I love that the first comment to this post is this from the author:

"I was expecting more comments about this."

Clearly a post designed to be provocative more than anything else. It's just not that interesting or novel. The idea that certain ideas can't be expressed and by expressing them you're making yourself free is fine, but not that interesting if your only goal is to be noticed.

Does anyone actually think that forcing people to sign these things is making them more empathetic?

> All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they are going to contribute to “diversity”. What you’re supposed to do in these, and what everyone damn well knows you’re supposed to do, is (i) talk about your race, gender, and other “identity group” traits that it would be illegal for the university to explicitly ask you about, and (ii) talk about your activism on behalf of left-wing identity politics. Note: If you write a statement merely explaining how you will scrupulously avoid discriminating, or explaining how you will contribute to intellectual diversity, your application will be tossed in the trash. No university will say this out loud (yet?), but, again, everyone knows that.

> My claim: Most proponents of “diversity” do not value diversity. In fact, they are passionately against diversity.

Very accurate. Instead the proponents of so-called 'Diversity' really are segregating others. Suggesting or even saying 'people of color' is no different to saying 'colored people'. Both phrases are nonsensical and creates an us vs them battle.

This pretending to care about 'Diversity' is quite a cult and a trojan horse for silencing those who disagree with the pretending.