1/ “It has been taboo to hint at the reason that the millions of dollars already [spent] on campus diversity initiatives have yet to engineer exact proportional representation of blacks in the student body and on the faculty: the vast academic skills gap.” https://www.city-journal.org/academia-systemic-racism
2/ “Now this truth will be even more professionally lethal to anyone who dares mention it. The highest reaches of the university have declared as a matter of self-evident fact that systemic racism is the defining feature of American society, one that explains every inequality.”
3/ “To declare from the highest reaches of the academy that racism is the defining and all-explaining feature of American society is to adopt a political position, not to state a scientific truth...”
4/ "Even before the Floyd riots, universities were notoriously hostile to points of view that challenged the already-powerful campus orthodoxies... Those few courageous faculty members who dared dispute the racism thesis found themselves ostracized...”
5/ “In the post-Floyd era, any prospective Ph.D. proposing to study the behavioral components of inequality will find it almost impossible to be admitted to a graduate program, much less to find a job afterward.”
6/ “[A few] may still push back against the received wisdom, but their numbers will shrink, and the social and professional toll from their obstinacy will be higher... the costs of such heresies will rise, and the inhibitions on free thought and speech will grow more crushing.”
7/ “Each diversity initiative... requires pretending that it was not preceded by a long line of identical efforts... Now, the pressure to admit and hire on the basis of race will redouble... elevating even less skilled candidates... American institutions will pay the price."
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