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   From: hannity_is_gay@fox.net   
      
   Ubiquitous wrote   
      
   > MARK LEVIN, HOST: Hello America, I am Mark Levin, this is "Life, Liberty   
   > & Levin" with our great guest, Heather Mac Donald, how are you?   
   >   
   >   
   > HEATHER MAC DONALD, FELLOW, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: Fine, thank you, Mark.   
   > Thank you for having me on.   
   >   
   > LEVIN: Well, you have a BA and MA in English. You have a JD. You are a   
   > lawyer, but you are a scholar in so many areas -- race relations,   
   > immigration, policing in colleges and universities. And this is where I   
   > really wanted to delve in with you. You have a new book, "The Diversity   
   > Delusion: How race and gender pandering corrupt the university and   
   > undermine our culture." This so relevant today, and you that argue toxic   
   > ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic   
   > values, fueled intolerance and widened division in our larger culture.   
   > And I think we see this everywhere now.   
   >   
   > MAC DONALD: We certainly do, the Kavanaugh hearings was an example that   
   > were all in gender studies 101 now, Mark. Virtually every aspect of the   
   > culmination of hysteria that greeted Judge Kavanaugh was perfected over   
   > the last decade on the college campus.   
   >   
   > Above all, the preposterous mantra to believe survivors regardless of   
   > the evidence, regardless of due process. This is the campus rape   
   > hysteria that has been transforming the lives of males on campuses,   
   > creating an extraordinarily costly bureaucracy, moved into the real   
   > world and it is not going away, it's only going to get worse.   
   >   
   > LEVIN: What have our universities and colleges become? And when did this   
   > happen? I mean, they were always kind of liberal in the last several   
   > decades, but in some ways, they are not my phrase. They are almost sort   
   > of a Soviet- style system where there really isn't free speech, you're   
   > not allowed to challenge the so-called norms in the universities, where   
   > race and gender, seem to have a priority over other things and that sort   
   > of thing. When did all of this happen?   
   >   
   > MAC DONALD: Well, the 80s was when it started in my view. That is when   
   > you got radical multiculturalism that hit. I was in college in 70s, I am   
   > grateful for because I was allowed to read John Milton, William   
   > Wordsworth and Shakespeare without anyone thinking to complain about the   
   > gonads and melanin of those authors. I got to lose myself in beauty, in   
   > greatness and sublimity.   
   >   
   > Come the 80s, and students were given a license for ignorance. They were   
   > taught that the only thing they needed to know about book was the race   
   > and gender of author to know whether it was thoroughly dismissible   
   > without even being read and they could go to instead wallow in their own   
   > delusional oppression, and it has only gotten worse since then, and what   
   > we are doing is breeding the grounds for I fear, Civil War because   
   > students are being taught to hate, to hate the greatest works of western   
   > civilization, and frankly to hate east each other.   
   >   
   > From the moment a student steps on a college campus today as a freshman   
   > or a fresh person, I should probably say, the bureaucracy is determined   
   > to drum in to that student's head, identity politics, which says, he is   
   > either a victim or an oppressor. Oppressors are obviously most famously   
   > white males, heterosexual white males. The only way they can get out to   
   > of their oppressor category is to become an ally - an ally of the   
   > oppressed.   
   >   
   > The most preposterous delusion of all of this is student actually   
   > believe that they are at risk of their lives from circumambient racism   
   > and sexism on a college campus. This is an environment that in   
   > traditional liberal terms is the most tolerant environment in human   
   > history for society's traditionally marginalized groups.   
   >   
   > Yet, there is a massive bureaucracy dedicated to cultivating in students   
   > this delusional sense of their own oppression, which then they carry   
   > with them, it's a chip on their shoulder that prevents them from seizing   
   > the magnificent opportunities to learn, to read every book that is ever   
   > been written, and they carry this chip, this delusional victimology into   
   > world at large, and they are going around blaming American institutions   
   > of endemic racism and sexism, when that no longer is true.   
   >   
   > LEVIN: You see it with respect to professors and tenure, you see certain   
   > professors are sort of drummed out of the classroom, you see rise in   
   > confrontation - physical confrontation on college campuses. You see that   
   > commencement speakers are almost totally of the left.   
   >   
   > And you see when some conservatives dare to go to a college campus and   
   > want to speak about things that are really not particularly   
   > controversial, how often you have to bring in riot police or the   
   > security guards have to come into the facility.   
   >   
   > The administrators, are these old 1960's retread types or who are these   
   > people?   
   >   
   > MAC DONALD: Yes, the administrators are even more left wing than the   
   > faculty, and they are part of this massive bureaucracy. If students are   
   > wondering "why is my college tuition so expensive," look no further than   
   > diversity bureaucracy. At the University of California Los Angeles,   
   > their Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion makes over   
   > $400,000.00 a year. This is mindboggling. This is multiples more than   
   > your average faculty member makes. It could pay for free tuition for   
   > four years for 12 undergraduates and that Vice Chancellor of Equity,   
   > Diversity and Inclusion has nothing to do because there isn't a single   
   > bigot on a university campus today.   
   >   
   > Every faculty search is one desperate effort to find qualified females   
   > or so-called underrepresented minorities, this refers to blacks and   
   > Hispanics who haven't already been snapped up by better endowed schools.   
   > So what do the Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion do?   
   > Because they are certainly not routing circumambient racism and sexism,   
   > what they are doing is drumming into students' heads this false   
   > narrative of victimology.   
   >   
   > And what is amazing to me is that colleges are somehow held harmless for   
   > the rising tuitions. The solution that's always bandied about in public   
   > discourse is, more Federal aid. No. Don't feed the beast. Cut the   
   > bureaucracy, get back to the basics of learning, which now is a distance   
   > after thought, no faculty has the guts to say, "We know what you should   
      
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