I can’t help noticing it. One of the crazes of our times is the attempt to force equality in almost all its guises, a hell-bent exercise in the ludicrous and insane. While flitting about online this morning, even as I was booting up, the Windows 10 startup pic was graffitied with reminders of female underrepresentation in technology and inventions. And, of course, they announce what Microsoft is doing to even the score … as if “underrepresentation” was enough to embark on a major campaign to redirect the company’s resources. The tendentiousness of it is astounding.
And this coming on the heels of reading Heather McDonald’s speech at Hillsdale College in “Imprimis”.* Her thesis is the danger of “#MeToo” morphing into a jihad (my words). She recounts the orchestrated shaming that would make the Khmer Rouge proud. In America’s boardrooms, professional associations, and cultural centers, the suits are running to the hills with proclamations of their own efforts to even the score.
Click on the link on the wallpaper and you’re sent to Microsoft’s “#MakeWhatsNext Patent Program” site. Hiding beneath the surface of these “programs” is a false premise: We are all the same and chromosomes are completely irrelevant. For these commissars, chromosomes should be put on a par with melanin. They assert that what is true for skin tone must be true for chromosomal development from blastocyte on. Really!
And to think that none of this matters to those caught up in the craze. Put your mind to imagining the consequences when a country tries to live a lie. No good will come of it.
RogerG
* Please read “The Negative Impact of the #MeToo Movement”, Heather McDonald, Imprimis, April 2018, https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-negative-impact-of-the-metoo-movement/?appeal_code=MK418EM15&utm_campaign=imprimis&utm_source=housefile&utm_medium=email&utm_content=april_2018_metoo&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–nx1IRYEsOfVpXhXSv_00N_BJDcN0RdDFM962GZJdXztH6TfJuTDMLRifXm7zued-LhNvNqUTlHHNRgIb5FxjnDohB4Q&_hsmi=62504373