Canadian Government Imposes 'Social Justice' on All Universities
When I was admitting students and hiring professors, I was interested in their grades, test scores, letters of reference, publications, statements of research interest, and I always picked the best in academic merit, irrespective of their reproductive plumbing, skin colour, sexual preference, religion, and ethnicity. I would have felt it to be absolutely wrong, as well as counterproductive, if anyone had suggested it, to give any consideration to these non-academic, racial, gender, etc., factors.
There
is a kind of "diversity" that I do support strongly: intellectual diversity and
diversity of opinion. It is only through the confrontation of different views,
interpretations, and theories, together with evidentiary substantiation or
refutation, that knowledge increases and improves. "Social justice," with its
"equity, diversity, and inclusion" of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity,
has no room for diversity of opinion. No demonstration of that could be better
than the Dimensions Charter Principles dictated by the Canadian government to
all universities.