Discrimination: Just/Unjust
While us meritocratists passionately fight unjust and fallacious discrimination, we do support just and objective discrimination. Indeed, meritocracy depend on both. “Discrimination” is a negatively connoted word, but there is more to the word than what meets the feels.
Just discrimination is based on reality. Lets use an example: criminal profiling show that the vast majority of cartel members are ethnically Hispanic, hence it would be erroneous not to take that into account when investigating a cartel-related crime.
Key Points:
- Approach discrimination rationally, without emotion
- Accept the multidimensional nature of unjust discriminat.
- Race: Not simply white vs. colored, since there is ALLOT of bigotry between e.g. colored groups
- Further complicating matters is that highest visual diversity is among whites (e.g. hair and eye color, facial features)
- Race: Not simply white vs. colored, since there is ALLOT of bigotry between e.g. colored groups
- Demonstrate value of just/objective discrimination
- Combat politicizing of the word “discrimination”
- Its politicized by those who dislike uniqueness, individuality, autonomy and diversity
- Examples of Just Discrimination:
- Evident biologic differences
- Rejection of anti-scientific sentiments
- Rejection of evidently detrimental ideologies
- Evidence-based police profiling
- Grading system in education
- Pay for performance
- Reward for initiative
- Justifiable recruitment criteria
- Examples of Unjust Discrimination:
- Unjustified discrimination based on biology
- Limiting equality of opportunity
- Favoritism and other biases
- Special preference due to personal relationships
- Unwarranted ideological discrimination