Brilliant article. The quota system insults the intelligence of us all. Those who benefit from quotas as well as those who are punished for not meeting the requirements of quotas. The judgment of people based not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character has been lost long ago. The present obsession with race is, ironically creating conflict between races. Corrective measures must first, do no harm. I will never forgive the DNC for race baiting to advance their fortunes. It is destructive and immoral.
Affirmative action is structural racism against Black people.
The dirty little secret is that affirmative action hurts Black people and the people who run affirmative action programs know it. I don't have access to my files, but they admitted to this in the Michigan cases.
It's obvious why. Black students thrown in with a class of stronger students drop to the bottom or out at a high rate.
The consequence of this is that Black people have not been able to close the gap. The solution, instead of getting rid of harmful programs, is to make racism worse everywhere and call it "equity." And they are drawing in more groups as a smokescreen.
Quite frankly I am sick of hearing how it hurts blacks. It hurts whites much more, and I have seen extremely qualified white males in my children’s high school not getting in to Ivy League schools or the equivalents while less qualified minorities do. Our kids are being denied opportunities on the basis of their race. I quite frankly don’t give a rats ass about this hurting blacks, when clearly they are being boosted beyond their abilities. Do you really think blacks mind being at Harvard on the basis of their skin color? If they did why did they accept?
You should care about it hurting Black people because they are crying "racism" to explain the damage they are doing and calling for more racism as the solution.
They will continue to cry racism no matter what policies are instituted. I don’t want harm to come to anyone, but right now these policies are benefiting them at the cost of my children
The Dems have always been the racists, and still are. The “helping” (that actually hurts) replaces the chains. Telling people they need help keeps them down, it doesn’t uplift. They get their votes now and they don’t have to pay for room and board.
It doesn't exactly replace the chains but it is the same mindset. Biden's pre-announcement that he was going to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court was an expression of his White Supremacist mindset. He was announcing is belief that a Black woman couldn't win the nomination on a level playing field.
White Nationalists and Democrats have the same core belief: That Black people are not developed enough to live in a world of liberty and equality. White Nationalists want to separate the races so they can have liberty and equality. Democrats just want to end equality.
Black people would do just fine if we let them have equality. But Democrats scream racism if you try.
Do an honest evaluation of the third world. Look like Harvard material to you? All men are not equal, folks, I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. If you don't qualify for Harvard, you don't go to Harvard. For the good of our country, you, obviously, put the best and brightest in positions of power. The color of your skin or what's in your pants doesn't matter. If we don't wise up, and get rid of these crazy democrats, who know nothing about running a country, we're finished.
Everything MacDonald said is so obviously correct it should not even need to be said. The fact that it's controversial today shows only that Enlightenment values are mostly dead in our culture, and maybe that even calls into question whether those Enlightenment values were derived from unsound premises in the first place: how rational can humans really be if so many of us fall for manifestly idiotic nonsense like identity politics.
Heather's eloquent prose exposes the truths that anyone who has been within a stone's throw of any academic environment during the course of the past 30-odd years instantly recognizes. It is a cancerous rot that has metastasized throughout Western academia and has now brought us to a point where University degrees are oftentimes worthless and Federal Judges now refuse to hire clerks from Stanford.
This has been a natural and expected trajectory from the cancer's early stages in the 1960's, when Leftists/Marxists/Communists/Hippies were so inspired by "Uncle" Ho Chi Minh, Chairman Mao, Che Guevara and other mass-murdering psychopaths that there was a fervent desire among the hygienically-challenged Left to 'change the world', and to do that they rightly fixated on academia and the media as a start, knowing that these were easy inroads to soften the West's underbelly in preparation for a greater acceptance of political revolution.
Just as it has taken sixty-odd years to bring this Dark Age upon us, it will take considerable time and effort to undo, but here in America we are Blessed with the 'secret weapon' of Capitalism. Partnerships must be made between thoughtful political leaders and exasperated business leaders desperate for competent employees to change academia, one school at a time. Great strides are being made by Preside....err, excuse me, Governor DeSantis in Florida but every inch taken back from the ghouls gleefully trashing Western Civilization is hard-fought and we may not see a complete reversal of the DIE madness in our lifetimes.
We must try though, because if we become Ill or injured, none of us want to be forced to make an appointment with the incoherent pothead doctor from the movie "Idiocracy" but that's precisely where we're headed...thanks exclusively to the stranglehold the Left has on academia, the media and popular culture.
Please somebody contradict the following hypothesis and provide a proof or even rationale to the contrary:
When meritocratic selection is supplanted by subjective racial/gender or characteristic du jour selection how does this not put a system in a self-fulfilling decline?
If one is not qualified by a lifetime of training and achievement to run the race how does one ever win the race?
It would be rational to assume that the more subsidized a system is, and the greater the expectation for continued subsidy, the greater the probability that the already inferior system continues to atrophy and becomes progressively worse off.
