The Diversity Delusion

A culture of hypersensitive political correctness has taken over American college campuses.

Conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald argues that within the environment on today’s US campus, even the faintest examples of discrimination based on race, gender or sexual preference can blow up into major showdowns. In 2017, Mac Donald claims to have learned firsthand how intolerant campus politics have become. She was scheduled to speak about her book The War on Cops at Claremont McKenna College in California. Student activists on Facebook called for blocking her speech, describing Mac Donald as a “notorious white supremacist fascist.”

Mac Donald describes a throng of angry protesters blocking audience members from attending her talk. The protesters chanted about the racism of Claremont McKenna College – even though, Mac Donald says, the school admits black and Hispanic students with SAT scores that are on average 200 points lower than those of white and Asian students. Mac Donald spoke to an empty auditorium while her remarks were streamed online, and the police escorted her on and off campus.