Yes, we constantly hear about this in the Medical profession-patients want a provider that looks like them. Well with all the different insurance plans, good luck with that. And besides, doesn't competence trump diversity?
Richard Bickers describes it best in his comment here so I will simply add that federal legislation and policy has been in place since 1964 that legally and effectively established discrimination against straight white males. This promoted and resulted in millions of positions being filled by less competent candidates (aka Affirmative Action, Diversity, Quotas). This has continued for sixty years and across all institutions and industries. Indirectly it has resulted a lowering of expectations that over a few decades has led millions of blacks to suffer from black on black crime, highest rates of father less homes, children born out of wedlock, failure rates in grade level math and reading proficiency tests. In a sense, Affirmative Action was the Democrat’s Trojan Horse gift to blacks.
No, diversity trumps competence and has ever since the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision (see https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision ) ruled as permissible clear violations of both constitutional protections and statutory law in pursuit of the nebulous goals of (racial) diversity.
Richard Hanania argues that the seeds of diversity uber alles (and wokeism more generally) were planted by the anti-discrimination provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as interpreted, expanded, and eventually turned inside-out (à la Orwell's "Animal House" rules) by regulatory and judicial fiat (see https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights ).
Yes, we constantly hear about this in the Medical profession-patients want a provider that looks like them. Well with all the different insurance plans, good luck with that. And besides, doesn't competence trump diversity?
Richard Bickers describes it best in his comment here so I will simply add that federal legislation and policy has been in place since 1964 that legally and effectively established discrimination against straight white males. This promoted and resulted in millions of positions being filled by less competent candidates (aka Affirmative Action, Diversity, Quotas). This has continued for sixty years and across all institutions and industries. Indirectly it has resulted a lowering of expectations that over a few decades has led millions of blacks to suffer from black on black crime, highest rates of father less homes, children born out of wedlock, failure rates in grade level math and reading proficiency tests. In a sense, Affirmative Action was the Democrat’s Trojan Horse gift to blacks.
No, diversity trumps competence and has ever since the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision (see https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision ) ruled as permissible clear violations of both constitutional protections and statutory law in pursuit of the nebulous goals of (racial) diversity.
Richard Hanania argues that the seeds of diversity uber alles (and wokeism more generally) were planted by the anti-discrimination provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as interpreted, expanded, and eventually turned inside-out (à la Orwell's "Animal House" rules) by regulatory and judicial fiat (see https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights ).