Obeys the demand from student zealots that the school institute “diversity training” for all incoming students, that is. The school this time is Indiana State. A friend in Indiana sent me the story.

But isn’t diversity training a good thing? Doesn’t it help to “understand our differences” and “bring us together”?

Or, just possibly, could it be a scam that accomplishes nothing at high cost?

Hans Bader makes a strong case for the latter proposition in this Liberty Unyielding piece.

Bader quotes psychologist Peter Bregman: “Diversity training doesn’t extinguish prejudice. It promotes it.” Indeed so, and sometimes companies that have gone in for “training” where the “trainers” overdo it on demonizing whites and men have had to face lawsuits over that. I don’t know if any colleges or universities have similarly had diversity training boomerang, but the prospect can’t be ignored.

Diversity training suffers from the same basic flaw as racial preferences — the mistaken idea that Americans can’t learn how to get along unless the wise people in charge deliberately bring them together to sing kum-bay-yah.