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Queensland University of Technology defends removing 'merit' from hiring policy
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tszaboo:

--- Quote from: coppice on December 01, 2023, 08:36:25 pm ---Racism, anti-semitism, all the old vices are back in fashion right now.

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Oh, but can't you see that they are actually the anti-racist, and the good guys people?
And it isn't anti-semitism, they only seek to destroys the only democratic country in the middle east, and only to get rid of all the occupiers there?


--- Quote from: RJSV on December 01, 2023, 07:53:51 pm ---Isn't that code talk for admitting RACISM ?

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If you are not saying what they want you to say then you are racist or -phobe. So might as well stop caring what they call you for giving your opinion. Gloves are off.
Gregg:
Academia and a myriad of do-gooders have been fighting racism with more racism for over 60 years and all it has done is foster even more racism.  :box:
RJSV:
   My head hurts, watching this unfold...
OR my ass.

   My head and my ass.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: magic on November 28, 2023, 08:21:20 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 28, 2023, 07:14:51 am ---The war on "merit" is not too surprising, even if it's just one angle of attack here among many. The "woke" movement is some kind of (at least in inspiration) neo-marxist movement and for neo-marxists, merit is one of the values to destroy.
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American food isn't real food.
American boobs aren't real boobs.
American marxists aren't real marxists ;D

AFAIK actual commies never used gender or ethnic quotas and were opposed to feminism and other identity politics. Their position was that people are equal and any differences that may be observed today are caused by social dynamics of power and money, which dynamics communism claimed to eliminate.
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That's the premise of critical social justice, which borrows heavily from Marxism. The root of all Marxist doctrine is idea that all folk are innately equal and any inequalities are due social dynamics. Critical race theory, feminism and queer theory all revolve around the idea of minorities being oppressed, by a systemically oppressive society: whiteness, heteronormative, patriarchy etc.


--- Quote ---Infamous kleptocracy aside, hiring decisions were officially to be based on suitability for the job. As they had to be, for communism to have any chance of progressing and fighting the global evil of capitalism and imperialism.

Anti-merit is an American movement trying to explain inconvenient statistics for disgruntled liberals who realized that decades of state-level cult of liberalism and elimination of every form of genuine systemic inequality still didn't make the statistics go away completely, as their religion appeared to promise. It's also backed by the American conviction that they are at the top of the global food chain and will stay there forever no matter how hard they shoot their foot. Americans would make actual idealistic communists cringe.
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It's socialism, but of a different flavour to that of the old USSR. The idea is to use social engineering to ensure everyone is equal, rather than taking over the means of production. It's the same goal, just by a different means.
coppice:

--- Quote from: Gregg on December 01, 2023, 09:37:35 pm ---Academia and a myriad of do-gooders have been fighting racism with more racism for over 60 years and all it has done is foster even more racism.  :box:

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Outside their own little bubble it really hasn't. Any meaningful measure of racism in western democracies has shown a massive reduction in the last half century. This really pisses off anyone who makes a living from the idea its still a huge issue, and in the last few years they've managed to get some traction. I doubt its going to last.
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