It would appear that the DEI solution is to progressively atrophy the entire system to legitimize it’s less than rational existence.
Hence, eliminate the MCATs; pass-fail and then eliminate organic chemistry; pass-fail the medical licensing system; etc...aka dumbing down the entire system to sacrifice meritocracy to ill-conceived social engineering.
I don’t think this is an odds-on smart choice in discovering the cure to any of the world’s serious challenges...this is not the paradigm that will cure cancer. In fact, this is the paradigm that will make the mediocrity of an AI practitioner a lifesaver compared to the fantasy land paternalism demanded by the DEI social engineering.
And thank God for scholars like Heather MacDonald who not only realize this but have the strength of character and intellect to expose the gaslighting for the destructive force that it is.
Actually, not to throw gasoline on the fire, but traditionally, becoming a man was an accomplishment. The transition to adulthood has historically been very different for boys than girls, i.e., much more onerous, and often more dangerous. Masculinity is something that needs to be achieved. Femininity? Not so much.
Thank you for sharing this important information Ann. In the spirit of mass communication/journalism, Jane Pauley, originally from Indiana, astute anchor of and on the New York City Today Show with Bryant Gumbel and later preceding Deborah Norville, then Katie Couric. To or while in her endeavors with Bryant Gumbel on the Today show. Ms. Pauley, said, in a written interview, (paraphrase)that the “biological burden” of the species is with/defers to the woman. That being said, certain personal and individual heuristics often “at play”. In spite of and in the spirit of “transitioning.” Thank you Ann for allowing participation of comments.
I'd bet serious money that Jane Pauley did not write that. Not that she wouldn't think she ought to agree with it. I'm sure she'd say she agreed with every word of it. I'm saying that she would assume-hope that it expressed what she "felt," i.e., something that someone in her position and millieu would be expected to say.
To be blindingly clear: I'm saying that this was ghost-written for her by an experienced someone much younger than her, a more recent college graduate, who learned how to "communicate" like this writer of leftist gobbledygook and works for her employer in that capacity. Anyone who thinks this response was not vetted by Pauley's employer is dreaming.
Brilliant article. The quota system insults the intelligence of us all. Those who benefit from quotas as well as those who are punished for not meeting the requirements of quotas. The judgment of people based not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character has been lost long ago. The present obsession with race is, ironically creating conflict between races. Corrective measures must first, do no harm. I will never forgive the DNC for race baiting to advance their fortunes. It is destructive and immoral.
Affirmative action is structural racism against Black people.
The dirty little secret is that affirmative action hurts Black people and the people who run affirmative action programs know it. I don't have access to my files, but they admitted to this in the Michigan cases.
It's obvious why. Black students thrown in with a class of stronger students drop to the bottom or out at a high rate.
The consequence of this is that Black people have not been able to close the gap. The solution, instead of getting rid of harmful programs, is to make racism worse everywhere and call it "equity." And they are drawing in more groups as a smokescreen.
Quite frankly I am sick of hearing how it hurts blacks. It hurts whites much more, and I have seen extremely qualified white males in my children’s high school not getting in to Ivy League schools or the equivalents while less qualified minorities do. Our kids are being denied opportunities on the basis of their race. I quite frankly don’t give a rats ass about this hurting blacks, when clearly they are being boosted beyond their abilities. Do you really think blacks mind being at Harvard on the basis of their skin color? If they did why did they accept?
You should care about it hurting Black people because they are crying "racism" to explain the damage they are doing and calling for more racism as the solution.
They will continue to cry racism no matter what policies are instituted. I don’t want harm to come to anyone, but right now these policies are benefiting them at the cost of my children
The Dems have always been the racists, and still are. The “helping” (that actually hurts) replaces the chains. Telling people they need help keeps them down, it doesn’t uplift. They get their votes now and they don’t have to pay for room and board.
It doesn't exactly replace the chains but it is the same mindset. Biden's pre-announcement that he was going to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court was an expression of his White Supremacist mindset. He was announcing is belief that a Black woman couldn't win the nomination on a level playing field.
White Nationalists and Democrats have the same core belief: That Black people are not developed enough to live in a world of liberty and equality. White Nationalists want to separate the races so they can have liberty and equality. Democrats just want to end equality.
Black people would do just fine if we let them have equality. But Democrats scream racism if you try.
I think the two Uncle Tom movies are worth watching.
Do an honest evaluation of the third world. Look like Harvard material to you? All men are not equal, folks, I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. If you don't qualify for Harvard, you don't go to Harvard. For the good of our country, you, obviously, put the best and brightest in positions of power. The color of your skin or what's in your pants doesn't matter. If we don't wise up, and get rid of these crazy democrats, who know nothing about running a country, we're finished.
