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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Princeton University ^
| June 22, 2020
| Clifton Mark
Posted on 06/01/2021 7:40:37 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica
They do boil over the fact that one person born in The U.S. to a wealthy family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a poor family. In some ways, a person born in The U.S. to a poor family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a wealthy family.
Our poor people have more "stuff" and more living space than the middle class of Europe (on average and in general.) Yet the elites in our country train our poor to believe they're victims.
And they are, to a degree -- victims of the very elites who oppress them by pretending to care for them.
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:12:43 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
To: Rurudyne
Gratitude itself increases generosity — and opens the space to receive more.
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:13:59 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
To: gspurlock
Rejection of meritocracy is demonstrable racism. If meritocracy = white supremacism, the person who thinks that thinks that whites have the greatest merit. Post of the day!
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:24:51 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
To: shooter223
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:26:37 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:29:06 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
To: redgolum
The first generation accumulates.
The second generation consolidates.
The third generation dissipates.
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:29:42 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
To: ProgressingAmerica
The assumption is that it is one or the other, luck or merit.
Wrong.
Usually it takes a bit of both.
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:39:49 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: Reily
PARC XEROX didn’t understand the value of the GUI. They wrote it off as a novelty.
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posted on
06/01/2021 11:15:57 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: ProgressingAmerica
Golly, Wow, white people are just so darn lucky snot fair to the rest.
Princeton should lower their tuition too, to make it fair for all.
In fact they should not charge anything because, in actuality they’re not worth anything.
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posted on
06/01/2021 11:21:09 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
To: reg45
Yes that was what I was later told !
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posted on
06/01/2021 11:21:27 AM PDT
by
Reily
To: aquila48
China has a history of rewarding merit that goes back thousands of years.
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posted on
06/01/2021 11:22:49 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
06/01/2021 4:38:18 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Red Badger
" Okay, the next time a Princeton prof need brain surgery, they can get the last in the class to do it, it’s all the same right?............... "Indeed, and midgets should be able to play in the NBA. No, meritocracy is not perfect since there are different levels of grace (DNA, environment, accidents, etc.) that factor in, but it is the best system considering the alternatives - and the author offers none that I saw, but liberals want to be the one;s who determine who gets what), esp. when it is understood that those who were given more grace should voluntarily help those who try but are truly disadvantaged.
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posted on
06/01/2021 5:53:01 PM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
To: Starboard
Here’s another old saying...
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. :-)
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posted on
06/01/2021 5:59:50 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Best concept so far. (Force them to live up to their own standards.)
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posted on
06/01/2021 6:17:06 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
To: ProgressingAmerica
This one is another “classic” out of Princeton in the last few days... what a disaster —
— you’d have thought that Woodrow Wilson was the worst it’d ever have come up with, but no, here we go from Princeton that the “Classics” exclude Latin and Greek and now that talent is racist.
What a sweet pudding is that little orange and black tiger.
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posted on
06/01/2021 8:05:29 PM PDT
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: TBP
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posted on
06/01/2021 9:36:00 PM PDT
by
gspurlock
(http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
To: devere
It won’t. We’re already in free fall.
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posted on
06/01/2021 9:38:41 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: Silentgypsy
Force them to live up to their own standards. One of Alinsky's rules.
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posted on
06/01/2021 10:10:03 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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