How ’social justice’ undermines true diversity: Quotation of the day

…. is from Philip Carl Salzman, emeritus Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, writing in Minding the Campus:

Quote :: It is forbidden to say that traditional middle-class values are the key to success in society and to a successful society. Those who have said this are denounced as racists, and punishments visited upon them. Advocates of free speech are called “alt-right” and “fascists,” and university students have claimed the right to shut down speakers to deviate from “social justice” ideology through disruption or violence. University administrations have de facto granted students these rights.
“Social justice” policies of racial and gender admissions and hiring may not be challenged by those advocating merit-based personnel decisions, which are rejected by “social justice” and race advocates as “white supremacy” and “male supremacy.” No one is allowed to question the validity and desirability of “multiculturalism,” and the corollary assertion that “all cultures are equally good and beneficial.”
In all of these examples, facts do not matter; evidence does not matter; truth does not matter — only politically correct “social justice” ideology matters.
Illiberal “social justice” ideology advocates only one, narrow kind of “diversity”: the diversity of gross gender, racial, sexual, ethnic and religious categories. But it rejects the more meaningful types of diversity, those advocated by classical liberals: the diversity of individuals; the diversity among categories, which is often a diversity of culture; and diversity of thought, belief, and opinion. “Social justice” ideology is thus more similar to totalitarian communist ideology than to classical liberal philosophy.

http://www.aei.org/publication/quotation-of-the-day-on-how-social-justice-undermines-true-diversity/

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How ’social justice’ undermines true diversity: Quotation of the day

How ’social justice’ undermines true diversity: Quotation of the day

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