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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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I'm wearing PAMPERS!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2016, @10:48AM
No to "Merit"
Yes to Honour.
Remeber: opposing men taking young female children as brides is a death sentence: (Dt 13:6 hebrew) (elohim means judges/rulers/gods/etc)
Men are permitted to rape2own female children: (Dt 22:28-29 hebrew)
Enticing others to follow something else is a death sentence: (Dt 13:6 hebrew)
That means it is our duty to kill the feminists / stormcucks / whiteknightnationalists in europe and other areas who oppose man+girl.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 19 2016, @08:45PM
Come try me, like you threatened to late last year, bigmouth.
I know you won't. You're scared to death of me. You hate me, but you also know taking on a six-foot dyke in steel-toed boots would be the last mistake you ever make.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2016, @08:54AM
Don't know who you are, you seem to think I do or ever remember conversing with whomever you are, however I wouldn't "take on a 6 foot steel toed dyke" (btw: you're short, cuntlet). I would just shoot whomever in the back until whomever was dead.
Those women who are enemies of the God of Deuteronomy are not to be afforded respect.
Just execution.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 23 2016, @04:22PM
You want my last medical records? 183cm on the dot, 75kg (yes, I could stand to drop a few of those...it's happening, give it a couple months). I'm taller than most men and heavier than around a third of them, partly because my second job involves a lot of moving boxes.
So, Mikee, am I to assume that by the above post you are indeed threatening me with death by gunshot? Should I find out where you work and send your employer all the screencaptures of your behavior I've been saving up? :) If you wanna talk "rape2own" just wait till you end up in prison!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...