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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I know is the idea that we have had a meritocracy anywhere in this country is laughable.

I mean come on. Raise your hand if you've ever worked somewhere where the most capable people (usually women in my experience) were overlooked for promotions in favor of inexperienced, incompetent candidates (usually men in my experience, yours might be different).

So many uninspiring incompetent upper management / admin staff pulling the big bucks while the sharper worker bees who know what they’re doing get nothing. Meritocracy has nothing to do with it.

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I think you make a good point.  People are framing it as though DE&I initiatives are moving us further from a meritocracy, as though we are anything close to that.  In fact, to answer the OP's question, maybe the "long term goal" of DE&I is to create the meritocracy that has never existed...[/quote]

That is exactly the goal of D&I initiatives.  In the old system all the competitors lined up on the starting line, the gun was fired, and people finished in the order they finished.

Now with D&I, we are expected to assume that if the race of the winners doesn't match expectations we have to simply select winners based on their race. (or game the rules of the race enough that we get the outcome we want.)

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I'm not sure your first sentence makes sense with the rest of what you wrote.  The "old system" you describe never existed.  To use your analogy, in the "old system" some people showed up with the perfect gear, the perfect training and perfect nutrition (all given to them, not earned on their "merit").  And others showed up malnourished, with weights in their shoes, etc.  [/quote]

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