That’s what the author of this article in the current Chronicle of Higher Education thinks. (Subscriber site.)

Professor Thomas H. Benton (a pseudonym for an English prof who teaches at a Midwestern liberal arts college and often contributes to The Chronicle), contends that the commitment to “diversity” has merely become “a ritual profession of faith at the core of the establishment.” Hard to disagree with that.

Here’s the quotation that may make you want to read the whole piece:

But when people who claim to be in favor of diversity actively help economically disadvantaged people of all colors; when they count people from China, Iran, Lithuania, South Boston, Camden, and Appalachia as ‘diverse’; when they support constitutional rights of people who disagree with them on ideological grounds, or on matters of faith; then I will believe what they say about diversity.