The Diversity Delusion: A Book Review
Other than our vast administrative bureaucracy, who benefits from the diminishment of education - and what will replace it?

In the mid-1990s, I was privileged to hold a position as Vice President of Marketing and Operations for an outfit called booksnow.com. Our business model was based on supplying books to readers of all the major magazines that offered book reviews.
So, I dealt directly with Time Magazine, Atlantic Magazine, National Review, as well as close to 300 of the nation's top magazines. In that capacity, I also served as an in-house book review editor and had occasion to write numerous book reviews for those magazines.
I can remember providing book reviews for Education Magazine which some of you may know was the publication provided by the National Teachers Association. This was before the current victimology and race-baiting culture that we find ourselves in today.
I also remember writing reviews on such titles as Dumbing Down Our Kids (see Amazon) and Dumbing Us Down (see Amazon) and other such titles. I do not think it was on anyone's mind at that time that this was actually part of a larger overall cultural takeover by progressive liberals and socialist elites. If you take the time to read these books, you will notice the one common theme throughout is an indictment of Common Core. But that is another issue.
I think at one time there was a sincere concern among most academics, teachers and other interested parties, including parents and students alike, that something was going on and that it was not good and something needed to be done about it.
However sad and unfortunate it may be that between then and now, the victimology culture, which has been leading the effort to bring us race and gender pandering, has corrupted our universities and is effectively undermining our entire society. It brings to focus the fact that something is very wrong and something still needs to be done about it.
I have been reading a lot of books on this particular subject lately because my daughter is a senior in high school and I really am concerned about her choice of college and her future. So, I've been reading lots of books, the most recent being The Diversity Delusion by Heather McDonald.
This book is incredibly enlightening and as it has been written with meticulous research and sourcing, I found the information in it extremely helpful in identifying problem areas in today's universities and, quite frankly, I am now more concerned than ever.
The bottom line is this: There is an extremely dangerous phenomenon taking place; universities are literally indoctrinating and brainwashing our children to resent the greatness of not only this country, but western civilization in general. Now, this can be correctly judged as just plain silly, but yes, this is exactly what the university delusionists are up to!
It would seem hard to believe that colleges are teaching children to resent our country and are promoting Marxist and socialist ideologies, but simply turning on your TV glaringly demonstrates what they're “protesting”, and what they're up to on campuses throughout liberal cities in America. It is painfully true.
So, I recommend any parents who want their child to actually get educated and not get brainwashed, READ THIS BOOK!!. It is a genuine eye-opener and will support your decision making process.
American Universities still must bend their respective knees to the free market. If parents and students refuse to pay tuition to colleges which offer courses that completely ignore the classics and the last thousand years of Western Civilization’s development in lieu of courses designed to help students better choose which bathroom transgenders should use, maybe they can get the message. In the meantime, at least you won't have underwritten the indoctrination of yet another Marxist dupe..
In order to accomplish this, you have to basically do three things:
1) You must come to really understand the nature of this diversity delusion that is manifesting on university campuses and which campuses are the worst offenders (Hint -- the VAST majority of universities are pushing this implicit “bias victimology” garbage).
2) You must also know the warning signs and what to look for in course descriptions, because they really try to hide it.
3) Ultimately, you have to steadfastly reject paying tuition for any course that won’t help your student learn the most important fundamentals.
Remember: understand, identify and refuse to pay for ANY course rooted in any of these offensive ideologies.
Your student is supposed to gain knowledge, not be brainwashed into an ideology!
I believe that after you read this book, you will be better able to make intelligent decisions that will actually help your student. If you really work hard at it, your student will emerge with a mind broadened and informed by the best that our heritage offers.
If you do not pay attention or help your students make informed decisions, more and more of them will continue to be funneled into groups that are exclusively defined by grievance and victimology.
This book not only provides great guidance, but also asks an important question: Who benefits, other than the vast administrative bureaucracy in the universities and government, from the diminishment of our students’ education? More importantly, once a broad education is lost, what flavor of flavor-of-the-month Marxist dogma will replace it?
You can buy a copy of this great book here.





