Institutions with “directors of diversity” have normally already decided to devalue certain aspects of their heritage, even if they have not yet allowed themselves to say so in their public relations work.

It is not a matter of “ethnicity” or “culture”, in that if you’re an Italian immigrant, a Hungarian immigrant, or a white Zimbabwean (there are some… one just won Olympic Gold in swimming), you don’t count as a diversity hire. Sad, but true.

It is not a matter of “socioeconomic variety”, in that if you’re a poor white person, you don’t count as a diversity hire, while a rich black person does. Shoot, you can be a poor white person RAISED by poor black people… there are some instances of this. You don’t count, but your adoptive brother does (that is, the natural descendant of the family into which you, the white person, were adopted).

It is less and less a matter of gender in higher education, for an excellent reason. For some years now, more women than men are being graduated from college. Women can’t realistically be considered the “minority” in higher education for much longer, and in fact there will soon be an imbalance in the other direction.

The only “diversity” factor that really counts is race. And if you’re Asian, even that won’t do you much good, because Asians are presumed not to “need” diversity policies to get ahead. So, the net result is this: diversity hires tilt an institution to the Left, because disproportionate numbers of blacks and Hispanics tilt Left. Around 90% of blacks vote Democratic. Around 70% of Hispanics vote Democratic.

Democrats represent the Left in the 21st century, regardless of the centrists that could be found in the party decades ago. There are no Scoop Jacksons or Pat Moynihans anymore. The hard Left has pretty much taken over the party leadership.

This doesn’t mean that all blacks and all Hispanics buy into the entire agenda of the Left. It does mean that the overall effect of their presence in your institution will be to drive it Left. Oddly, whites who are deeply committed to diversity tend to be even more Left, overall…

If you represented an institution whose ideological perspectives you wished to maintain, you could certainly seek (and find) “persons of color” whose beliefs were in sync with your institution. But it doesn’t work that way, because fans of “diversity” would find such an “ideological test” to be objectionable on its face. In the end, diversity rules over all, and the movement to the Left is assured.

So, as I said, the “chicken or egg” question is not clear. What is clear is that if the chicken lays eggs, you’ll soon have more chickens.

The issue, to me, is that Liberals have changed the definition to fit their agenda. I would think that Christian institutions of higher learning would know better.
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Cultural diversity

Definition: ethnic, gender, racial, and socioeconomic variety in a situation, institution, or group; the coexistence of different ethnic, gender, racial, and socioeconomic groups within one social unit

Webster’s New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)
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