Posted on 04/26/2022 4:41:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you want the best brain surgeon to operate on you, or the best pilot to fly your plane, too bad. You'll get the most diverse one instead.
Joe Biden is overseeing massive sociological damage. Meritocracy and competence, bulwarks of our society, are being replaced with diversity and equity. Biden has surrendered to the extreme left wing of the Democrat party, which endorses the replacement of meritocracy with race-based criteria for advancement. "If you're black or Pacific Islander or Hispanic, go to the head of the line for a job, a promotion, a place at Harvard," said author David Horowitz. "If you're white, forget that place at Harvard, you're screwed."
Biden's dislike of meritocracy is supported by current notions of diversity, equity, and Critical Race Theory. Meritocracy and diversity are opposites. Instead of promoting people based on competence, advocates for diversity want promotions to be based on race and sex. Heather Mac Donald, author of The Diversity Delusion, has warned about the consequences of this trend. Countries like China and Russia, she said, are meritocracies. When you are a scientist in China, they don't give a damn about your race or sex. If the U.S. falls prey to identity politics, we will never be able to compete on the world stage. Within twenty years, we could easily turn into a third-world country.
Evidence of the trend is everywhere. Colleges and universities are using a quota system for admission based on race. United Airlines announced last year that by 2030, 50 percent of its flight school students will be chosen from among minorities and women. At 30,000 feet, who wants an affirmative action pilot sitting in the cockpit?
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The left does not even seem embarrassed by the lunacy. They have made discrimination the most important thing in society.
Has the author been asleep for 40 years? All this was set in motion in academe and government many decades ago and the momentum just keep increasing, destroying all that has made the U.S. a smart nation built on and honoring merit and integrity.
This is why I will probably never fly again, unless for some sort of major emergency (or perhaps expatriating). Two weeks ago I moved from the big city to rural America to escape this insanity.
:: the replacement of meritocracy with race-based criteria ::
Therein, we have “white privilege” and “white supremacy” as the boogey-men.
If you want your affirmative-action MD, you can keep your affirmative-action MD.
If you don’t want an affirmative-action MD, too bad, so sad.
“Not Sure” Biden was installed as president to accelerate the eventual idiocracy.
If? IF??
Too late, Ed. That genie left the bottle long ago.
All of Biden’s appointments are tainted....based on sex, color and/or gender (whatever the hell that is today).
The left have collectively departed from a reliance on reality, instead following the lodestar of their spurious narrative. The pathetic Jen Psaki eg became tearful out of fear that Florida will actually protect their children from the sexual predators who are welcome in her world. They fume that Elon Musk is a “danger to democracy” because he wants to increase freedom. So no surprise that their enfeebled minds rebel at the thought that “getting the best man for the job” might actually be a good idea.
The way things are going ... there will be no place to move and get away from the insanity. I have lived in a comparable place of “normal people” for well over 30 years. The insane are now moving in, to get away from the destruction and high taxes they were supporters. The CCP virus shutdown of the country, the federal giverment paying people not to work gave a lot of people a lot of time to think about moving elsewhere.
It’s quite sad to see what has happened.
Eventually something will have to give ... this cannot continue, just like illegal immigration.
Shadows of Mao’s social engineering. Move the learned people out to the provinces to till the soil and move the uneducated (malleable) farmers into the vacated instructor’s chairs at the universities. Only for 10 years, he said, though the switch back never really happened. Punishment for leaving you assigned farm: Death.
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RE: “Under Biden, meritocracy is breathing its last gasps”
That headline should read,
“Under Biden, The United States is breathing it’s last gasps”
We are being buried under the new religion(s). The holy trinity of which is Diversity, Acceptance & Globalization.
This all started with Eisenhower when he sent troops into Little Rock for that states rights dustup.the only governor who stood up to the feds was Wallace.
The only sanctuary is rural America providing you have the $$$ money to live without t a job. A house smack dab in the middle of a 5 acre plot surrounded by thickets and trees would make a good natural barricade.
Every doctor, dentist and veterinarian on commercials is black now.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have no idea what color the doctors, dentists, and veterinarians in TV commercials are. I don’t watch TV at all.
“Meritocracy and competence, bulwarks of our society, are being replaced with diversity and equity.”
The moronic deep state is well known for hiring based on race, affirmative action and political correctness.
Before that, the deep state was always stupid, but it was strong.
Now, the deep state is still stupid, but also weak.
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