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https://catholicvote.org/texas-am-rejects-dei-switches-to-merit-based-admission-and-hiring-system/

Texas A&M Rejects DEI, Switches to Merit-Based Admission and Hiring System
CV NEWS FEED // The Texas A&M University system announced Thursday that it will remove all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements from its admissions and hiring criteria effective immediately.

“No university or agency in the A&M System will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit,” the system’s Chancellor John Sharp, said in a statement posted on the university system’s website. The A&M System includes 11 institutions spread across the state of Texas.

The sudden change came less than a month after the office of Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a letter to all of Texas’ state agencies and public universities telling them to stop using DEI criteria in hiring employees and admitting prospective students.

The term DEI has been used by left-wing activists to describe practices that give one group of people special treatment and advantages over most people in order to compensate them for past injustices.

In the February memo, Gov. Abbott’s Chief of Staff stated: “The innocuous sounding notion of DEI has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others.” There have been numerous questions about the legality of DEI-inspired policies and the Abbott administration maintains that state and federal law deem them to be clearly illegal.

Following Abbott’s letter, Chancellor Sharp spent several weeks “reviewing” A&M’s DEI practices before finally complying with the governor’s order to end them. The large university network, which Sharp has led since 2011, currently enrolls over 150,000 students. The A&M system will now require people seeking to work there to provide just a resume, cover letter, references, and other work-related materials.

Chancellor Sharp, a Democrat, was formerly the Texas Comptroller and Railroad Commissioner, and a longtime member of the State Legislature.

The anti-DEI non-profit National Association of Scholars celebrated the decision, tweeting “One by one, the DEI regime will fail.”

A&M’s decision is only the latest in a string of colleges and universities to scrap DEI and return to a merit-based admission and hiring system.

Just last week, the University of North Carolina announced that it was abandoning its former DEI policies. On Thursday, February 23, the school stated that going forward it “shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles … as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement.”

Patrick says

Have you noticed that lack of diversity at the Federal Reserve?

They know.

They can't let something as important as cartel control over the money supply fall into the hands of the incompetent.
Patrick says

Everyone should read this short story. Instead of "Karin," they should call these female hate/envy mongers "Diana," for Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General of the US in the story.

@Patrick, other essential reads are "1984," "Animal Farm," "Brave New World," and "Stand on Zanzibar ("I tell you three times.")."

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis

At a casual glance, the recent cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack. Almost half a million intermodal containers sat on cargo ships unable to dock at Los Angeles ports. A train carrying thousands of tons of hazardous and flammable chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Air Traffic Control cleared a FedEx plane to land on a runway occupied by a Southwest plane preparing to take off. Eye drops contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed four and blinded fourteen.

While disasters like these are often front-page news, the broader connection between the disasters barely elicits any mention. ...

The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society. ...

By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and laws—most critically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964—put meritocracy and the new political imperative of protected-group diversity on a collision course. Administrative law judges have accepted statistically observable disparities in outcomes between groups as prima facie evidence of illegal discrimination. The result has been clear: any time meritocracy and diversity come into direct conflict, diversity must take priority.

The resulting norms have steadily eroded institutional competency, causing America’s complex systems to fail with increasing regularity. ...

The prognosis is harsh but clear: either selection for competence will return or America will experience devolution to more primitive forms of civilization and loss of geopolitical power. ...

When the priorities of their organizations shift away from performance, high performers respond negatively.

This effect was likely seen in a recent paper by McDonald, Keeves, and Westphal. The paper points out that white male senior leaders reduce their engagement following the appointment of a minority CEO. While it is possible that author Ijeoma Oluo is correct, and that white men have so much unconscious bias raging inside of them that the appointment of a diverse CEO sends them into a tailspin of resentment, there is another more plausible explanation. When boards choose diverse CEOs to make a political statement, high performers who see an organization shifting away from valuing honest performance respond by disengaging.

