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Disputes over diversity equity and inclusion depend on how you define fairness : Comments
By Eric Silver and John Iceland, published 2/6/2021Let's start with a premise that everyone would agree with: Racial inequality persists across many dimensions.
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Of course, the socialists have done just that by claiming that the very clear differences in social outcomes displayed between races is because the rotten white people have manipulated the system to the disadvantage of the dysfunctional minorities. Which is complete and utter malarkey.
The sad fact is that mother nature is no egalitarian. People, and groups of people, are born with differing levels of intelligence, different personalities, different conceptions of beauty, and different athletic abilities. And while some of these qualities can be improved upon by culture, in the main, people are born that way. No amount of education can make a basically low intelligence person into a Mensa. Or Magda Szubanski into a supermodel.
Therefore, different groups of people, within races between classes, will have different social outcomes. And no amount of social engineering is going to change that. All it will do is to create distortions in efficiency as people are chosen on the basis of their minority status instead of proven ability. And it will create resentment from the smarter elements in society (the productive people our society depends upon) who know that they are being shafted by an unfair system set up to buy dysfunctional minority votes. And that they are being discriminated against solely upon the basis of their race by people claiming that they are anti racist.