{"id":4198,"date":"2018-09-30T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/30\/the-lefts-attack-on-merit\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T13:31:58","slug":"the-lefts-attack-on-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/30\/the-lefts-attack-on-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left’s Attack on Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I regularly speak of the destructive Left. There is no exaggeration in that.  Whether they intend it or not, leftists promote policies that are destructive.  They attack merit, for example, bizarrely considering it to be 'racist.' <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, there is the case of New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, who has proposed<\/a> to do away with Stuyvesant High School's entrance exam. Why is it 'racist'?  Well, Asians do better than anyone else, better than whites who do better that Hispanics, who do better than blacks.  Here is the composition of the incoming class:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Asian \u2014 613<\/span>
White \u2014 151<\/span>
Hispanic \u2014 27<\/span>
Black \u2014 10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is no proportional representation! A lack of diversity! And therefore it's 'racist'!<\/span><\/p>\n

But seriously now, how can it be racist if it is true? Answer me that one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Full Disclosure<\/em>: I am not now and never have been Asian. (And I am on record<\/a> as denying the possibility of race change.) If Asians are better at math than whites, that's just the way it is.  We conservatives respect reality, a reality that is no social construction but lies beyond all of our talk with its mewling and pining, wishing and whining.  We conservatives stand our ground, that ground being the terra firma<\/em> of antecedent reality, to cop a beautiful line from <\/span>Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963):<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is my contention that a conservative is a realist, who believes that there is a structure of reality independent of his own will and desire. He believes that there is a creation which was here before him, which exists now not just by his sufferance, and which will be here after he is gone. This structure consists not merely of the great physical world but also of many laws, principles, and regulations which control human behavior. Though this reality is independent of the individual, it is not hostile to him. It is in fact amenable by him in many ways, but it cannot be changed radically and arbitrarily. This is the cardinal point. The conservative holds that man in this world cannot make his will his law without any regard to limits and to the fixed nature of things . . . . The conservative I therefore see as standing on the terra firma<\/em> of antecedent reality; having accepted some things as given, lasting and good, he is in a position to use his effort where effort will produce solid results. (Quoted from Fred Douglas Young, Richard M. Weaver 1910-1963<\/strong>, University of Missouri Press, 1995, pp. 144-145.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It ought to be self-evident that we ought to promote excellence, but it is not self-evident to destructive leftists. I do not say that diversity is no value at all. But in this case it ought to be obvious that merit trumps<\/em> diversity. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want you people to realize that if you vote for Democrats you are voting for this sort of Bozo de Blasio insanity, and a lot of other insanity to boot.  But is it really insanity? Or is it worse?<\/span><\/p>\n

I am toying with what I will call the Leftist Trilemma: leftists are either stupid\/insane or ignorant\/uneducated or willfully evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I may be missing a fourth possibility.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I regularly speak of the destructive Left. There is no exaggeration in that.  Whether they intend it or not, leftists promote policies that are destructive.  They attack merit, for example, bizarrely considering it to be 'racist.'  For example, there is the case of New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, who has proposed to do away … Continue reading “The Left’s Attack on Merit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}