The article also highlights the lowering of standards in the medical and legal fields in an attempt to achieve racial parity. Also in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Admission standards for colleges are being lowered.
In addition, the article highlights why police officers are not making certain arrests, or why district attorneys are not prosecuting whole categories of crimes. The reason is to reduce the disparate impact on black criminals.
The article was adapted from a talk delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar. The speaker demonstrated courage in giving this speech.
IMHO the lie of “disparate impacts” harms young blacks as well by telling them the lie that there’s no reason to try to be successful in life because hiding underneath every bed is a white supremacist who’ll take it all away.
Heather Mac Donald is awesome. Her articles at City Journal etc. are excellent.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Heather+Mac+Donald+site%3Afreerepublic.com&source=desktop
Great read.
I’m claiming racism by the NBA. /s
It also brings society down overall, because those who can outperform aren’t being allowed to do that and pull us all ahead as a result.
She’s good and right.
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LOL. Reading beyond titles is not the custom at FR.
Mcdonald has been saying this for years, if not decades. Nothing has changed. It’s only gotten worse. This is tilting at windmills, because the far left is deeply entrenched in power and committed to using this bias to destroy our civilization. It is intentional, it is violent and sociopathic. And it is winning.
Wut about da NBA?
This is a great article no doubt, but fortunately I am very well aware about those facts, but very few people pay any attention or give it any thought. I do believe the population is driven or channeled on purpose on this path to Doomsville by various sources such news media, some big business, and many sources of education as well as other governmental institutions and agencies.
The point being is, if this country continues on this destructive path the future looks very bleak at best and I wouldn’t rule out some form of dictatorship as we are already halfway there. If you don’t believe it just look what’s happening to one of the best Presidents this country ever had accomplishing more in his short tenure than the previous last two combined and now these criminal elements in our judicial system are salivating at the thought of putting him in jail. And what does a good portion of the public do, just shrug it off and hardly pay any attention. I for one as hard as I may try just don’t see any good endin
Some points made here are good. But the analysis is not very thorough—for example there is also an interest gap.
But the lowest of the low IQ in some narratives such as this is the attempt to cause division between different groups of Americans.
All of that “gap” was created by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
“If a cancer research lab, for example, does not have 13 percent black oncologists—the black share of the national population—it is by definition a racist lab that discriminates against competitively qualified black oncologists;”
Jordan Peterson blew this argument out of the quarter WRT women in the work place. Same argument. Zero merit.
On the same topic, Charles Murray wrote The Bell Curve in 1994 and still probably has to have body guards.
There is a single false assumption behind these insanities, and that assumption is that “all races are, on AVERAGE, the same.”
If you start with that assumption than the “disparate impact” theory makes sense, because the argument goes, “if all races are on average the same then why are some races doing better than others? It must be because of some systemic “discrimination”.”
But all races are obviously not on AVERAGE the same.
A much better explanation for the “disparate impact” is the inconvenient fact that AVERAGE black IQ is 85 vs. white at 100 and east asians slightly higher.
So, no, all races are not, on AVERAGE, the same!!
You accept that simple truth and then, suddenly, everything we see makes sense
But everyone is afraid to state that simple, proven truth, and so we come up with these insane, societally destructive policies like DEI -aka, Affirmative Action on steroids.
The Chinese don’t have DEI - everything is based on merit. They will kick our asses... and we deserve it!
An excellent book on this subject is “Discrimination and Disparities” by Thomas Sowell.