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Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It Paperback – August 17, 2013

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Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.—ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real conversation"? How do these terms function as mere doublespeak for the expectation of full-scale capitulation to the views of "right-thinking people"? Those who have long been afraid to touch the issues that attend these words will take great reassurance in an articulate statement of the kind presented in Against Inclusiveness, where the author's approach is sober and extremely well reasoned, as he attempts to marshal truth and fairness as criteria in the examination of issues critical to modern social life.

Kalb argues that in current inclusiveness ideology, "classifying people" becomes an exercise of power by the classifier that denies the dignity of the person classified. All rational consideration of human reality is thereby suspended, and the result is something arbitrary and increasingly tyrannical. Against Inclusiveness lays the foundation for what an honest, forthright, real conversation on these matters might look like.

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"This critique is simply unsurpassed."--Paul Gottfried, author of After Liberalism and Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt

"Jim Kalb once again drills to the bedrock of the radically centrifugal liberal ideology that has devastated our society's institutions, its culture, its conceptions of normality, and its traditional patterns of social life."--Robert Jackall, Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs, Williams College

"Against Inclusiveness is a first-rate thinker's look at a paradox that is 'at once the perfection and the death of equality.'"--Christopher A. Ferrara, author of Liberty, the God That Failed

"James Kalb's analysis is both profound and commonsensical, and brings clarity and insight to an area fraught with fear and falsehood."--Carol Iannone, editor of Academic Questions and founding Vice President of the National Association of Scholars

"A timely, incisive work, Against Inclusiveness builds upon themes introduced in Kalb's previous work, The Tyranny of Liberalism, and presents a precise, methodical examination of the real-life dystopia we inhabit. It succeeds in carefully exploring and connecting an astonishing variety of issues." --The Catholic World Report

About the Author

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command (ISI Books, 2008), and his essays, reviews, and columns have appeared widely both in the United States and in Europe. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Angelico Press (August 17, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621380408
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James Kalb comes by his interest in political theory naturally, through politically active parents and degrees in mathematics and law (Dartmouth B.A., Yale J.D.). His parents showed him the importance of participation, mathematics showed him the importance of how principles are stated, and law taught him to study decisions to find the principles behind them. His writing explores the nature of liberal political society--what it is, what is wrong with it, why it seems so incontestable, what to do about it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inclusiveness or Punishment
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A family member is Executive Director of a small shelter for homeless families, including children, and veterans. Apparently, in order to enforce the virtue of "inclusiveness," the State of Connecticut has ordered that sobriety and drug tests shall no longer be used for admittance to the shelter. Violation of the directive would result in loss of state funding, a substantial part of the operating funds of this non-profit, which would force the closure of the shelter. On the other hand, allowing admission to persons under the influence of alcohol and drugs would present a clear and present threat to the safety of residents and staff.

Liberal progressivism under the guise of anti-discrimination, multiculturalism and inclusiveness turns common cultural norms upside down into phobias that must be eradicated by imposing punitive policies for not adapting to the destructive behaviors and secular morality of confused persons as well as those suffering from impulsive addictions and mental illness. Mr. Kalb provides clear and commonsense reasons why making distinctions about persons is, and has always been, essential to the operation of a civil society.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inclusiveness vs the freedom to associate
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It is a great pleasure to read a book by an author who has taken the pain to express his thoughts in a lucid and elaborate manner.

Whether you agree or not, the Catholic convertite James Kalb addresses the social challenges of the today embrace of diversity and inclusiveness and argues for the freedom of people to associate and build societies with whoever they want to associate with, including the right for the said group to also reject prospective members with diverging ideas about the purpose and ideals of the group.

The rationale behind the freedom to associate with select individuals rarely meet resistance when considering the micro level (e.g., private gatherings). When widening the scope towards the macro level the topic becomes increasingly disputed. Kalb puts forward rational arguments for why the freedom to associate should be expanded beyond the private realm and be on offer to any group of people that feel inclined to associate.
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karen in milford
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview of Diversity Inc. and How it Destroys Liberty
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2013
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There was nothing explosively new in this book - that has not been written about in other books, magazines, and online journals. However, there is a lot of original insight and new perspectives on the subject. It's worth reading particularly for anyone who is new to Diversity Inc, and the secular State Religion of Multiculturalism.
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Tommy b
5.0 out of 5 stars Seemingly counter-intuitive but very important to read
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Diversity for diversity's sake makes no sense. Yes, we should all get along, etc, but there is nothing wrong with maintaining a cohesive culture with common values. Cultures that maintain their common values are happier, and with less social disruption. There's room for everyone, but the current agenda of mixing everything together "just because" it seems egalitarian or whatever, doesn't mean that the outcome will be good for anyone. Watch Europe for the next decade and get back to me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Folly of Abolishing Distinctions
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013
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Kalb has presented a devastating critique of the utopian project of trying to abolish normal cultural and sexual distinction in the pursuit of a misguided notion of equality. Such distinctions are too intertwined with human life to be ignored or made irrelevant. In fact, the attempt to do so simply leads to their replacement with other distinctions, based on wealth, educational credentials, purported expertise, and bureaucratic status - distinctions which serve the interests of a new class.

This project destroys true community while claiming to pursue it, and results in alienation by reducing people to interchangeable ciphers, stripped of all constitutive particularities.

In the interests of freedom and well-being, we need to return to a better balance between understanding man as an individual and as one constituted by his relationships.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book, no matter what
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2016
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If you want to understand the profound directionlessness you experience marking bleak days scavenging amongst the ruins of a once great society, read this book. Kalb traces the path that lead the West to its death. The total horror of our present situation is laid bare.

You will recognize the triumph of evil that typifies the modern age; liberalism has turned mankind into undifferentiated, fungible livestock.

Should be required reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Devastating Attack on the Ideology of "Inclusiveness"
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2014
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Kalb's book is a thorough and cogent attack on the ideology of inclusiveness and the realm of political correctness. He does an excellent job of tracing back the movement to its historical roots in cultural Marxism and systematically destroys the pseudo-arguments used by the "inclusiveness" advocates. Highly recommended.
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