{"id":18539,"date":"2021-10-09T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18539"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:17:24","slug":"overnight-news-the-war-on-merit-hurts-everyone-but-it-cripples-the-poor-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18539\/overnight-news-the-war-on-merit-hurts-everyone-but-it-cripples-the-poor-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: The war on merit hurts everyone, but it cripples the poor\u00a0worst."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cHome is where the dogs\u00a0are!\u201d<\/p><\/div>Cleo is with us, and she and I will be working at the new place today. I installed a TV over there yesterday, so we can have college football on while we work. She likes the colors, I like the cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

The stands will be filled with white people, of course, while the playing field will be peppered with black people. What explains this “segregation”?<\/p>\n

It’s merit, obviously. The racial composition of the football team will be black, with white, yellow and red people thinly represented in the long tail. This is not racist, it’s selection by merit among racial groups who different skills and talents. It is alike and equally not racist that the chess team is all Asians and Jews. But of course, the football team does not feel itself obliged to recruit a token nerd.<\/p>\n

The war on merit is a terrible idea \u2013 for everyone \u2013 but the people most trapped by it are the ones for whom superior ability is their only way out. Children of moneyed families will always get a leg up, within the system or by escaping it. But it’s the kids of all races who have no one to fall back on but themselves who need and deserve the chance to claw their way out of poverty.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

David Harsanyi:<\/strong> Biden Administration Is Trying to Intimidate Parents.<\/a><\/p>\n

Matt Welch:<\/strong> NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of Redefining Language: Branding disparate racial outcomes as “segregation” is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don’t like.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHome is where the dogs\u00a0are!\u201dCleo is with us, and she and I will be working at the new place today. I installed a TV over there yesterday, so we can have college football on while we work. She likes the colors, I like the cheerleaders. 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