Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since theCivil Rights Movementand associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was...
[Tenet 1]racism is ordinary:the overall ethos of majority culture promotes and promulgates a notion of ‘color-blindness’ and ‘meritocracy.’ These two notions are mutually intertwined and serve to marginalize certain enclaves of people—predominately people of color. [Tenet 2]The beliefs created...
Give DEI or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion or Woke or Critical Race Theory a quick death in every corner of government, especially the Pentagon, and restore meritocracy, objectivity, individual responsibility, equal opportunity, color blindness, free market principles. If this can be accomplished in Am...
Mātauranga Māori is about a Māori way of being and engaging in the world – in its simplest form, it uses kawa (cultural practices) and tikanga (cultural principles) to critique, examine, analyse and understand the world. It is based on ancient val...
In reality, that song was first penned asa Marxist critique of the notion of private property— in direct opposition to the narrow notion of freedom the 1776 report venerates. Woodie Guthrie — of “This machine kills fascists” fame — would not only have vehemently opposed the sort of “...
Bomani JONES: They need to believe that sports are pure meritocracy because, honestly, they don’t believe there’s a meritocracy anywhere else. We focus on the latest case of sportswashing, in the usually boring precinct of professional golf. ...
struggles, she felt, exposed the limits of us meritocracy. one promising kid couldn’t afford the roughly $100 required to take the sat. after gebru paid the fee for him, he won a scholarship to mit. she also pitched in to help students who had been denied visas despite having been ...
All this alongside a relentless pretence at meritocracy and a stress on individualism over collectivism, implying that dissatisfaction with your circumstances was not a result of structural conditions, but an individual failing that only you could change – by altering yourself and not the system. ...
Rawls deflates the idea that we morally deserve the rewards of meritocracy. If we accept this, it follows that the house of distributive justice cannot be built on the sands of moral desert (which, in simple terms, is a condition in which we are deserving of something, whether good or ba...
For another example, meritocracy emphasizes a society ruled by those with education, skills, and abilities. We posit that these cultural ideologies have one commonality: they are based on an idea that the world is a just place, where people get what they deserve (e.g., a success for those...