In his rather excellent book “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”,
Judge Robert Bork writes that many great cultures have arrested their decline (Rome
under the emperors, Byzantium under the emperors spring to mind), an that it is
quite possible that the same may happen in ours; some uprising, some awakening
will occur that will lead to this nation turning its’ back on the madness that
liberalism and political correctness hath wrought……
…….well…..I wish I was so optimistic. Because I see NO indications that this nation
is prepared to do that.
And this story right here…..this does nothing to assuage my
angst.
I have a difficult time getting my head around bullshit
like this, in the name of science.
Seriously? We ridicule the NAZI’s
and their theories on race, racial purity, put forth under the name of science,
and we buy into this crap without blinking an eye? Why don’t we just get out the calipers and
start measuring head size and forehead slope, and distance between the eyes,
because trust me……..the meat of this article is exactly the same.
The authors of the article, use statistics, one of those
math and science “STEM” thingies that is all the rage, to prove that this unending
and falsely informed striving for diversity in all fields leads to increased
dumbing down of all fields. In short,
the authors use science to disprove the perceived, unscientifically decided
upon benefits of diversity in the STEM (and actually all) fields. In short, there is no existing study or
example in which abandoning standards in pursuit of “diversity”, the child of
political correctness, results in ANY benefit.
And let me put this in the plainest of all possible
scenarios, one that hits closely to home.
As many of you know, or have read me write, I am on a dual organ
transplant list, and have been now into my third year. I am a regular at the University of Kansas
Medical Center, the regional leader in such surgeries. Without those transplants, regardless of when
I die, the medical world can point to my passing as a direct result of that
illness (assuming I do not wise off to someone faster on the draw than am I
before that time). My kidney doctor and
my GI are renowned in their field. One
is white and one is (I think) Greek, maybe Romanian. I have met my surgeon, and he is a big
hulking white guy who you wouldn’t think has the dexterity to be medically
gutting humans. About half of the
doctors, therapists, nurses, and other professionals on “my” team are not
whities.
And I do not care. I
want, and I feel I have, the very best that medical science has to offer. And they all placed highly in their SAT’s and
they all took and passed the GRE and the MCAT and they all are qualified under
traditionally rigorous standards; they rose to the standard in their field, the
standards were not lowered to meet them.
And that is what diversity, multi-culturalism and political
correctness does. Can’t cut it as a
plumber? well we need more urologists and you fit the bill. Math not your bag? Hell, you don’t need math in launching
someone into outer space….YOU need to be a black woman. School a drag? Forget about it, take this degree and move
out!
Can we arrest our decline?
Can we return to reality, can we even get to the point where we can talk
it out loud?
Or…..will some inner city, female with a high school
diploma be doing neuro-surgery in the name of diversity?
I am afraid I am not anywhere as near as optimistic as
Judge Bork.
And he is not optimistic at all.
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