"U.S. society today is very nearly a pure meritocracy, perhaps the purest there has ever been."

False. Asian exclusion, numerical quotas that limit Asians, and artificial admissions criterion designed to exclude Asians, used at USC, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and other private universities, shoot that magazine's theory to down the gutter.

Bullshit: I live in massachusetts, please don't play that hand here, OK? I see tons of Asian students at harvard, MIT, BC, BU et al...gimmee a break.

Bullshit wrote:

Bullshit: I live in massachusetts, please don't play that hand here, OK? I see tons of Asian students at harvard, MIT, BC, BU et al...gimmee a break.

They do have quotas at MIT at least, that's why there aren't even more. It's harder to get in if you're Asian.

Reminds me of this:

http://www.prometheussociety.org/articles/Outsiders.html

Which, along with being a feel-good article for outcast intellectuals, posits that communication across a large IQ gap (or life among others with significantly different IQ) is extremely difficult and stressful. If you accept this, it becomes clear that if your IQ was 150, living among people of "average intelligence" (~100) would be akin to a normal person trying to live amongst the mentally retarded.

I do not entirely agree with the article though. The controversy over "The Bell Curve" had more to do with accusations of racial differences in intelligence (and thus, racism) and shoddy statistics by the authors.

Who'd want to get into BU or BC anyhow ? MIT is the worst. Stanford and USC let in about 45% or 1/2 the qualified Asians as whites. UC schools were forced by the courts to end Asian exclusion in 1992 (I recall). Now UC campuses are majority Asian.

IQ, BC, SAT, ACT are all racially and culturally biased.

What a crock ! NYPD and LAPD openly execute black men in public on the streets without a trial. There are more black men in prisons than in college. The U.S. today is the most racist nation in the history of the world.

Crock of Shit wrote:

What a crock ! NYPD and LAPD openly execute black men in public on the streets without a trial. There are more black men in prisons than in college. The U.S. today is the most racist nation in the history of the world.

No. No and no.

The link answers the black men in prison question. (Even the Washington Post has noted that Obama lied about the number).

reader of online magazines wrote:

nationalreview.com

Don't have to read it...

But the notion that the US is a meritocracy is completely bogus. For starters, we would have to implement a 100% estate tax. And then as people found ways around that, other things would have to happen...

Probably should have clarified. I'm doing pretty darn well for myself right now. But I don't pretend for a second that the fact that I was born to two college educated parents, that we had enough money growing up, and that my mother read to me every night when I was little were somehow a product of my own hard work and talent.

If the United States of America were the most racist country in the world, then people of all races would not flock to it in droves. Please, stop listening to your liberal college professors who go on about America being so racist. Its pure garbage and you need think for yourself. America is the most generous country in the history of the world. And I am proud to be an American.

I'm going to have to agree with you (if this is what you are trying to say) that the justice system is racist. If you look in any jail, I guarantee that roughly 85-90% of the prisoners are black or Mexican. I highly doubt that blacks and hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than whites.

sc runner wrote:

I'm going to have to agree with you (if this is what you are trying to say) that the justice system is racist. If you look in any jail, I guarantee that roughly 85-90% of the prisoners are black or Mexican. I highly doubt that blacks and hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than whites.

You're wrong. Most prisoners are poor. It just so happens that minorities make up a larger than average percentage of the impoverished so it can appear that the justice system is racist if a person happens to be lacking a brain. There are many reasons behind the disproportionate number of the impoverished behind bars but I will leave it to others to do the research.

Forgot to mention this in my last post....

If you want to see racism, go to Europe. Minorities are completely ghettoized there. Whereas in America people highlight and work to solve our problems with regards to minority inequality, in Europe these issues are completely ignored and allowed to fester. While our (America's) problems tend to get more airtime, Europe's have never been addressed and are in turn much worse.

If you can't see this, you need to get your head out of your ass and open your eyes to what's really going on. America isn't perfect but it sure beats many other parts of the world.

sc runner wrote:

I'm going to have to agree with you (if this is what you are trying to say) that the justice system is racist. If you look in any jail, I guarantee that roughly 85-90% of the prisoners are black or Mexican. I highly doubt that blacks and hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than whites.

Blacks and hispanics are much more likely to commit serious crimes than whites.

Homicides per capita by race

Homicides per capita by race charts

SeniorElGimpo wrote:There are many reasons behind the disproportionate number of the impoverished behind bars but I will leave it to others to do the research.

One need look no further than municipal unions to realize that the U.S. is very far from a pure meritocracy.

False wrote:

designed to exclude Asians, used at USC

Clearly you have never been on the USC campus

Crock of Shit wrote:

The U.S. today is the most racist nation in the history of the world.

haha...that's a laugh. I hope you're not serious. That is one of the most ignorant, idiotic statements I've ever heard on here.