DEI MUST DIE: HATRED AS CONTAGION

Paul Nathanson (wordwatcher@videotron.ca)
Paul Nathanson has a BA (art history), a BTh (Christian theology), an MLS (library service), an MA (history and philosophy of religion) and a PhD (comparative religion).

Abstract

ABSTRACT

DEI is a worldview that fosters the institutionalization of identity politics in general and of several closely related and politically aligned ideologies in particular. One central premise of DEI and related ideologies is that no other factors—not personal animosity, for instance, or even personal awareness—can explain systemic racism or sexism. DEI insists on racial or sexual diversity but rejects viewpoint diversity; moreover, it excludes those who hold disfavored viewpoints, using a basic dualistic structure (which identifies innately innocent victims with “us” and innately evil victimizers with “them”). Collective guilt lies at the very heart not only of “critical gender theory” and “critical race theory,” but also of every other form of identity politics on both the Left and the Right.


Keywords: antisemitism, DEI, feminism, gynocentrism, male, masculine identity, misandry

Author Biography

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Paul Nathanson has a BA (Art History), a BTh (Christian Theology), an MLS (Library service), an MA (history and philosophy of religion) and a PhD (Comparative Religion), Of particular interest to him is the surprisingly blurry relation between religion and secularity: how religious patterns of thought underlie seemingly secular phenomena such as popular movies and political ideologies. With Katherine Young, he has written a series on the problem of masculine identity in an age of identity politics and sexual polarization.

Contact details: wordwatcher@videotron.ca 

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