the potential to do great harm.
My goodness, she is such great fighter. And her writing is so good.
I remember hearing Bill Clinton say "our strength depends on our diversity" WRONG, our strength depends on our unity
The very essence of e pluribus unom united we stand divided we fall
The fact is, societies with the lowest crime and poverty rates, as well as the highest happiness index, are homogenous. Diversity, when forced, is the greatest threat to society.
If diversity is strength why do we utilize so much unified things? Build houses with diverse materials and diverse sizes of length and thickness - use paper, wood, aluminum, iron and steel along with other materials as we want to ensure a large diverse acceptance of building materials - lets all agree on this when building every house and office including skyscrapers from now onward
@@FickYT That's about the dumbest comment I've read today.
that is one of our Canadian idiot prime minister trudeau's favorite sayings....his father started diversity in Canada declaring we were becoming multicultural in the late 60's, whatever that meant. Now we know and it's been a failure in many ways and a success only when immigrants assimilate and become Canadian. There are many who choose not to assimilate and one wonders why they chose to come here. Now trudeau 2 has strapped on the immigration turbo jets and our society is morphing right in front of our eyes....the media will not talk about it and why would they when the corrupt liberal government is handing out money for "positive" reporting and they are also signing the UN global migration pact which compels our media to report only in a positive framework on the topic of migration and "irregular" migration (they use irregular instead of illegal).
Love love LOVE Heather Mac Donald. SO much common sense and truth. People should be shocked and appalled by what they hear to the point they take up arms against these college regimes!
Thank God for Heather MacDonald speaking the truth. Takes courage. I give her full credit and hope she continues to speak up
Thank GOD for this woman.
I'm about the same age. I had been saying that I thought we got over all of this in the 60's, and 70's. We don't care about gender or race but qualifications! I was taught that if I work hard and put my best foot forward I can achieve anything.
Great talk. Thank you!
Unearned favoritism based on race is the very definition of racism... and that is supposed to fix racism and inequality???
It's time to end the insanity!!!
I disagree. You have to see things through the lens of time. Back in the Sixties when the policies were introduced, popular public opinion toward minorities was atrocious. Its been the affirmative actions that led to the wholesale changes in our public's perceptions of them. With the influx of non-White immigrants into our culture and mainstream, the workplace is more equitable. (maybe too much, but better than before) It may be time to reverse. or scale back these changes, but the strides would not have been realized without our efforts of inclusion during a time when Jim Crow ruled the hearts and minds of America.
Daniel Elofer the crux of intersectionality. But they can’t see it.
J OneLife the biggest benefactors of affirmative action are white women
@Angoche Island white people love to play victim (especially white women). But of course, white women being the biggest benefactors of affirmative action cannot fit into their victim mentality.
TRUMP/CANCER 2020
I am Asian. Thanks God for having you speaking the truth. Echoing what Martin Luther King said...I have a dream. It’s the contents of your character you’ll be judged not your colors of your skin (something like that). Qualifications is everything to be hired on job not diversity BS. I hoped your message will grow backbones to our leaders in every aspect of our society not political correctness. Otherwise, corruption becomes a norm as what we have now.
Academic Victimology. I have felt this for such a long time. It takes all the joy out of being a professor. If students are that delicate, stay home with mommy.... she can make you a num-num sandwich and pour you some chocolate milk.
So you are ok with victimising people?
A lot of these kids don’t have present or attentive parents, that’s the problem. Arrested development.
@@MrHighlander1963 These people victimised themselves.
@@MrHighlander1963 OMG are you that brainwashed you spew out complete rubbish like "so you are OK with victimizing people". WTF are you serious? Gaslight much do you?
@@MrHighlander1963 Explain your idiotic and irrelevant question. Who did he victimize and how did you draw that ridiculous conclusion from his comment?
Excellent speech. Bravo for having the courage to stand up against the prevailing idiocy.
