Reader Fred Ray recommended to me, and I recommend to you, a fascinating article by Jack Shafer in SLATE about a renewed outbreak of “diversity” defensiveness at the Washington Post.
You need to read the whole article in order to appreciate the truth of Shafer’s conclusion:
…. In 20 years of Post watching, I’ve heard a dozen anecdotes from folks who claimed that an editor said they were being passed over for a promotion or hired because the slot had to serve diversity. Others say they were told to read between the lines for the reason they didn’t get the job.
Whether the claims are true or not, when diversity plays a significant role in hiring it makes race the prism through which folks start viewing their jobs….
One could imagine that this would create a bias – indeed, an arms race – to write stories favoring diversity.
This reminds me of the old Soviet Union, when a high-ranking Party official defected and subsequently denounced communism. The leadership of the Party would then quickly line up stooges to publicly extol the “virtues” of communism.
How did Goldberg’s distress at not being offered a job (because of not being Hispanic) morph into his search for a non-diverse workplace? This hysterical backlash screams “guilty conscience”.