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Merit is subjective which is why diversity is critical to an organization's survival. Gender and ethnicity are not a guarantee of diversity. The Nobel Prize or

Merit is subjective which is why diversity is critical to an organization's survival. Gender and ethnicity are not a guarantee of diversity. The Nobel Prize organization operates on a very dated model of merit.

bluecalm 5y ago
We already went through this kind of thinking and narrative in Soviet Union and countries under its influence. Additional admission points for where you were raised and what social/economic class you came from. We know how it ends: resentment, friends of friends being promoted, people trying to get to chosen classes (in America you already see attempts to get on affirmative action train by being 1/32 black etc.). It's all very destructive and it breeds nothing but hostility. We also went through this kind of language: "merit is subjective" may sound clever to you but it sounds awfully Orwellian to anyone raised in a communist country. As do quotas and the whole newspeak around diversity. If you ever wonder why people coming from Russia, Poland, Hungary and all other Soviet block countries are very against modern American left ideas the explanation is that we have already lived through it and we know where it ends. If I could point to one instance of "please learn from history instead of repeating it" it would be this one. It's good to see a rare display of sanity from Nobel Prize committee but it's also scary to see the mildest stance already getting flak from diversity radicals.
- ganzuul 5y ago
  Russian communism was a farce. You are stretching your experience way too far.
  - nobodyandproud 5y ago
    Why do you say it was a farce?
    - ganzuul 5y ago
      In addition to what GP said, first and foremost they fought expansionist wars. They had readied 28 000 tanks before WW2. - Think about what that means. Their social progress pales in comparison to the evil they were planning.
      - shakow 5y ago
        > They had readied 28 000 tanks before WW2 And the US alone control the first (USAF), second (USAAF) and third (USNAF) air forces in the world. That's a stupid argument that does not have anything to do with the question at hand.

bluecalm 5y ago

We already went through this kind of thinking and narrative in Soviet Union and countries under its influence. Additional admission points for where you were raised and what social/economic class you came from. We know how it ends: resentment, friends of friends being promoted, people trying to get to chosen classes (in America you already see attempts to get on affirmative action train by being 1/32 black etc.). It's all very destructive and it breeds nothing but hostility. We also went through this kind of language: "merit is subjective" may sound clever to you but it sounds awfully Orwellian to anyone raised in a communist country. As do quotas and the whole newspeak around diversity. If you ever wonder why people coming from Russia, Poland, Hungary and all other Soviet block countries are very against modern American left ideas the explanation is that we have already lived through it and we know where it ends. If I could point to one instance of "please learn from history instead of repeating it" it would be this one. It's good to see a rare display of sanity from Nobel Prize committee but it's also scary to see the mildest stance already getting flak from diversity radicals.

ganzuul 5y ago
Russian communism was a farce. You are stretching your experience way too far.
- nobodyandproud 5y ago
  Why do you say it was a farce?
  - ganzuul 5y ago
    In addition to what GP said, first and foremost they fought expansionist wars. They had readied 28 000 tanks before WW2. - Think about what that means. Their social progress pales in comparison to the evil they were planning.
    - shakow 5y ago
      > They had readied 28 000 tanks before WW2 And the US alone control the first (USAF), second (USAAF) and third (USNAF) air forces in the world. That's a stupid argument that does not have anything to do with the question at hand.