Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
by James Kalb
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Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.-ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real conversation"? How do these terms function as mere doublespeak for the expectation of full-scale capitulation to the views of "right-thinking people"? Those who have long been afraid to touch the issues that attend these words will take great show more reassurance in an articulate statement of the kind presented in Against Inclusiveness, where the author's approach is sober and extremely well reasoned, as he attempts to marshal truth and fairness as criteria in the examination of issues critical to modern social life. Kalb argues that in current inclusiveness ideology, "classifying people" becomes an exercise of power by the classifier that denies the dignity of the person classified. All rational consideration of human reality is thereby suspended, and the result is something arbitrary and increasingly tyrannical. Against Inclusiveness lays the foundation for what an honest, forthright, real conversation on these matters might look like. show lessTags
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The author has some interesting points - the dearth of research on the connection between human biology and human culture, the banality of the current diversity regime, the irony of a diversity regime that is truly frightened of what it is to be diverse. He is also not arguing for a return to Jim Crow, the Third Reich, or institutionalized bigotry.
Still, Mr. Kalb makes repeated appeals to transcendence and to revelation, and sets up a number of straw-man arguments against what he calls scientism. Very few scientists would agree that science is the source of all that we known about the universe. Having said that, we should be interested in evaluating and testing ideas about culture, religion, society and relationships. And we will be show more surprised by what such a scientific approach reveals about humanity, and we will be disappointed that such investigation disagrees with our cherished notions of humanity. show less
Still, Mr. Kalb makes repeated appeals to transcendence and to revelation, and sets up a number of straw-man arguments against what he calls scientism. Very few scientists would agree that science is the source of all that we known about the universe. Having said that, we should be interested in evaluating and testing ideas about culture, religion, society and relationships. And we will be show more surprised by what such a scientific approach reveals about humanity, and we will be disappointed that such investigation disagrees with our cherished notions of humanity. show less
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