Diversity vs Competence

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I can understand that, assuming this was true, some people might not be willing to speak out about it.

But OP is making a pretty far-fetched claim, that this is going to "destroy advanced civilisation". For that, I'm going to need more than just "well of course there's no evidence, it's a cover-up".

The most substantial piece of evidence that the article cites is a report published at the behest of Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw, and the article exaggerates what the report says. Can we agree that Cotton and especially Crenshaw are not people who would shy away from saying "Biden's woke Navy is putting American lives at risk by discriminating against white men"? But they don't say that, they just say "there is too much paperwork and sensitivity training".

In the UK, there was recently a scandal where the Royal Air Force was found to have briefly implemented racist and sexist hiring practices, at the expense of white men. It was covered by the entirety of the mainstream media, from the BBC to the Daily Mail. Similarly there's constant handwringing about whether reserving six-week internships for poor, disabled and ethnic minority applicants to give them a hand-up in applying for an actual job is discrimination against rich white kids. If illegal "positive discrimination" was as rife in the UK as this article is suggesting it is in the US, people would be blowing the whistle and the media would be covering it.

The US has a different history of race relations to the UK, which might create some different dynamics. But I don't think there's a shortage of people who would complain if their employers were implementing those sorts of practices, and I especially don't think the media would be shy about covering it. You have both a larger number of investigative journalists and a wider range. Fox News, for better or worse, is much more competent and relevant than its UK equivalents. You newspapers like the Washington Times, the Boston Herald, the Washington Examiner, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, and no shortage of credible podcasts, websites, and magazines that skew to the right (Reason, National Review, the Dispatch, etc.). Heck, even outlets like the Washington Post and the NYT seem much more open to that sort of thing than, say, the Guardian in the UK, who still published the RAF story.

Is it theoretically possible that someone, somewhere, is illegally or immorally discriminating in order to benefit "diversity"? Sure. Some of it happens in plain sight. Affirmative action in college admissions is both wrong, and hurts the people it is designed to help (it's also not quite as bad as legacy admissions, which for some reason don't cause the same amount of hand-wringing). But the idea that this is sufficiently widespread and sufficiently severe to cause a civilisational collapse, or even more modest things like an increase in air traffic accidents, is something I'd need to see some serious evidence for, and the more pervasive the issue is then the less convincing I'd find "but it's all being covered up" as an explanation. People can and do use that to justify almost any premise you can think of.

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The United States Is Currently Embroiled in a Pandemic of Ignorance And Unions Far Away From Peace;

Whereas, India, Just Successfully Landed As the First Country Close to the South Pole of the Moon;

True, We Could Use Some More Indian Expertise in Our Country in Terms of Diversity Ongoing;

Incompetency, Is surely Not Limited to Minorities in the United States As Per Melanin of Skin;

And Affirmative Action Was A Legal Process Used to Give Folks A Hand Up Who Had Been Pushed Down; Not Unlike
the Assistance That is Given Still to Women; Yes, in Need With Children; No Matter What They Weigh or What They Eat.

The Dollar For Working Folks Is Taxed At Lowest Levels Ever; Even in Richmond Virginia, Minimum Wage is Increasing

to 15 Dollars Per Hour, Currently 12 Dollars Per Hour Now; And That Means at Current Single Tax Rates and Standard

Deduction for the Year 2023, 25,000 Dollars Per Year is taxed at about 4 Cents on the Dollar; Of Course State

Tax Counts too Yet the Politicians North of Richmond Don't Determine that; Nor Do they Support Any Kind of

Q-Anon Conspiracy Theories of Child Abuse on Any Island. The World Just Went Through A Global Pandemic;

Inflation Happened to Most Everyone Around the World and the Inflation in the United States in Terms of

Staples Like a Gallon of Gasoline Are Still Much Lower Than Most Other Countries in Our Western Developed

World; A Best Measure of the Competence of a Country Doesn't Need A Science Abstract or Economic Analysis

At All; Sure, it May Be Measured By the Number One Song on the Top 100 Billboard List For What It Says

About Our Country; And the Ignorance of Those Who Support Leaders With Almost No Human Empathy,
Compassion, Character, Honor, Or Integrity Have to Offer As Far As Insuring A Country Sticks to Together

Somewhere Close

to Truth to Start

Off With And Somewhere

Closer to Lifting the Veils Away From Ignorance...

Give 'em Lies Called Truth, Give 'em Fear, Give 'em Anger,

Give' em Hate to Draw Whoever They Can Lower Than They Already Feel...

Yet Closer to the Truth, Closer to Character, Honor, Integrity, Empathy, And Compassion

Will Do A Lot For

Human Competence

in Cooperation; However,

As Long As Human Beings are

Addicted to Instant Gratification,

of All types and The Science Studied

Reality of Humans on Average With Less than

The Attention Span of A Gold Fish; Yep, Less than

3 Seconds Holds True, 'Houston,' We've Got Core Problems

Down Here on Earth; Humans Without the Ability to Pay Attention

Will Not

Be Very

Competent

in Whatever They

Attempt to Do in Life...

It Takes More Overall Attention Than A TwitterX
or Tik Tok Breath of Human Excellence, Indeed FOR REAL.

i've Watched Human Competence Drain Away As An Administrator,

Programmer, Manager, And Supervisor Since Decades Ago in a Locality

With Very Little Diversity At All; Common Factor, Loss of Attention Span And Motivation to Get the Job Done Indeed.

That Comes From Within And is Nurtured Through Self-Discipline and the Ability to Delay Gratification; Precisely

What Is Missing

Most in a World

of 'Soma' in So Many Forms of Instant Gratification;

It's Why You May Have to Make Songs With So Many Lies

to Rile Folks Up to Make Bucks off A 'Folk Song' of 'Pure' Ignorance

Yet Paradoxically,

Spelling Out

The Truth With Lies...

Dear Lord How Do You Fact
Check With an Attention Span of 3 seconds...

Give 'em More Fear, Anger, Hate, To Capture THeir Ire In Behavioral Addictions

to the Dopamine and Adrenaline Neurohormones THAT Creates For A Quick 'Fix'...

Poverty

of Understanding
Our Self and What
Makes Each Other
Really Tick is A Greatest
Poverty And Incompetence oF all...

Or Dear Lord We Could Sure Use Some Real 'Deliverance' From All oF THAT...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro

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Eh, I was commenting more generally on the theme than on the specific article and the claims made therein, its been on my mind a while as I do find some of the reality denial crazy making. I don't think you really grasp how deep the rot runs in some places, just to give you a local example of a related thing, my home state recently lowered the penalty for committing a drive by shooting because that's crime is disproportionately committed by black people, and so locking too many of them up for too long had bad optics for local progressives. Would you care to venture how this was covered locally, when it was covered at all? Do you think that people who are willing to go easy on drive by shooters, a particularly depraved crime due to the high danger to bystanders, would have qualms about easing up qualifications for jobs like pilots and surgeons in the name of "racial justice"? Do you think they'd be honest about it if it did cause harm?

And if FOX or some other conservative outlet covered it? "Oh, there goes FOX again with the racism", the same way anything from a right (or increasingly even center) leaning source is smugly dismissed by those who are utterly convinced of their righteousness. It's so much worse than you realize.

Ever notice how no one actually ever defends legacy admissions, and that the schools, the same ones that are fighting tooth and nail to keep affirmative action by another name, staffed by the same types of people who make the legacy comparison, could end it instantly if they wanted to? Yeah.

Some fairly obvious benefits of diversity on university campuses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... s-students

Gotta hand it to the right wing. They are becoming more creative in the mischievous, diabolical and manipulative techniques to play minority groups against each other.