Posted on 08/07/2022 5:22:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The age of accomplishment has given way to retaliatory hiring and magical thinking.
Decades ago, two high-achieving daughters of our friends got turned down for admission to medical school in Washington, D.C. because two minority applicants with far lower test scores were admitted to the school in their place. The girls were sad, angry, and disillusioned and without recourse. They had worked hard their entire young lives, being second-generation "white" Iranians with a superb work ethic passed on to them by their parents. The girls rose to the top of every challenge they encountered and were assured of entry into medical school by any decent standard of judgment. But they came up against an indecent standard of judgment; racism. The idea that hard work and achievement will get them there was shattered because less deserving applicants were given black privilege.
This story is replicated thousands of times around the country every day. Activists deliberately behave as though white people have all the advantages when it is really they who now have the advantage. And just so there is no misunderstanding, I do not for a moment believe that black Americans are intellectually inferior. You cannot listen to Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Candace Owens, or Chloe Valdary (to name only a few) without knowing that. It is folly to elevate the less competent over the more competent. It is human nature for people to set hierarchies of preference because that is how we advance, by choosing the better. No serious person chooses the less qualified person over the best qualified person. That is a recipe for decline and mediocrity.
Blacks constitute 14% of the U.S. population but are overrepresented in TV and radio commercials. Black privilege can be seen on every TV drama series, such as Netflix's series Bridgerton,
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Insightful post.
Thank you.
From the article:
“I do not for a moment believe that black Americans are intellectually inferior.”
I guess the author does not trust those “racist” IQ tests and college entrance exams.
The left has a solution for that problem. If you don’t like what the measurement instrument is telling you, smash it into a thousand pieces!
No serious person chooses the less qualified person over the best qualified person.
Unless your a loser liberal it’s a feel good moment.
Well, I'm onto YOUR wokeness for using "Blacks" instead of "blacks".
“I do not for a moment believe that black Americans are intellectually inferior” -— Whatever. A few examples does not mean much.
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