The DEI crowd is always ranting on and on about being, among other things, inclusive. Society is a hellhole because too many people are not inclusive. A recent incident at Princeton University may cast a slightly different light on their worldview (sarc).
Dr. Tom Woods reports:
Professor Robert George of Princeton University may have a stellar scholarly reputation, but he dissents from major aspects of the current dispensation — same-sex marriage among them — so he riles up a portion of the student body.
Not long ago, a student brought Professor George for lunch at one of the university’s “eating clubs,” described as “private institutions resembling both dining halls and social houses, where the majority of Princeton undergraduate upperclassmen eat their meals.”
The following month, a new policy was suddenly introduced: in order to maintain an “inclusive environment” (yeah, sure), guests who are not friends or family may not enter the premises during hours when food is being served unless prior approval has been received from undergraduate officers, club staff, and the alumni Board of Governors.
Ah! They want to demonstrate being inclusive by excluding someone that they disagree with.
The student who had invited Professor George writes:
Within minutes following the announcement, I learned from friends that the policy had been crafted in direct response to student complaints about my Feb. 14 lunch with my professor. After seeking out the club manager, I learned more: A “group of membership” — whose identities and precise numbers were unspecified — felt “caught off guard” when they saw my professor in Charter, and they were deeply upset by his presence. In the future, at minimum, they wanted “the right to not be in that space” at the same time as him. After receiving their complaint, the club acceded to their demands.
I imagine there must have been a lot of mopping up that needed to be done at the aforesaid eating club. There must have been puddles of water all over the club from all the snowflakes that melted.
So don’t ever forget: demands for “inclusivity” always mean their opposite. This is an effort to exclude Professor George, who himself never sought to exclude anyone from that building.
Discovering the new policy while browsing Twitter, George himself tweeted: “So…students have to give notice to bring me as a guest for lunch at a club…that I myself belong to? And, as a member, am entitled to use whenever I like, and bring guests of my own?”
So Professor George turned out to be a longtime honorary member of this particular eating club. The new policy meant to exclude him, therefore, won’t even apply to him. Serves the savages right.
The problem here for Princeton is that more and more Americans are speaking out against such lunacy. This approach by the Left to suppress ideas that they disagree with is failing. Most true Americans understand the need for open debate on policy issues even when such individuals disagree.
America is a melting pot of ideas where, hopefully, over time, the best bubble to the top. Princeton, instead of being an incubator for ideas, has become a communist enclave where dissent is not permitted.