The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Hardcover – 4 Sept. 2018

An eye opening dismantling of the mindset that has taken over universities and workplaces in recent decades. Anyone who has had experience of recent graduates will be aware of the detrimental impact such thinking has had on the abilities and skillset itwas once safely assumed graduates would have once they entered employment

This is eye-opening. I've always felt as a white male who up until recently identified with purely left-wing ideoligy felt that I can't comprehend race and gender biases and that they must exist to such an extent for so many people in minority groups to feel oppressed, but what if the invisible oppression is merely that? What if it doesn't exist? What are the causes for relative "failure" by minority groups and are we really trying to help them? Are they really trying to help themselves? Can differences in groups be attributed by innate differences in those groups rather than due to direct oppression from the outside Word? Is it time to demolish the idea of groups and celebrate individual responsibility? Have we become so afraid to be racist in today's world that the only safe way to live is be racist enough to identify and favour those groups we don't belong to. I'm only half way through, but already this is something I would have benefitted from 10 years ago when I was trying to understand the supposed oppression we face.

I was inspired to purchase this book after having come upon a YouTube video in which the author, Heather Mac Donald, detailed some of the ideologically inspired lunacy that was taking place in modern academia. Now, this was not altogether new to me as I had been aware of such madness in universities for more than two years, but the stories she told made me wonder if the academic world was beyond saving, and, by extension, Western culture and civilisation, for this disease has spread way beyond the university campus and infects almost every institution and workplace in the West. In this wonderful book, Heather examines the many false narratives of the left - microaggressions; implicit bias training; campus rape culture - and exposes them to the light of reason. We can only hope that reason wins out...

An extremely important and brilliantly written analysis of identity politics and its consequences. Should be prescribed reading in every high school !

Ideally a book like this would provide a balanced, insightful argument about the state of our higher education system, and our society, based on evidence. Instead the book is an ideologically driven polemic from someone whose mind is already made up. Likewise, it seems to be written for people whose minds are already made up, or possibly for people who find the world frightening and confusing and, because of the right wing propaganda, feel that their own lives will become worse if others are respected and given equal rights. They get easy, potentially comforting answers here, but not a lot of compassion, or reality. Don't waste your time.