What do you call the person who graduated last in his class at medical school? Doctor.
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How the hell should I know what you got?
Leaders of many elite institutions now say that a merit-based admissions policy may lead to unacceptable racially unequal outcomes. The New York Times, for example, recently published an op-ed arguing for ending blind auditions in America's orchestras. Such moves indicate an overturning of decades of consensus that neutral meritocratic standards foster racial diversity and signal an institutional shift towards explicit racial quotas.
In their letter, the signatories indicate that they believe that "implicit bias in grading and assessment of students" may be behind the racial disparity in Alpha Omega Alpha membership. This, they write, "makes it necessary for us to seriously re-examine the pathway forward."
UPDATE: Some commenters have questioned why I used a photograph of a black model dressed as a doctor to illustrate this post. Of course, it was to illustrate the point: when the Great White Fathers of Diversity call for the elimination of objective testing and grades because they cause “racial disparity” they don’t mean there are too few whites succeeding, they mean too many blacks are failing. Implicit in that advocacy is the belief that “minorities” (for purposes of tabulating race-based results in these matters, Asians, Semites — Jews and Arabs alike — and East Asians, are counted as white) aren’t capable of scoring well on tests. I don’t believe that, they do. They won’t say it, so I chose to say it for them, put a face to their racism, and let them deny it. So far, all I’ve heard is spluttering.
