1 00:00:02,140 --> 00:00:07,300 It's appalling that, in the 21st century, there is still so little diversity on American 2 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:08,820 college campuses. 3 00:00:08,820 --> 00:00:09,820 This. 4 00:00:09,820 --> 00:00:10,820 Cannot. 5 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:11,640 Stand. 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,100 It’s not who we are. 7 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:16,400 It’s intolerable. It’s time we demand a change. 8 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,340 It’s time to stage a protest, to storm the Dean’s office. 9 00:00:20,340 --> 00:00:22,380 We will not be ignored. 10 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:24,180 Diversity is our strength. 11 00:00:24,180 --> 00:00:26,980 I’m not talking about diversity of skin color. 12 00:00:26,980 --> 00:00:28,740 Been there. Done that. 13 00:00:28,740 --> 00:00:33,500 Today’s campuses are more racially integrated than at any time in history. 14 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,780 And I’m not talking about gender diversity. 15 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:39,120 Women already make up the majority of college graduates. 16 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:44,190 And if your concern is non-binary gender, there is no place on earth more accepting 17 00:00:44,190 --> 00:00:48,080 of hims, hers, zims and zirs than a college campus. 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,900 I’m not even talking about sexual diversity. 19 00:00:50,910 --> 00:00:55,610 You can pretty much experiment with anyone you want in any way you want, as long as you 20 00:00:55,610 --> 00:00:59,710 get a consent form signed and notarized in advance. 21 00:00:59,710 --> 00:01:05,180 No, the diversity I’m talking about is diversity… of thought! 22 00:01:05,180 --> 00:01:07,480 Let me say it again in case you missed it. 23 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,140 Diversity of thought. 24 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:14,760 That’s right: people expressing different points of view on an issue. 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,619 At most colleges today, that’s a dangerous, revolutionary idea – if that different point 26 00:01:19,619 --> 00:01:22,200 of view is not on the Left. 27 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,840 The moment you enter college, you enter an indoctrination center. 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,510 Remember orientation week? 29 00:01:27,510 --> 00:01:30,240 It starts there and never stops. 30 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,520 They tell you to be open-minded, but they don’t really mean it. 31 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,800 Almost all your professors are on the Left: nearly 12 to 1, Left to Right according to 32 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,440 a recent study by Econ Journal Watch. 33 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:47,360 There are many departments at many colleges that don’t have a single conservative voice. 34 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,210 The administration invariably supports Leftist positions. 35 00:01:51,210 --> 00:01:56,960 And, all those diversity administrators, they depend for their livelihood 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,860 -- that means their paycheck -- on creating victims. 37 00:02:00,860 --> 00:02:07,040 Diversity of race or gender or sexuality or any of the other distinctions du jour that 38 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:14,060 universities glorify are, at best, superficial and, at worst, just plain destructive. 39 00:02:14,060 --> 00:02:16,909 It’s destructive to any real learning. 40 00:02:16,909 --> 00:02:21,769 If you don't study Shakespeare because he was a white male, you have been deprived of 41 00:02:21,769 --> 00:02:26,129 learning from the most brilliant playwright who ever lived. 42 00:02:26,129 --> 00:02:31,680 And it’s destructive of a peaceful campus environment because it pits racial, ethnic, 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,680 and gender groups against one another. 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,860 In other words, diversity, as practiced on your typical college campus divides, 45 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:42,620 not unites people. 46 00:02:42,620 --> 00:02:44,360 And diversity of thought? 47 00:02:44,370 --> 00:02:46,200 The free exchange of ideas? 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,140 You know, what college is actually supposed to be about? 49 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:50,580 Not happening. 50 00:02:50,580 --> 00:02:55,000 If you’ve been in college for a few years, ask yourself this: When was the last time 51 00:02:55,010 --> 00:03:00,560 you heard a professor or a TA make the argument that capitalism has lifted more people out 52 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,799 of poverty than any other economic system? 53 00:03:03,799 --> 00:03:07,299 Or that socialism always leads to poverty? 54 00:03:07,299 --> 00:03:13,519 Or that the post-World War II order created by America has been the freest and most prosperous 55 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:15,470 time in human history? 56 00:03:15,470 --> 00:03:22,000 Or that the cause of high crime rates in black communities has very little to do with historic racism? 57 00:03:22,060 --> 00:03:26,780 And God forbid if a conservative speaker should show up on campus 58 00:03:26,780 --> 00:03:29,200 and dare to say any of these things. 59 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,959 If the ideas of the people on the right have so little merit, why bother to protest? 60 00:03:34,959 --> 00:03:38,370 Shouldn’t their bad ideas just die on their own? 61 00:03:38,370 --> 00:03:45,680 Isn’t the purpose of a liberal education to expose students to differing points of view? 62 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,560 Turns out that the liberal in liberal education means leftist. 63 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:56,719 Here’s how the University of California at Berkeley, the pinnacle of political correctness, 64 00:03:56,719 --> 00:04:03,709 describes itself: “Our goal is to transform UC Berkeley into an equitable and inclusive 65 00:04:03,709 --> 00:04:10,430 academy of the highest caliber – one that fully honors the diversity of our students, 66 00:04:10,430 --> 00:04:12,569 faculty and staff." 67 00:04:12,569 --> 00:04:14,269 Give me a break. 68 00:04:14,269 --> 00:04:16,640 Berkeley needs to be transformed? 69 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,260 It’s not diverse enough? 70 00:04:19,269 --> 00:04:24,300 After all these years of expanding equity and inclusion? 71 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,340 Bull-crap. 72 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:31,480 It positively reeks of cissexist heteropatriarchy! 73 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,040 Say that three times. 74 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,520 I don’t know what it means, but it sure sounds bad. 75 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,860 Walk around the Berkeley campus, or almost any campus, and you will see plenty of blacks, 76 00:04:41,860 --> 00:04:47,080 Hispanics, gays, lesbians – even a straight white guy or two. 77 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,840 College is a place where they want everyone to look different, but think exactly the same. 78 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,680 It’s like a freaking cult. 79 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:02,280 At some point you have to stand up, separate yourself from the crowd and say, “Enough!” 80 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:06,020 It’s time to diversify thought on campus. 81 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:09,240 It’s time to demand a real education. 82 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,820 God knows, you’re paying for it. 83 00:05:12,820 --> 00:05:19,040 I’m Charlie Kirk, President of Turning Point USA, for Prager University.