DIE: DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY—THE DEATH OF CREATIVITY

(Note: Here’s a nice graph that somehow makes this seem less stupid as this should be)

For many creative people, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, are some of the dumbest ideas put to a page. It’s like explaining all the things that literature doesn’t have to say, but does so brilliantly. But not many creative people in Hollywood can come out and say, “This fucking sucks,” because it most certainly does fucking suck. For those who don’t know or are aware, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, according to the university of Iowa’s website, breaks it down, as Diversity is “aspects of human difference, social identities, and social group differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, creed, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual identity, socio-economic status, language, culture, national origin, religion/spirituality, age, (dis)ability, and military/veteran status, political perspective, and associational preferences.”^[1] Does this sound like a bad idea, no, but ultimately, a prison to creative people. Yes, a young poor bi-racial boy might be able to get into college, but after that, it’s not going to offer him much in terms of speech. And many children today are fine with restrictive speech. They don’t want to offend people. Which to most creative people is death by handcuffs. Being in college is supposed to make us think differently, say things that we aren’t supposed to say, and if a creative person can’t be free to say or create the art they want, nothing would ever exist. That is the point.

            Inclusion “refers to a campus community where all members are and feel respected, have a sense of belonging, and are able to participate and achieve to their potential.” It’s amazing to me that people don’t see this as a problem. What is a problem is that this is false advertising. Where colleges now have safe spaces and can let you opt out of reading books like Melville, Toni Morrison, or Phillip Roth, this is in turn is creating a mental illness by creative proxy. A creative person needs excessive or offensive material to reach their maximum potential. What Inclusion teaches us is that no one is allowed to reach that potential through inclusionary thinking. Everyone must be a nice ringworm to one another, eating each other’s asshole, and never aiming to offend or think differently. To be inclusive is to admit you’re a drone, the Borg, the smooth brain thinkers who don’t face mortality, death, or prepare for the realities the world will bring them. Not everyone is going to accept that you’re trans, gay, or even straight, because that’s not the world. And to be creatively inclusive is intellectual bankruptcy.