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“And don’t expect great results in surgery.”

When the Bakke decision came down in 1978, I was actually in DC for a seminar for students between their junior and senior years in high school. I got back home a few days later and my father, an oral surgeon, sat down with me to discuss it.

He said that he had known, and did know, many minority doctors - and that they were ALL excellent, to a person. Some were women, and he reiterated that they were excellent doctors. However, he said that when I would go out on my own in the future, that if I was going to a doctor who was about 10 years older than me or less, that I should make sure to choose a white, male doctor. He said that it pained him to say that, because those 2 factors should be irrelevant in determining whether a doctor was good or not, but that this decision virtually guaranteed that people not qualified to be doctors (or who certainly wouldn’t be the best) would now start coming out of the medical and dental schools. He said that the tables had been turned - up to now (i.e. 1978), there had been discrimination against minorities and women, so those minorities and women who still - despite the bias - were smart enough to make it were usually a cut above the average white male. Now that the tables had turned, he said very clearly that the white males will have to be far better than average to make it into med/dental school and to get the residencies that they needed to go into surgery. Of course, he said, no average person can possibly know whether a particular person was actually good enough (or even spectacularly well-suited) to get into med school or not, and that those who were would be forever tainted with the broad brush of Affirmative Action.

I remember him being really, really ticked off about it, because a doctor should be a doctor first, not a member of some tribe or gender. THIS is what the liberals have done, he said - made everyone question those minorities and women with actual ability who have worked hard to achieve their position. This was the exact opposite of what they claimed to want, but he called them on it...it was no accident, he said, it was done on purpose. Leftists lie, period.

It was a valuable lesson for me - a bit of a bitter one, but nonetheless valuable.

Oh, and Bakke was supposed to be temporary. So when, exactly, do we eliminate these quotas? Isn’t 40 years enough?

“It’ll never happen. IQ will continue to be an unspeakable 3rd rail, even while our elites add points to those with lower cognitive ability.Expect more Boing 737 Max fiascos, collapsing bridges, etc.And don’t expect great results in surger”

Without question. Idiocracy is a documentary. People accept idiocy as funny and entertaining. Of course, everyone wants everyone else to be perfect geniuses.

We import idiot Indians and call them geniuses because they plagiarize bad code off of google searches, but talk in funny accents we can’t understand. It’s why the 737 MCAS system is a programming disaster.