When Race Trumps Merit
How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives
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Olivia Lewis
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Does your workplace have too few Black people in top jobs? It’s racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It’s racist. Does your local museum employ too many White women? It’s racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to “systemic racism”. How else explain why Blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites and faculty lounges, their leaders asked?
The official answer for those disparities is “disparate impact”, a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests, expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants, the enforcement of the criminal law—all are under assault, because they have a “disparate impact” on underrepresented minorities.
When Race Trumps Merit provides an alternative explanation for those racial disparities. It is large academic skills gaps that cause the lack of proportional representation in our most meritocratic organizations and large differences in criminal offending that account for the racially disproportionate prison population. When Race Trumps Merit breaks powerful taboos. But it is driven by a sense of alarm, supported by detailed case studies of how disparate-impact thinking is jeopardizing scientific progress, destroying public order, and poisoning the appreciation of art and culture. As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk.
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- Sean
- 14-06-23
Excellent book
Excellent book, very informative but it’s alarming what is happening in America. It looks like their on a path to complete self destruction. Cultural Marxism and race Marxism is working its way through every institution. I looks like things will get a lot worse before real change implemented for the benefit of everyone. Scary
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- S. Morris
- 16-06-23
Devastatingly Incisive
I've recently been on a bit of a binge of books that deal with the hot political potato of the current "woke" lunacy that has embedded itself into western societies, and in particular within the U.S. I've never come across a book written by Heather McDonald, but I was soon blown away by her incisive style and highly articulate writing. She lays out case after case, example after example and has the shocking figures to back them up too. For a long time I have felt that what we've been told by the main stream media has been carefully edited to comply with an overarching racial narrative and this book eloquently, factually and shockingly proves this.
A quick word on the narrator, Olivia Lewis. Great books are made better by great narrators and this one reads flawlessly and her voice only adds to the analytical writing from McDonald.
Reading this will open the eyes of readers and open them wide. As bad as I felt things were, they prove to be far, far worse. When diversity quotas are being forced into science, engineering and medicine, it's lives that will be risked, not just profit margins. One gets a sense of a collective madness, an insanity that denies logic, reason and the evidence before their eyes in favour of following a dogged mantra, a political rhetoric aimed at winning votes at the cost of losing lives.
The sad thing is that most people ever likely to choose to read such a book, will be those of us who feel or know something isn't right, something isn't adding up. Alas, the rest out there that blindly believe what they are being fed will never do so, choosing to swallow the stream of skewed truths that flow from the lips of politicians and have corporations falling backward over themselves to comply with. In reality, the brain washing and desperate virtue signalling going on has many roots, not least of which is the prominent cancel culture that exists, but it also smacks of a pseudo religious zealotry that denies reality in favour of a desperate need to comply.
The west has slowly had its values eroded, belittled and smeared under the overarching and all fear inspiring claim of "systemic racism". However, it's the real truth that this book uncovers with devastating eloquence that paints the real picture, and it's a terrifying one at that.
If you are one of those who have unquestionably believed the racial narrative and have the courage to learn the truth, then you will be doing yourself a service and may help pull us all out of the dystopian future that current trends indicate.
Superbly written, with a plethora of hard facts to back it all up. This is one of the most impactful books on this subject matter and one I would urgently recommend.
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