This DEI is simply what Marxism-Leninism was in the Soviet Bloc. Students all had to take courses in it, admission to universities was on an affirmative action points system based on ancestry/origins, and of course one had to lie. Dissidents were dismissed, imprisoned, their children barred from higher education. Party faithful could get…
This DEI is simply what Marxism-Leninism was in the Soviet Bloc. Students all had to take courses in it, admission to universities was on an affirmative action points system based on ancestry/origins, and of course one had to lie. Dissidents were dismissed, imprisoned, their children barred from higher education. Party faithful could get degrees for mediocre work, and there were many useless people supposedly working as professors, though also many very good people. The party mediocrities quickly departed the scene after Soviet Communism fell, the Marxist-Leninist institutes closed up shop. The dissidents took over, while generously allowing those ex-Communists not too tainted by the past to still take part in democratic politics (at least in Poland).
Xi Jinping Thought is now taught in China, together with all that I mentioned above.
Some of he most influential critics of Soviet-style Communism were actually idealistic Communists who from within saw the hypocrisy and inhumanity of the system and rebelled, becoming dissidents. By analogy, I see black, female or gay dissidents as being those most likely to effectively expose the betrayal of civil rights ideals by the DEI Critical/Queer Theory complex in the Anglosphere. They are doing a great job already, but the simultaneous insanity on the Right in the US means that getting over the hump will take a longer time than it should. In normal times, these extreme and irrational movements should have no chance of wide acceptance.
This DEI is simply what Marxism-Leninism was in the Soviet Bloc. Students all had to take courses in it, admission to universities was on an affirmative action points system based on ancestry/origins, and of course one had to lie. Dissidents were dismissed, imprisoned, their children barred from higher education. Party faithful could get degrees for mediocre work, and there were many useless people supposedly working as professors, though also many very good people. The party mediocrities quickly departed the scene after Soviet Communism fell, the Marxist-Leninist institutes closed up shop. The dissidents took over, while generously allowing those ex-Communists not too tainted by the past to still take part in democratic politics (at least in Poland).
Xi Jinping Thought is now taught in China, together with all that I mentioned above.
Some of he most influential critics of Soviet-style Communism were actually idealistic Communists who from within saw the hypocrisy and inhumanity of the system and rebelled, becoming dissidents. By analogy, I see black, female or gay dissidents as being those most likely to effectively expose the betrayal of civil rights ideals by the DEI Critical/Queer Theory complex in the Anglosphere. They are doing a great job already, but the simultaneous insanity on the Right in the US means that getting over the hump will take a longer time than it should. In normal times, these extreme and irrational movements should have no chance of wide acceptance.