@ Walter I can’t wait. It’s just the catalyst we need to create solidarity across our race. And when we do we’ll be unstoppable.
You're a pile of human garbage Ron, way to go.
Ron Micci but not enough courage to name Ashkenazim think tanks as the root cause
Totally agree Ron. It was fascinating, Heather Mac Donald is excellent.
@walter white dear white guilty its open season for white in South Africa go look on YT Lauren Southern Farmland to inform yourself
Heather Mac Donald is a national treasure.
Holy crap this lady is bloody awesome. Luca. I will watch every video she is in
Totally agree ! This female is switched on!
Reminds me of Thomas Sowell's observation that he next time an academic touts the importance of diversity, ask him/her how many Republicans or conservatives are in the sociology department at their school.
nycsym great point..diversity is only skin color and gender for the insane libs
What a breath of fresh air this lady is
Imagine logic, and common sense. BRILLIANT!!
I could never express my ideas and feelings around 'diversity' as succinctly as she does. Thank goodness for voices like hers, and thank goodness videos like this are up on youtube. A few years ago I returned to college to collect a few prerequisites so I could be admitted to graduate school. I was astonished at the level to which everything had sunk. I felt like I was in grade school. Not kidding! For example, teachers constantly reminded kids to do the homework, continuously explain how grades are determined, but then making exceptions and granting 'extra credit' options to the slouchers who had difficulty with adult-like expectations. Of course, teachers were often in competition with the smart phone, which many students seemed to go back to, when they got bored with the lecture, which was about every other minute. We are truly living in challenged times.
Heather Mac Donald is a great hero.
Graeme Roberts she speaks truth just like Peterson and Shapiro. It's exactly why liberals hate all of them. They can't handle the truth.
she said not one thing original. She also avoids the fact that there is nothing wrong with identity politics ... what is wrong / broken is multiculturalism and non whites living in a White Christian culture for the economic opportunity despite the culture / people it took to build it.
She sounds like a Scottish Hamburger.
the Bible and a beer since you’re adamantly of the opinion that she offers nothing of merit to say, can you please explain your own position so that people who aren’t aware enough of all the issues can be privileged to another perspective?
Outstanding hard-hitting reality. She nailed it.
Thank you Heather Mac Donald, what a brilliant speech!!!
26:30 This is the part that always gets SJWs all riled up. Heather isn't saying blacks aren't smart enough, what she's saying is that dumb programs like Affirmative Action place black students in schools based on quotas, not performance, simply because of their skin color. Many blacks are against these programs too: Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Jason Riley. I am a white female who was an honor student in high school, but if I had been told I was accepted into MIT, I would never have accepted because I know I would fail. I'm not MIT equipped. You have to place kids in colleges that are on par with their test scores and abilities, not just throw them in Ivy League schools to make yourself feel morally superior.
My next door neighbor worked day and night to earn his IT degrees and was up for a scholarship and it was given to a black student with lower scores. Text book discrimination.
Sara Romero ohhh they’re dumb, dummmmmmmmb
"Affirmative Action" is Hasbarah Jewfemism for "Negative Tackle"
If Mass-Immigration Mercenary-Proxy-Invasion is shoved down our throats (Christians' Virtues, namely Compassion Used / Instrumentalized to inhibit opposition, the Ad-Misericordiam pharisaic phallacy. The dead Syrian boy at the beach - because his father needed 1st class german dentistry, not pulling a tooth).
JewSury (and its "Sinister" / Left hand (Marx, Trotsky, Soros, ) will Sniff and use any VULNERABILITY, be it Virtue, Vice, Quality, Defect, etc, to tackle, and get his target PREY by the JEWGULAR.
While capable White-Christians are bared from the best colleges (ex-Christian Seminars), Jews are far over-represented in, both as Students and Professors.
Germans were complaining for the same, in the 1880's, half a century after they had been "enfranchised", given all Christian Cytizens's rights.