Everything MacDonald said is so obviously correct it should not even need to be said. The fact that it's controversial today shows only that Enlightenment values are mostly dead in our culture, and maybe that even calls into question whether those Enlightenment values were derived from unsound premises in the first place: how rational can humans really be if so many of us fall for manifestly idiotic nonsense like identity politics.
Heather's eloquent prose exposes the truths that anyone who has been within a stone's throw of any academic environment during the course of the past 30-odd years instantly recognizes. It is a cancerous rot that has metastasized throughout Western academia and has now brought us to a point where University degrees are oftentimes worthless and Federal Judges now refuse to hire clerks from Stanford.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11929519/Federal-judges-announce-refuse-hire-clerks-Stanford-Law-School-woke-students.html
This has been a natural and expected trajectory from the cancer's early stages in the 1960's, when Leftists/Marxists/Communists/Hippies were so inspired by "Uncle" Ho Chi Minh, Chairman Mao, Che Guevara and other mass-murdering psychopaths that there was a fervent desire among the hygienically-challenged Left to 'change the world', and to do that they rightly fixated on academia and the media as a start, knowing that these were easy inroads to soften the West's underbelly in preparation for a greater acceptance of political revolution.
Just as it has taken sixty-odd years to bring this Dark Age upon us, it will take considerable time and effort to undo, but here in America we are Blessed with the 'secret weapon' of Capitalism. Partnerships must be made between thoughtful political leaders and exasperated business leaders desperate for competent employees to change academia, one school at a time. Great strides are being made by Preside....err, excuse me, Governor DeSantis in Florida but every inch taken back from the ghouls gleefully trashing Western Civilization is hard-fought and we may not see a complete reversal of the DIE madness in our lifetimes.
We must try though, because if we become Ill or injured, none of us want to be forced to make an appointment with the incoherent pothead doctor from the movie "Idiocracy" but that's precisely where we're headed...thanks exclusively to the stranglehold the Left has on academia, the media and popular culture.
We need to reclaim our Nation and our birthright.
Publicly funded education is a bad idea and should be eliminated. gtvflyers.com
"Being black, gay, or gender-fluid are also not accomplishments"
When the creature in question has no merit, bordering on no reason for existing, they have to cling to something.
Please somebody contradict the following hypothesis and provide a proof or even rationale to the contrary:
When meritocratic selection is supplanted by subjective racial/gender or characteristic du jour selection how does this not put a system in a self-fulfilling decline?
If one is not qualified by a lifetime of training and achievement to run the race how does one ever win the race?
It would be rational to assume that the more subsidized a system is, and the greater the expectation for continued subsidy, the greater the probability that the already inferior system continues to atrophy and becomes progressively worse off.
It would appear that the DEI solution is to progressively atrophy the entire system to legitimize it’s less than rational existence.
Hence, eliminate the MCATs; pass-fail and then eliminate organic chemistry; pass-fail the medical licensing system; etc...aka dumbing down the entire system to sacrifice meritocracy to ill-conceived social engineering.
I don’t think this is an odds-on smart choice in discovering the cure to any of the world’s serious challenges...this is not the paradigm that will cure cancer. In fact, this is the paradigm that will make the mediocrity of an AI practitioner a lifesaver compared to the fantasy land paternalism demanded by the DEI social engineering.
And thank God for scholars like Heather MacDonald who not only realize this but have the strength of character and intellect to expose the gaslighting for the destructive force that it is.
Great Article
Actually, not to throw gasoline on the fire, but traditionally, becoming a man was an accomplishment. The transition to adulthood has historically been very different for boys than girls, i.e., much more onerous, and often more dangerous. Masculinity is something that needs to be achieved. Femininity? Not so much.
Finding the best and the brightest has always been the American way. No more this is the demise of America! Adios America, Ann was right!
A winner in the "Best Casual and Wholly Appropriate Use Of The Term "Iatrogenic" So Far Today" award category! Heather is wikkid smaht.
Thank you for sharing this important information Ann. In the spirit of mass communication/journalism, Jane Pauley, originally from Indiana, astute anchor of and on the New York City Today Show with Bryant Gumbel and later preceding Deborah Norville, then Katie Couric. To or while in her endeavors with Bryant Gumbel on the Today show. Ms. Pauley, said, in a written interview, (paraphrase)that the “biological burden” of the species is with/defers to the woman. That being said, certain personal and individual heuristics often “at play”. In spite of and in the spirit of “transitioning.” Thank you Ann for allowing participation of comments.
I'd bet serious money that Jane Pauley did not write that. Not that she wouldn't think she ought to agree with it. I'm sure she'd say she agreed with every word of it. I'm saying that she would assume-hope that it expressed what she "felt," i.e., something that someone in her position and millieu would be expected to say.
To be blindingly clear: I'm saying that this was ghost-written for her by an experienced someone much younger than her, a more recent college graduate, who learned how to "communicate" like this writer of leftist gobbledygook and works for her employer in that capacity. Anyone who thinks this response was not vetted by Pauley's employer is dreaming.