{"id":269591,"date":"2023-06-06T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269591"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:05:12","slug":"our-merit-based-society-has-been-displaced-by-a-diversity-based-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269591","title":{"rendered":"Our Merit-Based Society Has Been Displaced by a Diversity-Based Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org June 5, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I have been watching its arrival for a number of years, and now it has arrived\u2013the transformation of our society from merit-based to status-based.\u00a0 This is a major revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom status to contract\u201d was Sir Henry Maine\u2019s description of the rise of a merit-based society in which aristocratic privilege was eliminated and equality under the law instituted.\u00a0 This revolution has now been overthrown, and we as a society have moved back to status as determined by race and gender.\u00a0 If you are a member of an \u201cunder-represented\u201d race or gender, you enjoy \u201cdiversity status\u201d and preference in hiring and promotion just as aristocrats did in the hierarchy of social class.<\/p>\n

The new status-based society is everywhere one looks.\u00a0 For example, the accounting firm, Price-Waterhouse, describes itself as \u201ca culture of belonging.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cUnwavering determination and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d has achieved a Price-Waterhouse board that is 40% female and 40% racially\/ethnically diverse. Price-Waterhouse\u2019s aspirational goals for 2026 are a 50% increase in the firm\u2019s black and Hispanic\/Latinx workforce, a 50% increase in women, and to have 40% of its suppliers \u201ccertified diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notice that Price-Waterhouse does not define its aspiration in terms of having the best qualified work force.\u00a0 Apparently, Price-Waterhouse thinks that hiring based on merit would be discriminatory and not inclusive.\u00a0 Why does Price-Waterhouse think that white women and non-white ethnicities are less capable than white men?\u00a0 If Price-Waterhouse did not think that, why does the firm base its hiring on race and gender status?<\/p>\n

Merit is clearly discriminatory, but it discriminates on the basis of ability, not on the basis of race and gender.\u00a0 There always have been highly capable women and non-whites.\u00a0 Why not hire them on the basis of their merit, not for their race and gender?<\/p>\n

Maybe it is not realized, or perhaps those behind the diversity agenda do, that the reintroduction of status privileges means the death of equality under the law.\u00a0 A legal system of differential rights reintroduces \u00a0status-based law.<\/p>\n

We already see this.\u00a0 Only white people can be guilty of hate speech and hate crimes.\u00a0 Only white people can be verbally abused.\u00a0 In many US cities under Democrat administration it is not a felony for blacks to steal, repeatedly, up to $950 from stores without arrest and prosecution. And so on.\u00a0 The fact is startling that the majority white population of the United States is being relegated to second class legal standing.<\/p>\n

The construction of privileged-based races and genders creates a privileged-based society.\u00a0 The United States has been revolutionized. we have moved from contract to status.<\/p>\n

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