Posted on 02/22/2023 5:56:33 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Sorry folks, other than meritocracy is not acceptable in a society where we routinely use -- and rely on -- things that are dangerous.
If you'd like to go back to the 5th Century or so, then its fine. Which is where we're headed if we don't cut it out. Personally, I prefer not to get there by being poisoned due to a train derailment or freezing to death when its -5F outside.
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Somebody else posted this, I don't remember who or where, but it sums it up nicely:
There's a thin veneer of hyper-competent professionals who keep the lights on and the water drinkable. Replace them with the incompetent and the water turns brown and the lights go out.
That about sums it up. Although you might look up Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureacracy just for grins and giggles.
Wokeism is going to precipitate a serious breakdown of the West's technological society. And for them, that's a feature, not a bug.
Hiring someone to work for your company using any reason other than meritocracy is just plain stupid...
The feminization of the military will not be more gentle, sensitive, and nuanced. It will be more arrogant, dogmatic, and murderous. Women do not handle absolute power well.
Fifth century? B.C. as in Pericles and Socrates, or A.D. as in Attila the Hun?
My 1st hand experience with the diversity BS was when I considered joining the city fire rescue where I live.
This was way back in 1978 or ‘79.
Of course before computers and the internet, I saw an ad in the paper stating job openings for fire rescue training program so I went to city hall to apply.
When I found the job board there it was in capital letters:
“Hiring county fire rescue trainees”
“BLACK APPLICANTS ONLY NEED APPLY”
I ended up spending 31 years working for the DoD where diversity is king......or queen really.
All affirmative action hiring policies do is cause the mission to be less effective as it otherwise would be, keeps the REAL most qualified applicants from being hired and may even be responsible for getting people killed in certainsituations.
That thin veneer has been all but erased with imported hordes of third world immigration and the cult of multiculturalism.
Funny but that was my thought as well. Yes. I do think women will more readily push the button. They are generally driven more by emotion. Men are pretty straightforward in their dealings. Women work at all sorts of angles.
That’s funny!!! Sad but funny!
It’s why we’ve seen an increase in Native American applicants to universities.
I recall the landmark 1978 racial quota Bakke case where despite having higher test scores and grades Allan Bakke was denied admission to University of California Davis medical school. Bakke won at the Supreme Court and was admitted to medical school and went on to become a Mayo Clinic physician. Patrick Chavis, reputed to be the minority student admitted with lower scores than Bakke, became a physician who later lost his medical license for incompetence and lost a major malpractice case where he was also found guilty of gross neglect and incompetence in his treatment of three liposuction patients one of whom died.
Where I worked there were critical tasks that had to be done—and then a layer of bureaucracy to fill out the government required paperwork.
Special (almost all white) teams were created to do the critical tasks—while the affirmative action hires filled out the paperwork.
It worked well—as long as nobody talked about it—kinda like fight club—the first rule is nobody talks about fight club.
Where I worked there were critical tasks that had to be done—and then a layer of bureaucracy to fill out the government required paperwork.
Special (almost all white) teams were created to do the critical tasks—while the affirmative action hires filled out the paperwork.
It worked well—as long as nobody talked about it—kinda like fight club—the first rule is nobody talks about fight club.
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