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Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. If you're referring to things like encouraging diversity or CoC's or
by mwfunk 6y ago
Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. If you're referring to things like encouraging diversity or CoC's or the other usual things that some personality types REALLY enjoy getting worked up over, the people that advocate them advocate them because they want to establish better meritocracies in the face of implicit biases. Biases that stand in the way of meritocracies (similar to things like nepotism, etc.).
You can disagree with them that those biases exist, or that that is a way to accomplish a more perfect meritocracy, but you can't claim that they are motivated by a desire to make anything less of a meritocracy. You can only claim that they're going about it the wrong way and give really thoughtful and coherent reasons why you think that's the case.
- iliekcomputers 6y ago>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in line with the opinion that meritocracy as a concept is flawed. [0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/ https://postmeritocracy.org/ (sidenote: I agree with a lot of things in this link)
- shkkmo 6y agoThat link doesn't really dismiss meritocracy as a concept or ideal, it tries to call attention to flaws in the way that meritocracy is practiced (especially in open source projects.)
- SamReidHughes 6y agoNo, they literally do hate meritocracy. UCSF medical school didn't get more meritocratic by reducing Asian admissions from 60% to 20%.
- JungleGymSam 6y ago> Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies... Your very next sentence goes on to disprove that.