In my openDemocracy column on 19 April, I argued that “intellectual diversity” initiatives – which, in their aim to ensure conservative representation, are completely unnecessary – “represent a coded reactionary effort to reclaim power by the beneficiaries of white patriarchal domination, who may feel oppressed by authentic diversification even though they are not.”
But this genteel strategy for ensuring the continuation of white male domination in US society is not for all conservatives.
Take, for example, right-wing Catholic provocateur Matt Walsh, a man who has recently been making headlines for his relentless attacks on transgender women and anyone who accommodates them. Even Fox News is too ‘inclusive’ for Walsh, who last week took time off from his targeted anti-trans vitriol to embark on a racist rant aimed at diversity initiatives in general.
