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“Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that “essentialism,” the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that “discrimination”, treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“Inclusiveness is part of the liberal bubble, a gross overextension of a line of development assumed capable of going on forever. Bubbles burst, the dreams of youth dissipate, pride goes before destruction, and the world seems very different the morning after. Shock that the bubble burst is followed immediately by amazement that it lasted as long and went as far as it did.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“The recent history of Russia, featuring failed socialism followed by colossal thievery and mafia rule, shows what happens upon the collapse of a sustained and determined effort to eradicate a basic social principle founded on natural human tendencies.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“Self-invention has its questionable side in any event. Fluidity of identity mostly benefits those adept at varying their self-presentation for their own purposes and getting others to accept the result, in other words, the manipulative and delusional. In a free-floating, postmodern world, the con man and psychopath accordingly become major social types.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“Inclusiveness tries to eliminate the social effects of important human differences. When pursued seriously, this effort very quickly becomes tyrannical.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“Thus, it turns out that, when freedom and equality are treated as ultimate standards, they lead to an ever-greater degree of subordination and constraint. The ultimate result is complete tutelage, with kindergarten as the model for social life.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“difference, and "diversity" and "tolerance" mean that distinctions must be treated as interchangeable matters of purely private taste. As a result, advanced liberalism becomes freedom to make choices that are not permitted to matter”
― The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
― The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
“But if “good” means “preferred,” it is simply a matter of what we want, and its attainment becomes indistinguishable from the triumph of the will.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
“Life is too complex for experts to master, the result being that, when they run the world, they end up deciding issues arbitrarily or avoiding them altogether.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
