Political Weirdos

Or about how "meritocracy" is an intrinsic classist system, when investing in education isn't evenly distributed.

I'm sure they could could explain it but them they'd have to explain their Totenkopf tattoo.

It's literally just Prosperity Gospel. They believe we already live in a meritocracy, therefore the white people that were getting the jobs were the most qualified. They're there because they're the best, and they're the best because they're there. Therefore any efforts to give a chance to people who didn't have those same opportunities through DEI programs necessarily requires that those people are not as good of candidates.

It is literally impossible for these people to understand that they aren't changing the requirements at all in almost any case. That all that's happening in most any case of a DEI program is that they're giving the same consideration to a black or brown person that didn't have the same networking connections as the legacy white guy whose Dad goes to the same country club as the hiring manager or whatever.

Which is absolutely hilarious when you think about it. Because if our system was annually based on merit half of these people crying about "DEI Hires" would never actually have gotten hired themselves for their own positions. Most of these people are where they are because of who their parents were and who they knew. If you peeled that away and evaluated them anonymously against a comparable "DEI Hire" they'd get BTFO pretty much every time.

Easy, they just conclude that only white males are qualified. You know, because white supremacy and sexism.

As a POC, I've encountered this form of argument implicitly in several conversations. Why do X group of people not have better outcomes concerning some metric? Don't blame the system (it's a meritocracy) so blame the group of people.

I mean, that does align with their other beliefs

My favorite one … has his own HR rep assigned to him

Ohh, so that’s why they’re often called “job creators”

to these white supremacists and white supremacist apologists, the current secdef is qualified.

Im pro meritocracy! Thats very easily explainable. Its because of a couple factors, but the big ones are lack of generational wealth among minorities and a differance in avialability of opportunity.

Because of societal issues in the past, minorities were less positioned to take advantage of ~~people~~ the economy. This means they were unable to accrue generational wealth, which directly leads into support systems that every single person relies on. Without that generational wealth you are less likely to take risks, stunting further economic growth. It also limits your ability to network, which is how you gain influence.

This directly leads to lower quality of education, less vocational training, higher crime rates, and a slew of other issues, which all directly impact your ability to gain and maintain new skills.

I believe the best person available should be flying my plane. Under our current system, that "best person" is likely a white male pilot because he had the strongest support systems and the generational wealth required to grant him the opportunities to refine his skills. Im not racist for wanting the best pilot. I would be racist if i failed to recognise that that best pilot is going to be white due to historical imbalance of opportunity.