Things only got worse when Lord Rothschild decided he wanted to conquest the USA and Is-a-Hell.
He pushed the Progroms in hated usury-proof Tzarist-Russia to:
a) Stir (time-proof) Jewish Sectarian anti-Russian hate.
b) Push Jewish Hostile-Usurpatory-Predary-Parasitic-Inmigration into Germany and USA. Apparently in the USA, adhering and controling the Demo(n's)Cratic Party was part of the plan.
Saludos
Angel Ruiz
There are good studies on the Dropout rates of certain minority freshman at MIT. They themselves will tell you in exit interviews what it's like to be a very smart 95th percentile student who is thrust into a classroom with 25 students at the 99 and 1/2 percentile. Not fun, not fair, and the Freshman minority Dropout rates tell this story.
The race is fair not only if the starting points are same but also if the conditions throughout the race are same. Most people who end up in Ivy Leagues have had good education at school and guidance from educated parents. Underprivileged students, however, come from tough background with little family support. A twig can help them swim through.
What do you guys think if univ's base admissions on equal opportunities? Like income level & parental status at home & access to quality resources.
"When you aim at equality, you are letting A and B decide what C will do for D... and take a commission along the way." Milton Friedman
My God this woman's work is so important. What a gift.
I like her shedding more light on the insanity out there!
Must be the one you fostered.
@@rolandfoto6226 what???? Are you BROWN????
@@rolandfoto6226 (slow clap)
You’re an idiot 👍🏻
The Executioner look at the name..definitely a white hating brownie
Europe was already diverse, in Sweden we had Swedes, in Germany we had Germans, in France we had French, in Italy we had Italians, in Greece we had Greeks, NONE of those people look the same,how diverse eh?.
Andrew Blackadder exactly right. The biggest lie of the inane libs is that all whites look and act and think the same. As you said Italians and Greeks are quite different even though they're basically neighbors geographically.
Good words
You must be using the old meaning of ‘diverse’. In those days, it meant ‘different’. Now, it means ‘oppressed negroes’ and you must cower at its very mention or be deemed a racist.
It's too bad Europe somehow got the idea that it's immoral for French people to be the majority in France.
@@oldschool7207
It's just more leftists HOG wash in the name of redistribution and population control
How refreshing to see an intellectual standard from both speaker and audience.
I laughed out loud numerous times in the first 10 minutes.
then I realized it was all completely true. every word of it. brilliant speech tragic reality.
BRAVA!!!!! Heather McDonald a true American….
Thank you…..
Thank you so much, Heather. Its a real tragedy that the people who need your message the most arent trying to listen...
The Frankfurt School of critical theory.
It explains every aspect of insanity seen in America today. There is no other.
hahaha who knew we would find a REEEEEEEE frankfurt maniac in these comments? Oh, me, that's who.
Cultural Marxism obfuscates classical communism and class struggle behind a smokescreen of identity politics so as to make it less off-putting to the useful idiots that promote far left ideology.
Snowflakes would have great trouble identifying with the killing fields of Cambodia, the gulag holocaust or the fact that the so called 'nazis' were in fact yet another lethal experiment in socialism.
If you have not been victimized by someone or something, in this world, you have not lived. NOT IN THIS CLIMATE!
Love how she mocked the hysterical students that claim they are literally trying to survive on their elite campus
Brilliant speech needs to be played on a loop every night on TV
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind
phiAndpi Hosea 8:7
Heather MacDonald says what every logical human being is thinking .
So will you consider yourself logical too. Please tell me not...
It's crazy this lecture was 4 years ago... one would think we would've done something about it but it's literally getting worse and worse
I fell in love with the speaker. I haven't heard a woman speak like this for many years. I have been living around liberals for the last 20 years. They made me sick and discouraged to wake up in the morning.
Me too -- she's a great successor to Camille Paglia and Janice Fiamengo.
oops, she is 8 yrs older than Janice.
