- Because the criteria of "merit" usually "just happen" to be a description of the people who get to define them and evaluate others. - Because measuring only

- Because the criteria of "merit" usually "just happen" to be a description of the people who get to define them and evaluate others. - Because measuring only at the finishing line while ignoring how far people have had to come is in fact unequal, not equal treatment. - Because the concept victim-blames those who aren’t allowed/enabled/supported to succeed according to it. - Because it's a really astounding statistical anomaly that all those "meritocratic" communities "who don't care about gender etc." are in practice ridiculously less diverse than the population in general.