The Diversity Mania Marches On

George Leef

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  • March 19, 2010

I recently learned that students at UNC-Chapel Hill can become certified "Diversity Advocates." Today's Pope Center piece is about that program. What I discovered was that Chapel Hill's "diversity training" is much like the hideous University of Delaware "residence life" program, a mindless exercise in leftist cliches about power, privilege, oppression, and so forth. The idea is to get students to buy into the fantasy world the left has constructed to justify constant government intervention to bring about "social justice."

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