Some demoralized employees—like James Damore in his now-famous essay, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”—will directly push back against pro-diversity arguments. Like James, they will be fired. Older, demoralized workers, especially those who are mere years from retirement, are unlikely to point out the decline in competency and risk it costing them their jobs. Those who have a large enough nest egg may simply retire to avoid having to deal with the indignity of having to attend another Inclusive Leadership seminar. ...

The U.S. has embraced a novel question: what happens when the men who built the complex systems our society relies on cease contributing and are replaced by people who were chosen for reasons other than competency?

The answer is clear: catastrophic normal accidents will happen with increasing regularity. While each failure is officially seen as a separate issue to be fixed with small patches, the reality is that the whole system is seeing failures at an accelerating rate, which will lead in turn to the failure of other systems. ...

Given the damage already done to competence and morale combined with the natural exodus of baby boomers a decades worth of tacit knowledge, the biggest challenge of the coming decades might simply be maintaining the systems we have today.

The path of least resistance will be the devolution of complex systems and the reduction in the quality of life that entails. For the typical resident in a second-tier city in Mexico, Brazil, or South Africa, power outages are not uncommon, tap water is probably not safe to drink, and hospital-associated infections are common and often fatal. Absent a step change in the quality of American governance and a renewed culture of excellence, they prefigure the country’s future.

Patrick says

The U.S. has embraced a novel question: what happens when the men who built the complex systems our society relies on cease contributing and are replaced by people who were chosen for reasons other than competency?

We already have 2 examples of what will happen. Look at the results in Rhodesia, and Union of South Africa when the Whites were expelled and took all corporate knowledge with them.

Tavistock Fabians and Royal Institute of International Affairs, along with their MI6 sub cults and apparatchiks like Soros, have chosen Communism as their social psyops infliction to destroy our country.

Having 'social credit scores' for all the captive investment companies, Swiss Octagon deploys BIS and the IMF top down to freeze credit and liquidity by threat for non-compliance, and shows their psychopathic centralized bully pulpit.

HeadSet says

Look at the results in Rhodesia, and Union of South Africa when the Whites were expelled and took all corporate knowledge with them.

It's not corporate knowledge that is missing, it's skilled labor.

Remember the Summer of Love in Seattle, where dipshit kids were planting crops (well supposedly). People that haven't done farming, even people that have only dabbled in gardening, have NO IDEA how to do large scale farming. It's not just putting a seed into the ground and watering every now and then. You have to detect pests, keep out weeks, know what pesticides and herbicides work, you need to know when to harvest, you need to understand the machinery, how to repair it, work with your neighbor to SHARE machinery (that's common), detect with the animals are sick, feed, them, know how to store food, know how to get this to market, handle expenses, you might even have to get into the commodities market, you have to worry about crop failure.

It's fucking hard.

Corporate knowledge is just knowing how to skim all this work and knowledge. I've considered setting up a business that does NOTHING other than pick up food from farms, and setting up a farmer's market, that has no fixed location. Just setup at a park "here's your 10 lbs of onions". Just bypass everything.

Food isn't taxable either.

richwicks says

It's not corporate knowledge that is missing, it's skilled labor.

"Corporate" as in "body", like in "Body of Knowlege." Not corporate as a legal business entity. Corporate knowledge as in what is learned with long experience in a specific job, learning unique details along the way. When the Whites were kicked out of Rhodesia, they took acquired skills that took years to learn. Even though the Whites had Black underlings, the White managers and White owners had needed skills such that an unexperienced Black person could not just walk into the job.

Patrick says

diversity implemented by retards turns out like everything else done by retards… fully retarded

https://4columns.substack.com/p/how-to-hollow-out-an-institution?r=patrick.net

Even Anheuser-Busch seems to think it owes us lectures on “inclusivity” or some other woke nonsense. It is, of course, America’s unwanted, unsupported new religion brought to you by a lot of the same folks who relentlessly sue to get religion out of any public space. So, if you want to destroy an institution, here is a simple list of action steps to help you expedite the process:

First, flood it with women. See higher ed. Fill your ranks to the point where you have a heavy supermajority of women and other docile, emasculated workers governed by lots of rules to protect people from being offended. Bring in as many young, female woke activists as you can who identify as “she/her” in their email signatures.

