How Diversity Is Dividing Us
Commentary
For many years, and accelerating since the Black Lives Matter riots, “diversity” has been a buzzword, a demand, a goal, and an obsession of government, business, religion, and almost every organization in America.
I’m a computer scientist. I haven’t been able to open a single engineering or science journal in the past two years without seeing multiple articles about diversity. Many issues of these magazines are devoted entirely to diversity rather than, for example, scientific research or engineering accomplishments.
I recently attended a presentation by the Association for Computing Machinery, the foremost international organization for computer scientists. Titled, “Language Matters: DEI and the Question of URM,” it was a one-hour discussion by three black women computer science professors alternately angry at white people and Asians for holding back intellectually superior black women. In fact, they held the most animosity toward white women who “pretended” to be disadvantaged when they were actually part of the “white supremacy” of our society. In years past, such bigotry was disguised and discussed quietly in private. Now, these bigots are public, loud, and given credibility and acknowledgment by international associations….