diversicrat

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

diversity +‎ -crat

Noun[edit]

diversicrat (plural diversicrats)

  1. An administrator who is hired in order to meet an organization's goals for maintaining diversity.
    • 2003, Peter Wood, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, page 228:
      Instead, we live in the age of diversiphile students, diversidact professors and diversicrat college administrators.
    • 2012, Mark Steyn, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, page 155:
      She was a diversicrat—a booming industry in Eloi America.
    • 2013, Craig L. Frisby, Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students:
      As a sociopolitical movement, diversity spawns the creation of “diversiphiles” (“professional multiculturalists” who appear to be obsessed with the aggressive promotion and dissemination of diversity ideology) and “diversicrats” (administrators in business, government, and/or academia hired specifically to regulate and enforce diversity quotas, goals, and timetables; Woods, 2003).