Second, put women in charge. Give them control of the entire HR/DEI/leadership apparatus. Give them the power to rule over everyone through noxious legal theories and infuse the institutions with feminine values- docility, a healthy work-life balance, getting along with others over doing good work, and “inclusivity” over truth.

Third, let DEI become the unofficial purpose of your institution. This will inevitably happen when you put enough women and feminized men in charge. Accordingly, in my former office, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the emails I received each week pertained to DEI events or initiatives. Another 1/4 pertained to Zoom brown bag sessions on how to care for your aging relatives or how to manage anxiety in the workplace.

Fourth, encourage then require telework. Do everything on Zoom, never meet your coworkers in person again, stay in your pajamas all day!!! Let’s be honest, telework is for mommies. I have nothing against mommies, I just am not one and I don’t think the workplace should cater SOLELY to their needs and interests. In fact, I view telework as a kind of cheating on the job. Being at home takes away your focus, but the mommies and nannies who run our culture won’t admit that.

Once you’ve taken these steps, your institution is well on its way to hollowing itself out and severing any connection to its original purpose. Think about how we handled the pandemic. What might have happened if we hadn’t already become a whining, nagging, hectoring Longhouse of a nation? During the Spanish Flu of 1918, only one city, San Francisco of course, required residents to wear gauze masks in public.

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer

The CDC probably started out as a noble cause seeking to protect Americans from infectious diseases, but after almost 80 years it has become an appendage of the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. A perpetual advocate for more medicines, vaccines, and treatments to inflict on the American people.

So it is with countless other institutions and organizations. Once noble causes, now corrupt rackets. I commend Christopher Rufo’s efforts to openly infiltrate and seize control of these deranged environments, but so many places are so far gone that we need to be talking about eliminating and dramatically shrinking useless, meddling bureaucracies. It’s either that or start building a parallel society that actually recognizes that we need MORE boys in STEM, for example. We can’t go on like this.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/overthrown-friday-december-15-2023

Love him or hate him, in the wake of the revolting testimony of the Ivy League presidents last week, Elon Musk called for the inglorious end of DEI earlier today:



In related news, two days ago Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt issued an executive order yanking every DEI office at every public university.

Activists have already filed Lawsuits against the Governor’s order, arguing it violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. But the order remains in effect while legal challenges are pending, and Oklahoma universities are currently undergoing the review process described in the order.

A few months ago in June, Florida passed a similar law, prohibiting the use of state funds for DEI initiatives at public universities. Legal challenges continue, but no court has yet agreed to stay the law. Meanwhile, Florida’s Board of Governors, which oversees the Florida State University System, is considering further restricting DEI programs, potentially mirroring Oklahoma's move, and is said to be considering reviewing and maybe eliminating categories of DEI positions.

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/college-student-submits-nearly-500-214835336.html

Open the above link and read about a Univ of Michigan student who is Asian American applying to +450 intern jobs and only getting one offer

I read stats like how people of color make up about 38% of middle ranks within the federal civil service. I think it is under reported and a lot more than 38%, and I think Asian Americans are still under represented along with White Americans.

I wonder if corporations now are in the same circumstance as far as demographics and demographic reporting.

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FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Patrick says

diversity implemented by retards turns out like everything else done by retards… fully retarded

I believe this all for the sake of causing chaos.

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/college-student-submits-nearly-500-214835336.html

Open the above link and read about a Univ of Michigan student who is Asian American applying to +450 intern jobs and only getting one offer

I read stats like how people of color make up about 38% of middle ranks within the federal civil service. I think it is under reported and a lot more than 38%, and I think Asian Americans are still under represented along with White Americans.

I wonder if corporations now are in the same circumstance as far as demographics and demographic reporting.

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You've got to wonder why smaller companies aren't running rings around their competitors now. If a company only hires the best, they should be able to totally kick ass.

GNL says

You've got to wonder why smaller companies aren't running rings around their competitors now. If a company only hires the best, they should be able to totally kick ass.

Because we don't have a free market economic system.

When a company really fucks up, the government bails them out.

