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on Saturday June 18 2016, @06:20AM
from the in-my-day-we-called-it-social-darwinism dept.
from the in-my-day-we-called-it-social-darwinism dept.
When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term meritocracy in 1958, it was in a dystopian satire. At the time, the world he imagined, in which intelligence fully determined who thrived and who languished, was understood to be predatory, pathological, far-fetched.
Today, however, we’ve almost finished installing such a system, and we have embraced the idea of a meritocracy with few reservations, even treating it as virtuous. That can’t be right. Smart people should feel entitled to make the most of their gift. But they should not reshape society so as to instate giftedness as a universal yardstick of human worth.
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When the Term Meritocracy was Coined in 1958, it was in a Dystopian Satire
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2016, @06:46AM
What you have is a niggerocracy which triggered a resurgence of racism and set the civil rights movement back 40 years. MLK had a dream that white crackers could tell amusing jokes about black niggers with inoffensively satirical intention. And a short while ago it seemed the dream was coming true and we could all get along without everyone taking offense to everything. Then the niggerocracy happened and popular opinion went full racist against white people. Brother that is not how equality works.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2016, @08:14AM
Niggers deserve to be large and in charge because Martin Luther King said the black man is superior.