Category: Diversity

  • By Selwyn Duke “Well, that’s very stylish.” So said tough silver-screen cop Dirty Harry Callahan, in the 1976 film The Enforcer, reacting to a feminist initiative. Its goal was, a woke female official informed, to “broaden the areas of participation for women in the police force.” This was, of course, art imitating life, and today we’re…

  • By Selwyn Duke Here’s a thought exercise: Imagine a substantial number of Europeans are being moved into some indigenous South Americans’ territory. Now imagine a percentage of them are “illegals” and, what’s more, that they’re given government-funded housing locals often can’t afford. Imagine, too, that this drives up rent further, making the housing even more…

  • By Selwyn Duke We’ve been told by our “betters,” in a variety of ways, that the (actually long-extinct) thing called the Western “patriarchy” imperils women. Why, the miniseries Adolescence instructs that what you really must fear, Karen, are cute little 13-year-old English boys. But new data out of Germany, relating to a recent-years crime spike, tell a…

  • By Selwyn Duke Does it matter when a society’s long-present statues are torn down and replaced with very different ones? Well, consider an analogy. Imagine that upon coming home each day, you noticed that more and more pictures of your family members, which had adorned your walls, mantels, and desktops, were disappearing and were being…

  • By Selwyn Duke “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” This remark, made by the mischievous sprite Puck in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was directed at the absurdity of man’s love affairs. And while such folly is timeless, the comment is also relevant to a rather odd love affair perhaps unique to our time.…

  • By Selwyn Duke “My first wife was ’tarded,” said the low-IQ “Doctor Lexus” while reassuring his patient in the 2006 film Idiocracy. “She’s a pilot now.” A bit later in the movie, a plane is seen crashing in the distance while everyone goes about his business cavalierly, completely inured to such gross incompetence. Now, some may…

  • By Selwyn Duke Just two weeks ago I warned, to echo Mark Twain, that rumors of DEI’s death are greatly exaggerated. While “the label ‘DEI’ is new, the product it identifies is more than half a century old,” I stated. … And make no mistake, its predicates are still embedded in our culture.” For this…

  • By Selwyn Duke What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast,…

  • By Selwyn Duke What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast,…

  • By Selwyn Duke President Trump has made clear that he aims to trump Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) schemes. Democrats aim to trump him and keep them alive. And while the president will very likely win the current battle, in the federal political realm, what of the war? Is this just a matter of killing…