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2020-12-23 d
D.I.E. (diversity, inclusion, equity) AT DALTON SCHOOL IV
"Every seemingly-virtuous act as some dark secret at its heart and the mystery at the center of this one is that the new cadre of diversity warriors are themselves racist. In their minds, minorities can't help themselves but only the Great White Hope of Postmodernists can. The whole thing is self-flagellating drivel, perpetuated by people educated beyond their own intelligence."

Dalton Update

The Head of School (we can't say Headmaster anymore - triggering) emailed the Dalton community. He characterizes the faculty letter as a "thought starter," not a list of demands. A working document, if you will, although it was signed by over one hundred staffers.

There's clearly some backpedaling going on here. I hear there was a hastily called board meeting. To be fair, the faculty letter does not say "demands." My sources say they view them as much, but I can't know for sure.

Also, in the spirit of accuracy, the faculty is not tying this to their return to the school. This may have been floated, but if so, is no longer the case. Too weak a hand? Dalton has been one of the only schools in New York that hasn't returned at all this year.

But this doesn't change the substance of what's going on here. If you haven't, I urge you to read all the "proposals." (See my previous post.) If you think it's a sane, rational document, if you think the ideas put forth would produce anything other than more divisiveness, you probably live that kind of woke bubble that only exists on the coasts and university towns.

Twelve full time diversity officers? Diversity officers are hammers looking for nails. Their very job descriptions necessitate finding them, and they do, even in progressive utopias like Dalton. This often means resorting to ill-defined "microagressions" and the like. You're racist even if you don't know it.

Diversity has become a full blown industry in America. It's not just Dalton. Hire more officers and they will find ever-more nuanced definitions of racism, as one commenter put it.

The goals of the diversity movement were, theoretically, commendable, at least for a time. the movement has become something else altogether. Sadly, it reduces the very people it strives to help to a permanent victim class.

How this is good for anyone, white or black, I don't know.

(read comments, including a list of the Board of Trustees)

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