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The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley Paperback – April 1, 1999

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The Diversity Hoax is a book about diversity on campus, written by those who know it best - students. These personal essays from UC Berkeley law students from across the political spectrum offer hopeful solutions to an important problem in higher education - a problem universities are working hard to keep quiet. They will motivate students nationwide to start exercising their rights to free speech and express their diverse opinions on various topics, including what diversity even means.

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"The Diversity Hoax is required reading for anyone concerned about legal education in America. These intriguing essays show how the illiberal orthodoxy of "political correctness" is stifling debate at an institution that should be an open marketplace of ideas. By describing the problem so clearly and candidly, this excellent book may be the beginning of its resolution." -- Edwin Meese, III former U.S. Attorney General, Boalt Hall Alumnus

"A frightening look at how the left wing thought-police have invaded one of America's most prestigious law schools." -- David Horowitz, author of Radical Son and The Politics of Bad Faith

"David Wienir and Marc Berley are to be congratulated both for their principles and this illuminating book. They believe in true diversity of ideas, including those that disagree with the main premise of this extraordinary collection. An indispensable follow-up to The Shadow University, The Diversity Hoax bears moral witness to a scandal of immense proportions: freedom of speech and conscience are being trampled at American college and university campuses. Bravo for an essential job well done!" -- Harvey A. Silverglate, co-author with Alan Charles Kors of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

"David Wienir, Marc Berley, and the contributors to The Diversity Hoax are profiles in courage." -- Dennis Prager, author of Think a Second Time and Happiness Is a Serious Problem, syndicated radio talk show host (KABC)

"The publication of The Diversity Hoax shows students aren't going to acquiesce to such tactics anymore." -- Forbes

"This fascinating and powerful collection of thoughtful young voices is eye-opening even to those versed in the machinations of diversity in higher education. It is a book of experiences more than abstractions, and it opens us to the inner lives of those usually too young and too busy to speak for themselves. I was disturbed and yet also moved as I read the stories of people so young already fighting so hard for their integrity. No one can read this book without admiration for its writers and horror at the situation they find themselves in. There is no other book like it." -- Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character and A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

"Vital...insiders' perspective on the culture wars." -- Boston Book Review

About the Author

David Wienir is a second-year student at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Marc Berley is president of the Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition (FAST), a not-for-profit student organization.

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition (April 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966994000
ISBN-13: 978-0966994001
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Customer Reviews: 13 customer ratings
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,901,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22618 in Higher & Continuing Education
- #38768 in Sociology (Books)
- #2716 in General Constitutional Law

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John F. Rebello

The sad fact is that after all the years since this ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2016

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The sad fact is that after all the years since this book has been published, the experiences expressed in "The Diversity Hoax" are even more true today in the year 2016. Political correctness has run amok. I have been assaulted by the same lack of rationality, not to mention lack of respectfulness, in discussing views on topics such as legal/illegal immigration. Thoughtful argument supported with facts is met with a deaf ear and the same old rebuttal: racist, xenophobe, bigot or worse. So, I empathize with the experiences that the writers of these essays went through. With regard to the reviewers who have given it one star, "The Diversity Hoax" does not pretend to be anything more than what it is: a collection of amateur student essays. In fact, the editors make this clear at the very onset in the introduction. Nevertheless, this book is just as pertinent today, if not more so, as when it was written.

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Thought control in the name of diversity.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 1999

It must have taken a lot of courage for David Wienir and his contributors to bare their stories before the eyes of their fellow students and administration at Boalt Hall. You can read it in the writing style contained in these essays. Many of the students are tentative, defensive, overly careful in their prose and in their choice of words. It is possible to infer much anguish in the authors of these chapters.
Recently there have been some exposes of the direction our elite universities have taken. The Shadow University, by Kors and Silverglate; The Killing of History, by Windschuttle; Beyond All Reason, by Farber and Sherry; Literature Lost, by Ellis; and Fashionable Nonsense, by Sokal and Bricmont each seeks to expose the destructive trends of thought control in places formerly dedicated to the pursuit of truth above that of political correctness. David Wienir's book is the first account I know of coming directly from the students' point of view. As such it presents a tragic picture of the decline of a once great institution.
I was an undergraduate at Berkeley during the early sixties. What the students fought for in those heady days is a bygone dream overtaken by anti-intellectual tactics. Read the reviews in Amazon carefully. And read this book to decide for yourself.

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Lisa McKinley

The Problem with Orchestrated Diversity

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2001

First of all, I'd like to say: 1) I have not read all the other reviews here, 2) I am not - and never will be - a law student and, 3) I do not hold a four-year college degree (yet). I am a regular person who enjoys non-fiction. I am also a "minority" who resides in California.
I highly recommend this book. It was very engaging and easy to read. I was fascinated and engrossed by these essays. I was also dismayed at the realization of the state of our institutions of higher learning. This book had a huge amount of relevance to me personally, because I have often been puzzled by the way liberal society has attempted to orchestrate diversity. Throughout history, minorities (including women) have fought bitterly to be treated "equally" and yet they've subjugated themselves to something as unbalanced and prejudicial as affirmative action. In all my life I would never dream of demeaning the blood, sweat and tears of my grandparents, who worked exhaustively as migrant farm workers in Central California, by accepting a decree that basically says I am not capable of succeeding because of my ethnicity.
I currently live in a small city with a high Hispanic populace. There is constant raging debate at the city government level about Hispanic representation. A small but vocal (much like the protesters in this book) group has instigated a lawsuit through the Justice Department, seeking to divide our puny city into voter districts in order to allow more Hispanics to be voted onto our city council. But I assure you, race is not the issue, politics is the issue. I am fully Hispanic, but theoretically, if I were to run for office and be elected, I guarantee that I would be politically dismissed by that small but vocal group! This mentality is everywhere. Unfortunately, it will continue to grow unless more books like this are written and read.

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Steven Fantina

One of the Most Important books of the Nineties

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 1999

Diversity Hoax presents a collection of sensible and sapient essays that are needed to counter the juggernaut of fanatical multiculturalism that has a stranglehold on much of academia today. Written be law students at Berkley, the writers lament how what was once the embodiment of true liberalism has become an intellectual concentration camp of politically correct dogma that unjustifiably condemns any and all who dare to differ.
Especially chilling is the way that a devotion to so called "diversity"-arguable a noble goal, obliterates the benefits of diverse ideas. Berkley unfortunately has become an assembly line that mass produces different color clones. They may be different races, but the thought process is constrainingly monolithic.
Despite the dreary collegiate portrait painted by this representation of students, the book is more hopeful than dejecting. These brave young voices are thriving against the tsunami of group-think as they dare to speak out against this new breed of racism that calls itself "diversity." They courageously embrace the principles of Martin Luther King and make a strong case for treating people as individuals. With future lawyers like these, America's trouble-plagued judicial system may have better days ahead.

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