Summary of Heather Mac Donald's The Diversity Delusion

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

# American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force and sometimes criminal violence to shut down ideas they don’t like. Yet when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action. It is time for them to take their heads out of the sand.

#2 The protesters eventually made it to the Athenaeum, where they met with administrators and Claremont police officers. The agitators did not allow anyone in or out of the Athenaeum, where I was to give a speech, except for me and a few administrators.

#3 I had heard chants of Black Lives Matter for the last two hours, so I thought that the protesters would be equally upset about the killing of five-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr. in 2010, who was shot by a member of Watts’s Kitchen Crips.

#4 Mac Donald’s speech was interrupted by protesters who shouted down her statistics on police killings of black people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669384748

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Insights on Heather Mac Donald's The Diversity Delusion

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force and sometimes criminal violence to shut down ideas they don’t like. Yet when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action. It is time for them to take their heads out of the sand.

#2

The protesters eventually made it to the Athenaeum, where they met with administrators and Claremont police officers. The agitators did not allow anyone in or out of the Athenaeum, where I was to give a speech, except for me and a few administrators.

#3

I had heard chants of Black Lives Matter for the last two hours, so I thought that the protesters would be equally upset about the killing of five-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr. in 2010, who was shot by a member of Watts’s Kitchen Crips.

#4

Mac Donald’s speech was interrupted by protesters who shouted down her statistics on police killings of black people.

#5

The fact that this suppression of conservative speech goes under the guise of antifascism is particularly rich. It is an effort to maintain the Left’s monopoly of thought.

#6

It is not enough for professors to sign statements in support of free speech. They must also show up to the threatened event itself to give meaning to the ideal of free speech, and they must shame the students trying to prevent their fellow students from hearing ideas that challenge campus orthodoxies.

#7

The students currently stewing in resentments and self-pity will eventually graduate, and some will seize levers of power more