Posted on 05/10/2023 5:24:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Whatever you had planned to do for the rest of the day, please drop it and read this right now: Heather Mac Donald's new book, "When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives."
It seems that in the hysteria that followed George Floyd's death in 2020, we agreed to destroy all of Western civilization -- law, music, art, education, policing, science and medicine -- to make up for black people not doing well on standardized tests.
Mac Donald cites not hundreds but thousands of institutions that have flung aside standards in order to more fully dedicate themselves to the sole, driving purpose of our nation: boosting black people's self-esteem.
To consider just one arena, I don't think you're going to like the medical care you'll be getting under the new regime. Just like in the wildly successful Soviet Union, science must be subordinated to politics, specifically "racial justice."
The American Medical Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) have all agreed that medicine is racist.
The New England Journal of Medicine "presents a nonstop stream of articles on such topics as the 'Pathology of Racism,' 'Toward Antiracist Allyship in Medicine,' and 'How Structural Racism Works -- Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities,'" Mac Donald writes.
And "Scientific American produced a 'special collector's edition' on 'The Science of Overcoming Racism.'"
(It's fantastic that scientific organizations are finally dedicating themselves to something important like racism, and not something boring, like cancer or Alzheimer's disease -- Unpack your privilege!)
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
If you don’t have a lot of time for a book.. I can personally attest that the military has been doing this since the late 80s. After the second… we’ll we have to send a female.. came my way, I got out.
I do not want a school or promotion axed on any other than I deserve it more than the next person.
The left will tell you the hard truth.. the military is a successful socialist system in the US.
Work 20 years get paid for what a total of 60 or 70 years..
FAC
The usual pattern is that the river valleys or coastal areas become civilized and then decadent. When they become so self-indulgent, pleasure-oriented, lazy and cowardly, the barbarians sweep in from the wastelands — mountains, steppes, forests, deserts — and take over. Our plan has been to “export our decadence” so that other societies are so like us that they won’t attack us, because we aren’t likely to reform ourselves.
Who’s civilized? We think of civilization in terms of equality, humanity, kindness, mercy, and judge earlier ages harshly as barbaric and uncivilized. But those earlier ages didn’t think of civilization in terms of equality. They had their own ideas of justice and fairness, but didn’t believe in human equality, so they might think of us as not fully civilized. Similarly, they might or might not value mercy, but didn’t let it get in the way of their stricter idea of law and justice, so they would think of us as undisciplined and our society as unbalanced.
We think we are so smart because we know how to peck pidgin English on a little keyboard and communicate with somebody three miles away while we ignore the person sitting right next to us.
I have been reading some Civil War books. Just letters between husbands and wives and people like Frederick Douglas.
Those were highly intelligent, well-spoken people.
We have met the barbarians, and they are us.
Yo, dis is yo pilot speakin. You suckas is gonna die.
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