#Meritocracy

Chain Bear

chainbear

Feeling a bit frustrated that people think F1's new commitments to diversity will mean diverse hiring will 'shoehorn untalented minorities into F1 at the expense of actual worthy talent' and

Jade Bailey

jadebailss

Healthism: a newly emerging concept whereby those who consistently engage in health-promoting behaviours are viewed as superior to those who do not. Why is this a problem? Before I continue,

Sarah Haider 🚀

SarahTheHaider

Not necessarily! Inequality due to injustice is a problem (because injustice is a problem). Inequality that results in lack of social mobility is a problem (because lack of social mobility

MA Hui 马辉

MahuiChina

1.I watched a video of @mahbubani_k discussing his new book Has #China Won with Rob Johnson @INETeconomics in May. I am amazed by his insights into #China and China-USA relations.

Tactical Phase Lomez

L0m3z

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

Olivia A. Cole

RantingOwl

On Saturdays I teach a class of white women about the racism at the core of our ideas about white womanhood. One thing we talk about frequently is white motherhood

tef

tef_ebooks

i will never get over the dissonance between how we call google/twitter/fb centres of "top engineering talent" despite the products released by such continually demonstrating otherwise forgive me for tech

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

Equality of opportunity is an even worse idea than equality of outcome. No Conservative should be anything other than implacably & passionately opposed to both of them. Equality of opportunity

Maya Dukmasova

mdoukmas

It's truly wild how much property in Black neighborhoods in Chicago is owned by Eastern Europeans, Israelis, and South Asians if it's not owned by NYC private equity firms. Immigrant

Abandoned America 🏚️🇺🇲

abandonedameric

1/ As long as any person is alive there will most likely be some small part of them that thinks they're smarter than other people that died, and that if

Abby Fuller

abbyfuller

we have the same conversation every ~6 months. i didn't want changing my title to make a difference: i'm doing the same job! BUT IT DID.titles shouldn't matter, but they

Shesha

sheshadri__

Noticed the 'we should be more like Singapore' solution directed as an antidote towards Sri Lanka's treatment of minorities. Here is why I believe that fewer displays of racism doesn't

Ellie Mae O'Hagan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

elliemaeohagan

This article doesn't define what being working class means in the modern economy. If you're a freelancer who can't afford property, doesn't have basic rights like a pension and sick

Dom Weinberg

domweinberg

Head to your library, @JAdolesHealth 68:3, with our article, is here!Or click for #openaccess https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.06.031Country-level meritocratic beliefs moderate the social gradient in adolescent mental health: A mul

Eastbourne's premier jazz kazooist

eddsnotdead

I'd love it if intelligent discussion led to people changing their toxic attitudes, and sometimes, very rarely, it does. Sadly it doesn't on the whole. Nazi fuckers tried a coup

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Straight up confession: every time I read a biography of the Bloomsbury scene—Virginia Woolf, Keynes, Wittgenstein—I cry when it gets to the First World War. We were so close. We

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