"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the path to hell" - Niall Ferguson on U.S. College Campuses 

I totally agree. Animal Farm is also great.

I think many people have read 1984 and view it as an instruction manual rather than a warning. Some people see it as a utopia to strive for.

@@gemox3225 It is for all socialists , It shows how even when the hard working animals revolt and for a short time establish a more egalitarian and less abusive society the psychos return and corrupt and take back that which they wrongly consider thier right ..

Orwell was Left wing a socialist ,, 1984 is showing the evils of dictatorship, .At present there is no Left threat the threat is from a market dictatorship. The Market a demi god which dictates all decisons and outcomes,.A Dictatorship. Orwell wrote aginst dictatorship from any polical direction , Of course Right wing people have blinkers about thier own forms of dictatorship..

They read it, they thought it was an instruction manual!

@Wiintb With all due respect , the West with its Judeo-Christian principle is based on equality and is in no way even comparable to your situation with its abhorrent Caste System which is the epitome of inequality.

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"Right to say stupid stuff" EXCEPT WHEN YOU CRITICISE That one special COUNTRY

Well stated !

* what they identify as.

Ooops! That misfired, didn't it?

Thankyou keep supporting.

Really - memories must be short? Niall Ferguson sucked his thumb and cowed (and contributed) to DEI policies when he first went over to America. Now he's speaking what other braver souls were speaking about in the 70s and 80s (and getting cancelled for). The winds must surely be changing if he now feels brave enough to speak his mind.

@@frankyyaggabot6222 People can change, Franky - and should. Good for him.

@@stevej9058 Oh he did a lot of damage - there are Faculties in Harvard that are staffed the way they are because people like him gave entry to 20 year old wonder Professors who were lauded for their absence of gonads or skin colour (and who have subsequently accomplished nothing but compound the rot therein). He knows the culture well because he was a part of it! Still waiting for his mea culpa moment before he gets any kind of redemption or credit for change. I do like some of his work but he's become so boring and pretentious that one could mistake him for an English gentleman. I suspect he himself hasn't changed in so much the winds around him have, as he is now vociferating the prevailing ideologies of his new employers in Texas.

To hug people?

They more than make that money up through TV deals and ticket/merch sales. The big athletic programs are huge net positives for universities. They use those profits for a wide array of academic purposes. Athletic scholarships also opens the door for college education for traditionally marginalized groups

@@uclakirk Guardian newspaper: The plantation dynamics of college sport today are most readily apparent in the elite power five conferences (the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12, and Big 12) and the sports that bring in the big money: football and basketball. In the 2018-2019 season, the 65 power five universities generated $8.3bn in revenue between them. Yes, 8.3 billion. As Watson succinctly puts it, “There’s still a lot of revenue going out there.” Yet, that money does not find its way into the pockets of the disproportionately Black athletes responsible for generating it. While only 5.7% of the students at the PWIs that make up the power five are Black, that number surges to 55.9% for men’s basketball, 55.7% for football, and 48.1% for women’s basketball. These athletes receive only cost of attendance scholarships in exchange for their labor. In many cases, they do not even receive health insurance. So, where do those billions go? Well, the primary beneficiaries are the coaches, athletic department officials, and university presidents who oversee their work. White people disproportionately rule the campus athletic work in the power five conferences, whether at the level of chancellors and presidents (84%), athletic directors (75%), or head coaches (81% of men’s basketball coaches, 82% of women’s basketball coaches, and 80% of football coaches). The denial of compensation to the Black athletes who drive revenue is the single most damning dimension of the plantation dynamics of college sport.

It’s all the ‘egos of the universities’

@@uclakirk They make 8.5 billion in profit from sports, and as roughly 50% of sports participants are black ,minorities are being short changed by 2 billion.

@@claudiaxander Notice I’m responding to a post that has a complete lack of understanding of the economics of athletic programs in American universities. Your argument, that the profits are not distributed fairly, is valid, but it’s a different discussion. I agree, but that’s why the NIL is being instituted, which will hopeful help by allowing student athletes to be paid (although that model has its own set of difficulties…we’ll see).

Define a LONG time? I've been involved with the US academia and the woke insanity is no more than 10, maybe at the most 15 years old

@predragtosic. When I entered graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, most of the current Woke ideas were already entrenched. Only then it was called by a different name - political correctness. And CRT authors started writing in the 70s, I believe.

@@gemox3225 Hmmm... I'm assuming you were involved with social sciences and/or humanities, i.e., closer (than e.g. me) to the root cause of the problem. Jonathan Haidt's interviews and writings on the topic are quite insightful, IMO.

You mean like he is... On a stage.... At a conference. And everywhere else people are complaining of being "cancelled" while you're watching them on social media. Yeah.

