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Michael Rectenwald
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Quotes by Michael Rectenwald
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I walked into a hipster coffee shop and asked for a cup of 'gender fluid'. The cashier just pointed to the barista.
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Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.
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Political correctness is a code to silence dissent as western society is razed. The culture wars will erupt into violence, pitting those who defend western values vs. leftists, their 'allies', and the rulers who want to consign western civilization to oblivion.
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Given the choice, people will generally prefer chaos to the ordered chains of tyranny.
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Art should not be run through ideological councils or committees for approval or banishment.
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Likewise, if we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place.
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Successful reformation must allow social justice ideology to remain in existence while it is removed from its current position as policy-maker, arbiter of expression and inquiry, and censor. Only by relegating social justice to the position of one among many other belief systems can the university successfully absorb the creed without remaining hostage to it.
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People don't often say what they think but rather what they think is permissible.
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