5 trillion dollars was used for corona virus relief. 5 TRILLION. Where did that money go?

Corporations, favored corporations.

We haven't had capitalism in decades.

GNL says

Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?

To a large degree, yes, but not by psychologically healthy white people. All of them nurse some resentment or other:

- AWFL's (affluent white female liberals) who have the usual feminist resentments and insecurities
- Jews, who tend to blame all whites for the holocaust
- gays, who resent normal people

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-january-22-2024

The collapse of higher education

What’s wild about higher education is how completely useless it was in response to Covid. All of the tools of the physical and social sciences were abandoned in favor of fear, bias, panic, irrationality, obedience, and profit. The few academics who followed proper methods were fired. We spent hundreds of years developing the university system as a bulwark against tyranny and primitivism. And in the end it was just a Maginot Line that was overrun by the fascists.

gabbar says

GNL says

Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?

That's the most fucked up thing about it. It blows my mind. I've said before that white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there.

Edit: That's the most fucked up thing about it. It blows my mind. I've said before that, in a way, white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there. We are great at building, educating, inventing and organizing. But we lack something. I'd say our achilles heel is allowing others to guilt trip us. The other problem white people have is altruism. Christianity plays a large role in this. IMO

I hate to be white.
Look, not anymore:

REpro says

I hate to be white.
Look, not anymore:

You Hate being white? You're a perfect example of self hate. Why would you hate being white? That's ridiculous.

gabbar says

GNL says

Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?

It's the billionaire class doing it. I think it's just a way of ending social and economic mobility. It reduces competition for the ruling class, because merit is no longer a factor in advancement, kissing ass is. If you have a moron kissing your ass, well, you're not going to have to worry so much about them superseding you, but if you have a genius underneath you, it's quite possible they will.

You can't do this in a free market, but we're not in a free market.

GNL says

I'd say our achilles heel is allowing others to guilt trip us. The other problem white people have is altruism. Christianity plays a large role in this.

I think that's true.

White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.

You all have good points. I feel that politics is also a part of it because governments (even Saudi Arabia is experimenting but China isn't so far) are driving this one world/one people agenda utilizing media.

Patrick says

White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.

This shouldn't be viewed as liability/weakness but as strength/noble value?

Patrick says

Love him or hate him, in the wake of the revolting testimony of the Ivy League presidents last week, Elon Musk called for the inglorious end of DEI earlier today:

I love him. His twitter account is one example. He has spoken up in interviews, he doesn't sugar coat. Man went and smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show (most billionaires don't dare going on Rogan's show) in a t shirt. You see stuff on Twitter than is not allowed on any other media. Space X, Tesla.....He might start a charity foundation in the future, what should one expect more from him? Contrast him with other billionaire.....Bill Gates, Larry Fink, George Soros.....There is no other billionaire who is loved more than Elon.

GNL says

white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there.

No. More like, white politicians are the greediest out there.

gabbar says

Patrick says

White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.

This shouldn't be viewed as liability/weakness but as strength/noble value?

Not if you're losing. IMO

gabbar says

I love him. His twitter account is one example. He has spoken up in interviews, he doesn't sugar coat. Man went and smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show (most billionaires don't dare going on Rogan's show) in a t shirt. You see stuff on Twitter than is not allowed on any other media. Space X, Tesla.....He might start a charity foundation in the future, what should one expect more from him? Contrast him with other billionaire.....Bill Gates, Larry Fink, George Soros.....There is no other billionaire who is loved more than Elon.

Understand he's trying to sell cars. Although Space X is getting decent internet to weird/rural places. Just expensive as usual with a good 20-30% subsidized by actual taxpayers. I hope the Starlink users are enjoying the rockets we mostly pay for. Most don't.

He likes the attention. Helps him sell Teslas. He doesn't have to pay for marketing when he goes on the biggest podcasts. He knows he's getting softball questions. He has an awkward personality, but I'd say a Bill Gates type is exponentially more annoying and weird. Who wakes up and wants to make vaccines. Maybe cure cancer? Nah. Maybe heart disease without damaging other parts of the body? Nah. Let's make vaccines for a generally healthy population for things that don't kill people. Ding, that's the winner....