How honest talk.
Well, the alternative to waking up in the morning is worse...
I too am the sickened by their weakness comrade
We are loaning money to students to get degrees that qualify them for jobs that don’t exist, then these same students can not pay back the loans.
And we do it continuously!
There had to be someone that steps forward and stops this.
Maybe if technical colleges were more available to school leavers, they could learn the necessary skills to bring full production back into Western countries
This would provide more employment opportunities as well as keeping the greens happy by not transporting materials and goods backwards and forwards across the planet
We did it to ourselves look at the political Spectrum right vs left our forefathers would be ashamed of what this country has become
I mean they would but the two party fighting probably wouldn't be as bad to them as all the equal rights legislation
@C C Gender and sex are two different things, friend. Every reputable sociologist and psychologist agrees on this. Gender is the expression of one's identity, sex is what you are biologically.
My college days are long, long over, but I wish I could do it again and go to Hillsdale. I am convinced it is the best college in America 🇺🇸
The woman who bought my Grandmother's house, back in the 90's, told me that as a Professor in Criminal Law at Penn State, she had to have 50% of her freshmen class take remedial English prior to allowing them to attend her lectures!
Simply incredible that the literary giants cannot be presented because students of color feel "unsafe". The racism are from those that cry racism. Education is now more about identity politics than actually gaining knowledge and skills. We are literally dumbing down America at every level. When criminals are now pandered to and the law of the land is driven by ultra hypocritical and delusional children, we are inevitably marching toward a critical mass and it will not end well.
Are we as a society heading for a modern dark age.
lucien Taar Looks like it.
If both sides can't agree to discuss the problems with a level head.... most certainly.
lucien Taar, Undoubtedly.
Camille Paglia and Jordan Peterson discussed how similar we are to the late Roman Republic.
yes 100%
Thank God they're still at one School teaching the truth
I attended a community college in 2020-2021. It was DEI crazy for sure! It was extremely difficult to attend in light of the luncay.
Well said - this victimhood notion is just nauseating
Professor Macdonald- thank you for your fearless honesty, your profound integrity and your service to the United States. The woke ideology must be destroyed.
I'm a relatively uneducated man, left school at 14 because i knew i wasn't up for, or capable of the rigors of higher education. So i did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. I don't understand why people, because of their colour/race are given the opportunity to go to uni etc, yet they clearly don't have the smarts or work ethic that is required for uni. Not all of us can go to unis, some of us must do the manual work, why has this logic (logic in my mind at least) gone out the window?
You write better than many college grads!
When were you at school that you could leave at 14? A fair age? That was when there were more jobs around and I should know as I'm 62. Nobody went to uni then, at least not working class folks. You got out and worked to help your working class family, even if you had high grades all through the 10 years of school you had to to at that time. That was when parents had an average of 6 kids, so the eldest worked as soon as they were legally able. My point, there isn't 20 jobs to choose from any more and employers want qualifications. And, over all these years, there are less and less apprenticeships for those who were more interested in and suitable for those types of jobs.
Carol Strachan i went to school in Australia. Technically you were to stay till 15, but if they knew you weren't going anywhere education wise, they'd turn a blind eye. I was working night shift at the new K mart that had just opened, whilst i was still at high school. Working till 10 at night. Then worked as a bricklayers laborer for a year and was offered the apprenticeship through the bricklayer boss
Greg B i think the education i did receive was of a good standard. I got the basics, i learnt to read and write, math, history, English, geography, science. I think education may have been of a better standard back then. I also had some very good teachers
Antipodean33 - You have a good grasp of grammar and rationality. You work close to reality - the world will punish you immediately for making mistakes while laying bricks. An immediate rapport of feedback: reward and punishment and learning improved ways.
