{"id":357074,"date":"2023-06-06T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=357074"},"modified":"2023-06-06T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:58:30","slug":"our-merit-based-society-has-been-displaced-by-a-diversity-based-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/06\/our-merit-based-society-has-been-displaced-by-a-diversity-based-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Merit-Based Society Has Been Displaced by a Diversity-Based Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have been watching its arrival for a number of years, and now it has arrived\u2013the transformation of our society from merit-based to status-based.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This is a major revolution.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom status to contract\u201d was Sir Henry Maine\u2019s description of the rise of a merit-based society in which aristocratic privilege was eliminated and equality under the law instituted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This revolution has now been overthrown, and we as a society have moved back to status as determined by race and gender.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If you are a member of an \u201cunder-represented\u201d race or gender, you enjoy \u201cdiversity status\u201d and preference in hiring and promotion just as aristocrats did in the hierarchy of social class.<\/p>\n