Merit has no place in America. He is guilty of being white and favoring a meritocracy. Off with his head.
We are doing nobody any favors with affirmative action; it deceives the “preferred minorities” as to their true value in the real world. At my job it has been very liberating, letting men like me stop working the unpaid overtime that was expected of many office “professionals”; women with fabricated titles, unclear responsibilities, and no performance metrics were leaving on time, so now we all do - what’s good for the token goose is good for the working gander.
I suspect a lot of the feelings of inferiority among “preferred minorities” arises from the fact that outside of their affirmative action cocoon, they hear people using big words they don’t understand and know they aren’t the real equals of their male white & Asian peers.
This is particularly an issue in areas abandoned for the most part by whites but with significant numbers of white public employees; the non-whites want their piece of the pie, and merit isn’t even part of the discussion.
It’s all fun and games until the non-whites are expected to pay their own public employees (of all colors); they want the jobs, but not the bill. If you could see the Newark NJ cops laid off a few years ago (160+), there may have been 10 that were in good physical shape; there were obviously obese minority women, but because it was last in/first out, the affirmative action tokens were sent packing. I assume the few guys in good shape were recently-hired military veterans. Newark NJ wants to be a chocolate (and caramel) city, but the chocolate and caramel residents can’t pay for police protection - so they no longer get it.