![]() If a new applicant revealed themselves as belonging to one of these categories, Brooks suggests, they would be either consciously or unconsciously ranked lower in the hiring process. ![]() He suggests a vicious cycle universities (Brown is the example given) tend to employ nonreligious, left-leaning professors, who would feel uncomfortable “sharing an office with someone who was pro-life, a member of the National Rifle Association, or an evangelical Christian” (Paragraph 14). Brooks illuminates the lack of conservative and religious viewpoints in academia, suggesting that universities’ concept of diversity treats race as its only measure. In addition to discussing the lack of diversity in American communities, “People Like Us” argues that institutions like colleges, which promote diversity intensively on a surface level, are in practice not very diverse-particularly in the realms of politics and religion. ![]()
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