There were guys named Ryan born before “Love Story”? Who’da thunk it?

(Ryan is actually O’Neal’s second middle name.)

Look at the bright side. A lack of civil service testing will lead to a government full of idiots. Why is that bad?

‘Of course we want key positions in government departments to be staffed by the best available people’. Maybe. Maybe not.

Regarding how

more women than men now attend college

as John Derbyshire says above, and indeed now do get more Master degrees etc –

An oft-claimed reason is that the digital era of video games and thousands of hours of free online pornography, have turned young male brains into mush, versus their female counterparts less inclined to such things

White people need to get over meritocracy as a goal and start discriminating in favor of whites.

This is the result of diversity uber alles – in a society where most of the population more or less looks the same, people can live with a certain amount of economic inequality because it is more comfortable to attribute it to differences in effort or ability. In a racially or ethnically diverse society group differences in outcomes stand out and are more likely to be attributed to ‘structural’ problems in society, since no one wants to think their particular group lags others because on average they just aren’t quite as smart or have the wrong values. Then the policy response is blatantly putting a foot on the scale for some and ignoring the capabilities of others in the hope this levels things out, but it never does and aggravation grows on all sides.

The good news is that a lot of these government and corporate positions that can be filled by anybody who can read and write are the very positions technology will render redundant. I don’t have to go to the DMV anymore to renew my license or registration. In fact, they charge extra if you don’t renew on line. If my tax forms can be filled out and submitted by Turbo Tax then they can be reviewed by an IRS program too. No need for thousands of IRS employees to open envelopes and process tax returns ( the IRS is 22% negro).

The ability of government to mandate outcomes is coming to an end and a lot of people are going to have to rely on their ‘talent’ and not the government to get by. Many will fail.

Elevation of fairness to the highest principle is irrational and undesirable, even if not combined with wholesale denial of biology.

Opening elite positions to women simply serves to make the best women in society less marriageable and less likely to reproduce. This is dysgenic.

Opening elite positions to negroes simply gives them more power to advance their own racial interests, which are necessarily opposed to the interests of whites because they are a fundamentally parasitic and criminal race.

The only effect of Negro education is to spoil a good field hand and make an insolent cook.

James K. Vardaman, Governor of Mississippi

If you really don’t think young female minds have likewise been turned to mush, you must be very good at avoiding things like Facebook and Television. My compliments.

Not to worry: every company and government agency will keep a few white males on staff to do the difficult work, and even more importantly to shoulder the blame for the next bridge collapse.

Zinke should have come out swinging and proclaimed that race and gender based hiring is not only wrecking the nation but grossly unfair to whites. Instead he cucked since he values his future employment in the $wamp more than the fate of the nation and his race.

Our side has no spine at all so it’s not a wonder why we keep getting routed in the culture wars. You can’t win without courage and conservatives have very little of it . The establishment right tells the truth then backtracks and/or apologizes when the (((media hyenas))) turn up the heat.

Fifty years of mostly black and to a lesser extent brown skin privilege have netted us absolutely nothing with respect to improved race relations or domestic tranquility. So it’s time to return to the days when whites get the best jobs and are given preference over non-whites in everything. If blacks don’t like it they can emigrate to Wakanda.

Of course we want key positions in government departments to be staffed by the best available people.

Is that really sensible? If you want an institution, or a company, or a nation, to survive it might be wiser to choose the most loyal people rather than the best.

Don’t forget that disproportionate outcomes are also guaranteed by randomness. A random distribution is not an even distribution. Take a handful of rice grains and scatter them randomly across a checkerboard. Does each square get exactly one grain of rice exactly in its center? Of course not, though that would be an even distribution. Instead, the rice scatters in random clusters. It takes a good statistician to tell you the difference between random clusters and caused clusters, and even then he can only give you a probability that the cluster is caused or random.
Absent any discrimination, and absent any consistent causes of any kind, we would not have 50% women in this or that field or 13% blacks in this or that profession. We would be distributed randomly, which means clustered, which means disproportionately.

In society at large, though, things were indubitably unfair until fifty years or so ago. It was hard for a woman to get qualified as a doctor or lawyer, much harder than for a man.

Unfair? I really doubt that. These fields were just rightly not seen as normal fields for a woman to enter, that’s all. But then, Big State needed the tax money, and the cntrl-left of the 1960’s wanted to subvert the nuclear family. It was a win/win. That’s why things changed, not due to anyone making things more fair.

Blacks were excluded from all sorts of zones by custom and by actual legislation.

“Excluded from zones”? Is that about sections on the city buses? Big damn deal – right now a white person can’t even ride ANYWHERE on a city bus in most cities without being in danger. I think you may not know so much of this part of American history, Mr. Derbyshire. It’s easy to fall back on the long-term series of lies from the LP.

Instead he cucked since he values his future employment in the $wamp more than the fate of the nation and his race.

Yep, although I would just use the word cowardice instead of the term “cucking out” in this case.

Anyway, that was a great comment, as usual, KenH.

What does that phrase mean, “a competitive examination of your background, work experience, and education”? If there is no written test, how is it “a competitive examination” of anything?

What it means is that judgment of applicants is now “holistic.” That’s the preferred bureaucratic term, “holistic.”

What that means is that the hiring official glances through your records to make sure you have some relevant schooling and experience and are not a career criminal, then hires you or not by quota according to your race, sex, and so on.

This is not a totally contemptible approach. The heart of the matter here is fairness. Yes, we want the best people; but we also want Civil Service job applicants to be treated fairly.

What it does mean is that selection of government staff is highly subjective – ie open to whatever ideological, personal or emotional whims drive the selectors, within whatever overall quotas are effectively imposed.

It only means fairness (however that nebulous concept is to be interpreted) if that is genuinely what drives the selectors or if the system is effectively policed to imposed such.

Seems unlikely, to be honest….

Thanks Achmed. Cowardice and cuck are synonymous but cuck is more insulting, hence its use in this situation.

In society at large, though, things were indubitably unfair until fifty years or so ago. It was hard for a woman to get qualified as a doctor or lawyer, much harder than for a man.

Unfair? I really doubt that. These fields were just rightly not seen as normal fields for a woman to enter, that’s all.

Agreed. Back then most women had little interest in becoming doctors or lawyers. I very much doubt that the handful who did want to do so faced any actual discrimination.

Pretty much all the claims made by feminists are lies, and cuckservatives believe all those feminist lies.

Be careful what you ask for. Do we want the Ivies and the boardrooms to be entirely stocked with Jews and Asians?

Meritocracy is fine when you’re on top but otherwise not so fine. Most of us would like to see a mixture of meritocracy and diversity. Also, since when is “merit” purely a matter of IQ scores, test scores, or even grades? How about honesty, loyalty, kindness, courage, common sense? Would you want government offices staffed by unkind, dishonest, self-serving, sycophants with high IQs and great grades?