The Diversity Myth Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford
David O. Sacks
This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically correct “multiculturalism” has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellect...
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It was mentioned as a book written by David Sacks and Peter Thiel at Stanford in 1995. The discussion touched upon how the book predicted current issues concerning diversity of thought versus immutable characteristics.
in 1995. In essence, you wrote this at Stanford. You guys kind of predicted everything that was happening that's happening right now.
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It was mentioned as a book written by David Sacks and Peter Thiel at Stanford in 1995. The discussion touched upon how the book predicted current issues concerning diversity of thought versus immutable characteristics.
in 1995. In essence, you wrote this at Stanford. You guys kind of predicted everything that was happening that's happening right now.
Well, we had been writing on the Stanford Review and Stanford was sort of the epicenter that there was a famous protest in 1988 where Jesse Jackson led a mob that was chanting, hey, hey, Ho Ho Western culture's got to go.
Looking back, I mean, I was a teenager when we wrote a lot of that. I wouldn't actually make all the same arguments the same way that I did back then, but I do think we were ahead of the curve in realizing this growing a liberalism, this sort of political correctness now called cancel culture where we're putting restrictions on people's ability to speak and to think and to express themselves in ways that I think would have been, that certainly 1960s liberals wouldn't have supported.
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