@@djmartens123 Perhaps the reason so many people are speaking out about it is because there are so many attempts at silencing going on...

@@DS-rd9qndefinitely not silencing. You’re confusing it with just being held accountable. It’s not hard. Everyone everywhere is entitled to the same rights. If you feel attacked by other historically suppressed groups finally being able to exercise the same rights as the unrepressed ones, that’s a huge you problem.

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DEI must DIE

It's been there longer than the USA...

A bit. The treatment of Katherine Stock was shameful. But no.

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Read his book. "The ascent of Money"

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I’m genuinely curious as to your reasoning. How does non-discrimination lead to 0% diversity? It seems like an oxymoronic statement.

@@johnrossbleacher5381 I never said it would lead to no diversity. Rather, if one commits to "diversity" it's impossible not to also commit to discrimination. Non-discrimination might of course result in "diversity", but, it might not. Which of course is fine. Or in the name of diversity, ask a Dem voter supporting racism/DEI/quotas - .......should Hooter's stop only hiring young attractive women, and be required to hire fat old ugly men as waitresses? : )

Yes for a while things are going to get very bad …more and more conflict but it never lasts ….from the suffering that arises from it some will seek the only solution which works …find peace within

No ody is saying speech is violence or that freedom is danger. Stop being a flake

​@@johnn17golf you're kidding right?

Are you advocating for a small group of right-thinking students silencing fellow students for wrong think?

Are you living under a rock? You are just salty aren't you that Woke is crumbling, and this is your desperate cope. You are funny. And pretending that this man lacks intellect when you are probably a fan of AOC and Biden is golden

The US is a big country, more like a confederation of 50 smaller countries than a single entity. Where did you study?

Nonsense.

The problem with "including others in the conversation" is that you start to hear from a lot of people who don't have much to say.

I think many are looking for solutions in the wrong places…part of the problem is people try and change others when they feel their feelings are hurt rather than trying to change themselves so that whatever happens to them ( and everyone faces both criticism and praise at some time) they are not effected. This would be a far better use of one’s energy than to constantly look outside and blame others or situations…which is very tiring and is insolvable.

@@theinngu5560 no, the solution is to not carry on the hatred by passing your hatred to the next generation.

@@jeffkitson9565 Niall is clearly upset that he is not allowed to say the things out loud that other people keep to themselves, unlike 2 decades ago when he used to go to Harvard.

@@djmartens123 What things?

@@markaurelius61 Well, he is saying diversity and equity are the path to hell so I think that's a bit of a giveaway as to his political ideology. But I digress. I love listening to old rich dudes with British accents telling me that equity is bad. /s

@@djmartens123 But not people like Candace Owens or John McWhorter saying similar things? How racist of you ;)

We have to hold ourselves accountable..knowing whenever we behave unethically there will be consequences…and less looking at how others are behaving unless that is a job we have taken on.

@@theinngu5560 facts. Some people are only interested in maintaining the status quo but we all have to grow.

You must be a diversity hire…the speaker has a better resume than most.

@@darbyheavey406 I lost brain cells trying to find a coherent argument

@darbyheavey406 almost all the arguments against diversity have imprints of underlying hatred and insecurity. No sane mind can forget what we in the so-called West have been doing with the rest of the world in past a few centuries (and still doing), and can carry on arguing about such useless things in this day and age. The value of people who cause moral, philosophical, or political harm to society should not be understood by the looks of their resumes, but it is understandable that these things can be seen only by the eyes that can see without cultural and racial biases. All the best.

Capitalism makes the modern world possible. Before 1776 the world was much poorer…capitalism has eliminated abject poverty all over the world.

It's communism you fool

But you don’t get it! He and other old bigots can’t just spout off derogatory nonsense anymore and not expect to catch any crap for it. Can’t you see his world is crumbling?

You're not listening to what he said. It's not moral progress to force values into institutions that lead to diminution of merit, freedom of speech, and quality of output - it is regression couched as altruism.

​@@johnrossbleacher5381 and yet you feel safe in sprouting derogatory nonsense knowing that you'll catch no crap. SMH.

You're so close. Nobody should be mocked or shouted down. One person's definition of racism or homophobia isn't necessarily the same as another's. We should never presume to have moral high ground for that is merely a form of elitism.

I agree. There are subtler ways of suggesting someone's opinions are misguided, even ridiculous. I guess I just feel the urgency of holding back this tide of bigotry and poor thinking. Few people have these skills nowadays; few schools teach debating nowadays.

Candance Owens is awful

@@DS-rd9qn and Ben Shapiro?

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Harvard is but a shell of what it once was.