REpro says

Not gonna lie dude, this is a touch creepy.

https://notthebee.com/article/mckinsey-studies-used-to-justify-and-promote-dei-in-the-workplace-as-a-positive-for-business-were-just-shown-to-be-unreliable-yeah-the-results-show-dei-is-bad-for-businesses

Over the past few years, McKinsey has released at least 4 studies claiming a positive relationship between DEI and firm performance.

A new paper published today in Econ Journal Watch finds these results can't be replicated.

"Our inability to [replicate] their results suggests that ... they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.''

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/radio-free-america-wednesday-april

Intellectual, anticommunist, and conservative commenter James Lindsay persuasively argues that DEI, which like sewer water has now seeped into every nook and crevice of our public and private institutions, is actually a long-term socio-political military strategy by our enemies, principally China, to destabilize the United States. DEI is rendering impotent our military, our government, our universities, and even our strategically-critical corporations staffed by graduates of those undermined universities (think Boeing). If James is right, and I think he is, China’s destruction-by-DEI plan is working perfectly.

I think it was China all along, playing to the bitter incompetents, suggesting that they were unduly deprived of power, when in reality they were deprived of power because they are truly incompetent.

Now all levels of US corporations and government are staffed with comically incompetent woke idiots. China won.

Patrick says

Now all levels of US corporations and government are staffed with comically incompetent woke idiots. China won.

This is like saying Russia hacked our election, but not having any idea how.

DEI is not China, people in top positions of power didn't get there because they were the best, they got there because they are the most ruthless. They aren't competent and they are afraid of more competent people replacing them.

Do you think it's coincidence there's rumors that pedophilia is rampant in positions of power? If you are an intelligence agency and you have two identical and competent people, who would you prefer to be in power? The one you can control.

That's DEI as well. Hire this dumb loyal person that damned well knows they are there is because they are loyal, and that's the ONLY reason they are there. This is why our government is in shambles, everybody in a position of power is compromised. Ethical intelligent people won't play the game, scumbag intelligent people will, but any scumbag will. It will destroy the country, but it could be fixed if people just recognize scumbags are promoted to positions of power, not ethical people.

Adam Smith said: "ENLIGHTENED self-interest" The modifier gets left out.

Meaning, you're at Stage 4 or higher and aware of society, religion, morality, etc. and THEN you balance all that out in your self interest.

You don't say "Deindustrialize the Rust Belt so I can get an extra 1-2% and retire at 45 a multimillionaire. Damn the millions of lost jobs, manufacturing capacity, social effects, fuck those people, I gotta get mine"

That's raw self-interest.

Honestly, the whole "Fuck you all because I gotta be out by 50" is a major factor in the corruption and sell out to the CCP.

UCLA DEI CZAR Natalie Perry is so Lazy, she plagarized 5 pages straight - of her one and only academic paper.

https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1782443053317345688


It's almost not worth showing, because if you redacted all her plagarized portions, there would be nothing to read, like a FOIA on Ukraine Grants

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/no-sheetz-tuesday-april-23-2024-c

On the surface, the Muldrow v. St. Louis decision looks fairly unremarkable. A female St. Louis police sergeant alleged she was transferred to a less prominent job assignment because of her gender. The trouble with her case was her pay and benefits stayed the same, and the city argued she wasn’t harmed. But the Court unanimously agreed that even “small harms” — if tangible — are enough to support a Title VII claim for employment discrimination.

The liberals and conservatives on the Court probably agreed on the case’s conclusion for different reasons.

What has some DEI activists now wringing their hands is that pro-equality conservative lawfare groups hope to use the new decision to push back on Constitutionally repugnant anti-white discrimination. Disadvantaged white employees might now challenge so-called ‘affirmative action’ programs if they advantage minorities over white employees in even minor ways.

Examples might include things like mentoring opportunities open only to minority employees, or a meet-and-greet with executives excluding white folks, both of which may now be actionable under Muldrow’s new “some harms” standard.