Posted on 07/23/2020 7:48:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The left calls for racial quotas in the name of progress,
The American dream is that any citizen, regardless of sex, race, creed, or color, can rise on his determination and merit. History is littered with examples of the reformers who worked to realize that dream, pushing the most influential institutions in the country to prize talent and hard work over wealth and connections.
The introduction of standardized testing, accessible to all American teens, was part of that push. Harvard University began administering a standardized test to all applicants in 1905. Its effect was profound and immediate: historically a landing spot for the Protestant upper crust, the school began admitting far more public school kids, Catholics, and Jews.
The increasing number of Jewish students was a major concern for Harvard president and committed progressive A. Lawrence Lowell. He tried to implement a quota on Jews, then pivoted to an admissions process that used intangible factors such as "character" and "manliness." It worked: Jewish applicants consistently fell short.
These sorts of hazy, intangible assessments are now championed by the left. In the name of racial equality, the woke now seek to dismantle meritocratic norms and return to the quota systems that practices like standardized testing were designed to relegate to the trash heap of history.
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Merit now seems to go to the winners of the Intersectional Grievance Olympics.
>>then pivoted to an admissions process that used intangible factors such as “character” and “manliness.” <<
If harvard used a “manliness” test today, it would be devoid of both faculty and students.
I demand the NBA and the NFL get their numbers right so their players reflect our society.
No merit for anything . . . so they are going to convince all hormone laden young men that they have to marry the ugliest girl they can find.
I’m gonna have to hire the dumbest, laziest bum I can find to employ in my business because he/she/it is the right color or orientation.
I’m 63. Maybe the 49ers should sign me to be their middle linebacker. . . . No need for merit here!!
I don’t give a rat’s @$$ how woke you are, merit is involved in virtually every human decision and to think otherwise runs counter to fundamental human nature. Even some idiot protesters are valued more because they “protest better”, or their crap-hole leftist ideology is stronger than someone else’s. This is purely PHONY. . . hold them to their own standard. RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!
Who is John Galt?
Merit disqualifies all collectivists. They cannot triumph without killing it.
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