Idealistic philosophies used to fly to airy abstractions at least in a postive, life-affirming, beautiful way - God, heaven, angels, Jesus, Mary, etc. - but now descend to more hellish categories of "oppressor" and "oppressed", "victim" and "power structures", "identity politics" and "social constructs", a postmodernistic chaos without the benefit of something real to offer resistance, something to show them where they have gone wrong and where they can go right.
When you get rid of the transcendent - God, LOGOS, karma, etc. - all you are left with is secular power, the only game in town.
This is the ideology of resentment. You want something but don't get it so someone has to be to blame, and off you go creating abstract categories to justify your failures and emotions, creating "enemies" to overcome. It is all fuelled by emotions, and negative ones at that.
This is atheistic Marxist-Leninism coming in through the back door and will lead to the same dire consequences - gulags, secret police and executions - because it is never pure enough, all resentments and frustrations will never be 100% gotten rid of. "We are always just one execution away from the perfect state". Look at the warmongering Neoconservatives in the US. They were originally Trotskyists advocating "perpetual revolution", which is now "perpetual war - see Irving Kristol.- without a higher power to answer to.
I have a Ph,D. from a prestigious German university and have a son and a daughter. I do not encourage them to pursue a university degree. With the internet, the evolving world's knowledge and thinking and speculation is at their fingertips. I tell them to use common sense - what is more probable - and to think for themself. Believe nature. Follow nature. Be natural. Be honest. Be righteous.
Be enthusiastic. Be inspired. Be grateful.
I wish you all the best, sir.
Cheers!
Courage and brillant Dr. Heather MacDonald, inspiring Eduated Lady! So inspiring!
Great speach. Just great ! I love it.
Holy crap, someone speaking truth to absurdity, awesome.
Nice to hear someone speaking SENSE, and with a respectable audience to boot.
We need more of this, and more people like her, telling the truth and not apologizing for it. The madness in the schools, media and elsewhere has gone too far, and like a cancer will continue to spread unless it is cut out.
"Diversity is our Strength" might as well be straight out of Orwell's 1984. Nothing could be more false.
Imagine choosing a car for a race because of the color of the paint and if a certain color is missing from the race you MUST choose that color of car or you are fired. Good luck winning the race
This is happening at ALL schools now. There is even a private international school in Indiana that is doing this and its SHAMEFUL and INSANE
Ms. Mac Donalds data and thoughts on this are always on-point. Glad people are paying attention & listening. We have a lost generation due to these universities in the West.
You know, they did this in China a long time ago, starting in 1966, Year One of the Cultural Revolution. Tens of millions of young people, sanctioned by the State, basically went crazy, looted and terrorized the cities, and celebrated the fact that they required little to no education at all, in order to exercise their new-found power. They became drunk with it. And underneath it all was a great and profound fear. That undercurrent lifted all their tiny little boats into an armada capable of sinking a thousand Titanics.We may ponder this question. Why is it that not one in a thousand "social Just-Us 'warriors' know this history, or understand what it teaches us. That knowledge apparently, is not necessary anymore.
brojo Merzetti Why would you expect them to know any history at all ?
A good question, jaik.
It would be fitting I suppose if we could just refer to them as illiterate, ignorant, uneducated fools.
The only thing they appear to know and understand is power, and even that probably as a vague notion.
Sort of like how in nature a predator uses the fear of its prey.
Actually, when it comes to history, Victimology has a basis in that. History analyzed on the basis of oppressor and oppressed. I'm sure the bunches of fools would never admit that they'd love to become Oppressors, if only they knew how.
brojo Merzetti - The amazing thing they're pulling off is being oppressive, while denying they're doing it, saying, "We don't have the power. You do." By and large, they're getting away with it. This is the most bizarre thing I think I've seen in my life. It's made me think we're fortunate that the white supremacists of the past didn't think up this gambit, but it's only because up until recently, I've been ignorant of this historical detail. It turns out this is the way some of the most oppressive regimes in history have gotten going, saying they are weak, and speak on behalf of the oppressed. This is what the communist revolutionaries said. This is what the Nazis said. Both promised a utopia. In our case, they promise reparations for historical sins of unequal societal treatment.
