Posted on 02/22/2021 4:33:53 AM PST by gattaca
“What would crush the college scam is overturning Griggs v Duke Power, which prohibited companies from using standardized tests in hiring and promotion decisions, if such tests had worse pass rates for minority candidates.”
You’re about the first person that I’ve run across who knows of the massive change in hiring practices that Duke Power v Griggs imposed upon the American people.
Since Griggs effectively ended the ability of large corporations to use internal testing to screen their hires, corporate America decided to have colleges do it for them.
From the day that Griggs became law, companies began insisting on college degrees for virtually every position that they offered. This drastically reduced opportunity for bright kids who haven’t the time or money to spend on college. Suddenly colleges became the gatekeepers for employment, and they have exploited that windfall ever since.
Griggs v Duke Power is a direct consequence of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which conservatives of the time opposed (Goldwater, Buckley, Reagan). And yet today every media conservative worships the Civil Rights Act like it’s Holy writ. Guess which ones had better sense.
Goldwater (and I assume Reagan too) oppsoed the 1964 bill because he said it would lead to quotas. Hubert Humphrey one if the sponsors begged Goldwater (who prior to this had been very pro-civil rights legislation) to vote for this bill. Humphrey claimed it couldn’t possibly lead to quaots if it did he would eat the bill !
Reagan got his start in politics as a spokesman and supporter of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign. So while Reagan wasn’t in office he did speak out against the Civil Rights Act, as did Buckley.
Conservatives of that time recognized that it would be a vast expansion of government control over daily life, with government agencies able to charge people of what essentially are thought crimes. The entire Woke universe gets its power from that Act. And yet some of our talk media geniuses gush over it like Hubert Humphrey reborn.
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