Those with high relative “merit” see that as a reasonable criteria to evaluate students in a competitive world. Those without merit would prefer race and politics. Warikoo’s “study” showed that students are hypocrites who pursue their own interests, just like those with low “merit”. Who’da thunk it? Ps: the racism behind her pursuit of “equality” would embarrass David Duke.
My theory: in science, engineering, and medicine “merit” makes all the difference in the world, ultimately in life and death terms. Defining merit and grooming talent are important, but incompetence will lead to systemic or spectacular failures.
In soft/arbitrary fields such as Warikoo has experienced, “merit” is tangential because results often do not matter, except in some abstract, academic sense. What difference does it make if the “Marxist Critique of Merit” or “Dialectics of Form: Labor and Gender in the Unpublished Fragments of Ben Jonson Poems” are pursued by illiterate morons or the brightest, hardest working students? By all means, admit the duds to social programs, and steer the achiever to STEM.
This article is racist.
Damn white people...
And merit based hiring of faculty would … oh, never mind.
Merit based admissions, which “reproduce inequality”, are racist according to this individual. IOW, he’s admitting to believing that minorities are less capable of achieving merit than others. So, who’s the racist?
True social justice is the best, most qualified candidate gets the job no matter what they look like. Not the best minority candidate getting the job.
Hey Prof, that must be your problem.
Simple test: if it comes from a University professor in a made-up field should be ignored. Better yet, cue the laugh track.
I’m racist, sexist, and homophobic. Deal with it, Miss Warikookoo.
Sounds like someone who thinks Handicapper General should be a cabinet level position when the Democrats regain the presidency. People who push that sort of evil nonsense should be be called “glampers” in honor of the Vonnegut story Harrison Bergeron.