Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.--ubiquitous words in
21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police
the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons
to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real
conversation"? How do these terms function as mere doublespeak for
the expectation of full-scale capitulation to the views of
"right-thinking people"? Those who have long been afraid to touch
the issues that attend these words will take great reassurance in
an articulate statement of the kind presented in Against
Inclusiveness, where the author's approach is sober and extremely
well reasoned, as he attempts to marshal truth and fairness as
criteria in the examination of issues critical to modern social
life.
Kalb argues that in current inclusiveness ideology, "classifying
people" becomes an exercise of power by the classifier that denies
the dignity of the person classified. All rational consideration of
human reality is thereby suspended, and the result is something
arbitrary and increasingly tyrannical. Against Inclusiveness lays
the foundation for what an honest, forthright, real conversation on
these matters might look like.
"This critique is simply unsurpassed."--Paul Gottfried, author
of After Liberalism and Multiculturalism and the Politics of
Guilt
"Jim Kalb once again drills to the bedrock of the radically
centrifugal liberal ideology that has devastated our society's
institutions, its culture, its conceptions of normality, and its
traditional patterns of social life."--Robert Jackall, Professor of
Sociology & Public Affairs, Williams College
"Against Inclusiveness is a first-rate thinker's look at a
paradox that is 'at once the perfection and the death of
equality.'"--Christopher A. Ferrara, author of Liberty, the God
That Failed
"James Kalb's analysis is both profound and commonsensical, and
brings clarity and insight to an area fraught with fear and
falsehood."--Carol Iannone, editor of Academic Questions and
founding Vice President of the National Association of Scholars
A timely, incisive work, Against Inclusiveness builds upon
themes introduced in Kalb s previous work, The Tyranny of
Liberalism, and presents a precise, methodical examination of the
real-life dystopia we inhabit. It succeeds in carefully exploring
and connecting an astonishing variety of issues. --The Catholic
World Report
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