Well now - they've all got their own mess to contend with. I don't think your average western entitled social "just us" warrior has a clue about international and historic communist theories. They're more in love with the French Post Modernist dysphoria.
But I'll say this. Any nation with a powerful military that succeeds at keeping Identity Politics down there beneath the kitty litter tray will have full advantage when the West tumbles into its own navel and disappears altogether !
The left is heavily represented by females.
Females have been over indulged in my life time.
Their behavior has become more self deserving, and using their weakness to guilt males into giving them undeserved privilege.
There's no Marxist equality in their methods. Once they are expected to be equal in self determination to males, they lose their ability to leverage males and the level headed to grant them perpetual concessions.
This is the best thing that I've watched in a long time...
I am a black college student, for the 3rd time. I have college debt and one Bachelor's of Science. I can attest to the difference between myself and my peers who grew up in homes or in environments where education and personal responsibility were a part of the childhood development. People will hear her and assume that she is saying that we, as black people, are not capable, when the stats are saying something both more hopeful and also more nefarious. We are capable, but our culture refuses to stare at the actual issues that handicap our future. The black culture has to accept personal responsibility within the home, then the community. If it's always the fault of an invisible hand, we have no recourse. We have to reject the road of ease and victimhood. We have to desire our place in society and achieve it by working alongside our fellow Americans. We nearly need to forget that we are black, if it is the only value we are willing to hold on to, and teach our next generation to be citizens.
Feel unsafe. It is the way to freedom. Better to be free than safe. But that requires courage such has this lady shows. In a village of insane people the one who isn't is the crazy one. Be crazy brave and be free to be you no matter what the world tells you to be.
This is the first time ever heard of Heather and of course the first time I heard her speak. At first I thought I wasn't hearing her correctly but it became clear after while. I didn't think anyone could say the things she says without being burned at the stake. I am not a highly educated person as she obviously is but I have believed much of what she says since childhood and I am almost 60 now. I saw this play out in front of my face in elementary school in the 60's. I can't say I fully understood it as a child but I knew it was not good. I witnessed first hand from elementary school through high school that any altercation between black and white, our mostly white teachers, principles and deans always sided or gave benefit of doubt to the black person. I know she didn't talk about this but it's very similar in giving preference to someone based on ethnicity. Most people who speak like this are written off and thrown on the junk pile labeled racist.
It remains baffling that despite being ridiculed with such eloquence, the diversity industry is still prospering apparently unhindered. It's as if the passengers on the Titanic could see the iceberg in the distance, talked about it amongst themselves, warned the captain, the helmsman, the officers. Lots of polite discussions, some heated words, and the ship never changed course. Something akin to a mutiny needs to happen or we are doomed. Words, however brilliant, are showing their limit in the world we live in today.
Nail on the head, there :nods:. The problem is that words can indeed change the course of social progress but it takes a long time. The Marxists laboured for three decades beneath the radar before what they were building became apparent.
@@dallassukerkin6878 Yes. And they had time on their side. We don't.
It's in the nature of subversion that it can take its time, eating away at the structure within the walls, out of sight. When we start noticing the cracks, we can measure them, scan the walls, diagnose the problem, count the termites, hold seminars on this topic etc. That's what we're doing now. But if this is all we do, the structure will collapse. We do not have the luxury of time, as our opponents did.
We see the problem being exposed brilliantly, but these words seem to be without any visible effect. If it took a few decades to weaken the structure close to the point of collapse, slowly weakening the opposition will not prevent the collapse. Action, decisive action, is needed in the face of a widespread lunacy - as Gad Saad likes to call it - that unfortunately keeps spreading. Not instead of words, but in addition to words.
It takes both words and action.
Exactly.
