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If you do not believe someone can demonstrate merit, you cannot believe in equality of opportunity. If you do not have Equality of Opportunity all you have lef

If you do not believe someone can demonstrate merit, you cannot believe in equality of opportunity. If you do not have Equality of Opportunity all you have left are power structures, usually attached to some degree of structural determinism. At that moment, you have the same logic as the Communist/Marxian/Dialectic revolutionaries we have seen time and time again. Once they gain power they label everyone else a reactionary. Saying they don't believe in being able to demonstrate merit is why I suggest they are a Communist/Marxian/Dialectic. Because not only is that stupid in the real world, it is literally a defining feature of the base ideology.

mikkergp 4y ago
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what I did or didn't say. I didn't say people can't demonstrate merit. I said people are bad at measuring merit, and I think that is relatively true on its face, and the subject of a whole mess of thinkpieces and arguments on Hacker News. Shit I thought it was funny there was one posted today: https://workweek.com/2022/09/26/performance-reviews-dont-actually-assess-your-performance/ https://workweek.com/2022/09/26/performance-reviews-dont-act... No where in the article is it suggesting that anyone is pressuring managers to promote demonstrably poor performers for racial reasons. They are being asked to adjust their processes to consider the most candidates. I think for a medium size group of relatively equal performers, it would be nearly impossible to rank order them in a way you could get a small handful of people to consistently agree with. Everyone seems to love to straw men this with some idea that Microsoft is firing all of their principal engineers to replace them with entry level candidates from state universities.