The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture | 誠品線上

美國多元假象: 一味迎合種族和性別議題, 使大學沉淪, 並逐漸侵蝕我們的文化

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內容簡介 美國社會從大學到職場，正處於崩壞的危機當中。有害的觀念正從高等教育機構開始傳播出去，破壞了人文價值觀，使得不包容異議的現象加劇。並在更大的文化規模上，擴大了人們的分歧。 喬叟、莎士比亞和彌爾頓的作品竟代表迫害；美國歷史竟算暴政。教授若糾正學生的寫作文法和拼寫方式，或是雇主按自身需求設定聘用標準，竟被認為是種族和性別歧視！這種趨勢若延續下去，等學生進入職場，他們便會相信人們是由膚色、性別和性別取向來定義的，而基於這些特徵的迫害，就是生活在美國的感受。若有人想發表演講，挑戰這些所謂的校園政治正確觀念時，便會遭人使用暴力的方式噤聲。大學原本該是學習場所，如今成了培養受害者的溫床。 本書認為，這些問題的根源是，人們堅信美國普遍存在著種族和性別歧視，這種想法已導致社會和學術界的多元化官僚文化如癌細胞一樣惡性擴散。多元化的行政官僚譴責社會重視成就的取向是種歧視，因此在招募學生和人員時，行政官員或公司主管會執行配額制，這等於是在教學生和成人把自己視為永久的受害者。 影響所及，從#MeToo的狂熱運動開始，如今曖昧調情和犯罪行為的界線變得模糊不清；更嚴重的是，出現了隱性偏見和多元化這類強制要求的培訓課程，把一般各種的人際互動都解讀成種族歧視。 希瑟．麥克‧唐納為此感到憂心，所謂多元的真正意義，應該是建立對話的橋樑，從自身狹隘的視角中走出，擴展自身經驗，但如今卻成為分裂社會、造成對立的藉口。美國正在創造一個心胸狹窄的國家，預設大家會遭受到不公義的情況，而這麼做正危及到美國的競爭優勢，並且為了假性平等而扼殺了真正的多元價值。 作者認為，西方文明之所以建立，是透過過往人們一步步奠基的，偉大的作家、作曲家和藝術家遺留下來的經典作品，最能展現這樣的精神和價值，並激勵我們表現出人性最好的一面。本書集結作者數十年來對於這個主題的研究和文章，呼籲人們要減少受害者心態，恢復可以自由地追求真理的傳統，用開放心胸去探索事物和表達觀念，如此發掘出共通的人性。 By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting grammar and spelling, or employers hiring by merit? Racist and sexist. Students emerge into the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics is the American experience. Speech that challenges these campus orthodoxies is silenced with brute force. The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia. Diversity commissars denounce meritocratic standards as discriminatory, enforce hiring quotas, and teach students and adults alike to think of themselves as perpetual victims. From #MeToo mania that blurs flirtations with criminal acts, to implicit bias and diversity compliance training that sees racism in every interaction, Heather Mac Donald argues that we are creating a nation of narrowed minds, primed for grievance, and that we are putting our competitive edge at risk. But there is hope in the works of authors, composers, and artists who have long inspired the best in us. Compiling the author’s decades of research and writing on the subject, The Diversity Delusion calls for a return to the classical liberal pursuits of open-minded inquiry and expression, by which everyone can discover a common humanity.

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作者介紹 Heather Mac DonaldHeather Mac Donald is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from Cambridge in English, and a J.D. from Stanford. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Partisan Review, among other publications. She lives in New York.

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