After all the absolutely fake "boss girls" and "boss women" going around, to finally meet a TRUE BOSS LADY is awesome. This, folks, is a real woman
Why are basketball courts and football fields not diverse? That was the show stopper in this hour of learning
I’m on vacation in Vienna Austria as I listen to this video tonight, and I cannot believe the destruction to this beautiful city. So much fantastic culture destroyed by the Middle East
So Much distroyed in America before the whites, aboriginal people destroyed by Prison populations of the United Kingdom.....
Indi Bhart So you are against that type of thing right? Thanks for taking my side
This is BS. 95% of native Americans who died as a result of the migration of Europeans to the North American continent died from the diseases they contracted from the Europeans settlers because they had little or no immunity to those diseases. As for frontier wars between whites and Amer-Indians, there were hundreds of tribes. Those tribes were all nomadic groups fighting among themselves over territories which were defined only by those internecine wars. Some Indians allied with the Europeans against other tribes. And some tribes carried on trade with the white settlers. Some tribes were hostile at times and friendly at other times with the settlers, and in any case, by the early 1800's a significant percentage and number of Amer-Indians were actually part white due to racial mixing. Andrew Jackson negotiated with so many "half breeds," he began to question their claim to even be Amer-Indian.
Boz O. Yes, the American natives (Aka Indians) fought vigorously and often for all the same reasons white Europeans did (territory and resources) This is constantly overlooked and relabeled. They fought on scales large and small solely based on their ability and technology, and when they found themselves with greater technologies they (like all humans) expanded their empires and or attempted to impose them on others. Europeans were not the first nor the last to do this, they were just more technologically savvy, and were tremendous record keepers unlike that of the societies that found themselves behind the curve
The Indians had no concept or word for the ownership of land. As I stated previously, they were 98 - 99% nomadic hunter-gatherers; whereas, the Europeans had long since moved on to the agricultural stage of human civilization in which the ownership of land along with its corollary, property rights was well developed and established in European culture. It's not racist to observe this truth. It isn't right. And it isn't wrong. It's just the way it was.
Epic! Thank you CZcams for sending me here
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Very informative topic. Thank you Heather.
Need more people like her in the academic world
I work for a subsidiary of Liberty Global in the Uk , actively replacing male IT engineers to meet crazy diversity quotas .....
Paul Hill disgusting
Good luck with that !
How's that working out?
It might be too late...... but tell your mates!
Diversity for thee and not for me.
How refreshing to listen to someone with some common sense. Bravo!
This should be a required lecture in both high school and college.
Narcissists NEED power, and they create CHAOS to get power (IMHO)
youre right, she is chaotic
A Mishel - IMHO, I don’t believe these lunatics are narcissists. At least, most weren’t born that way. Yes, it mimics the sound & behavior of narcissism, but these kids were taught to live in abject fear by believing that racism is systemic and rampant in every corner of America.
The fact is that most of these minority students have been placed in Ivy League and very competitive universities (due to requirements of diversity) while their own academic abilities make it impossible for them to keep up. Too many studies on this. So, their anger of mediocrity is an excuse to blame the achievers. Hence, the rage over white privilege, racism, sexism, etc is growing.
A Mishel - Actually, I only just heard the first question in Q&A and Asians aren’t counted as people of color because their academic achievements are sky high. So, saying they are white rips up the lunatics’ outrages.
The right is the one in power even though it is a national minority. Hmmm
@Wayne Grover right down there with Killery, only the rhetoric is different.
Every word out of this woman's mouth is like a breath of fresh air. This is simply common sense conservatism.
SPOT ON thank you for providing this clip... she's putting into words what well over 99% of Americans know what is the truth... I'm a minority who agrees with her 1000 %
I have been discriminated against, abused, and lied about at the University of the Fraser Valley where I have attended for 11 years. However, I still continue to thrive because I have an internal locus of control and have confidence in my abilities. In other words, I don't really care because I am still successful which is all one can hope for.