Per Ross and @toad_spotted, yes white strivers are withdrawing from the testing/scholastic rat race for fear of losing to Asians...but instead simultaneously prioritizing what the striver class excels at: performing the baroque court rituals of American class/racial politics https://twitter.com/douthatnyt/status/1284901429581422604
You might not be to get your kid to outcompete his first-gen Asian classmate on the AP calc test, but you’ll definitely get your kid to outcompete him on the AP anti-racism test where the expectations are a constantly changing set of verbal tricks and historical anecdotes
It’s not so much that meritocracy has been abondobed, it’s just that what counts for merit is moving away from the hard measures of a testing regime, to the soft, culturally inflected measures of social graces and specialized verbal know-how
There’s also the missing point that this is not just about race, about whites feeling increasingly precarious against Asian brain-power, but the feminization of our institutions and the feminine obsession with the social element
Again
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