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post 1657518793 03-07-2022, 04:53 PM
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Do you guys actually believe America is a meritocracy?

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post 1657518813 03-07-2022, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted By Wheyvid
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post 1657519033 03-07-2022, 05:00 PM
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post 1657519103 03-07-2022, 05:01 PM
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post 1657519263 03-07-2022, 05:08 PM
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post 1657519373 03-07-2022, 05:11 PM
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Up to a certain point, but above that point.....no
post 1657519413 03-07-2022, 05:12 PM
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No such thing exists but it exists more in America than anywhere else.
post 1657519423 03-07-2022, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted By bsmit107
Up to a certain point, but above that point.....no
What about marginalized groups. You have communities who tried to build wealth like Tusla and it was burned down, or being excommunicated from the economy.
post 1657519533 03-07-2022, 05:14 PM
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Wouldn’t that imply people with more skill have more say in government decisions? No, that’s not the case in USA. At least, not directly. However, people with more skill will likely amass more wealth, which they could use to influence the public and thus the government.
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If a retard like Lebron James can become a billionaire, anybody can (assuming you're genetically gifted with freakish athletic talent and 6'8'' tall).
post 1657521813 03-07-2022, 06:01 PM
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Trump became rich with only a small loan of a million dollar. Anybody can.
post 1657521903 03-07-2022, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted By Wheyvid
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Id say the closest who have achieved a meritocracy are the asians/indians. But there is a long way to go esp. when it comes with management positions
post 1657522183 03-07-2022, 06:11 PM
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It is in the sense you're referring to OP. Only pseudoscientific anti-racists reject the idea of meritocracy because it justifies their belief in affirmative action. If meritocracy didn't exist then high school and college would be pointless, and all the data suggests the opposite

Anti-racist marxist professors reject the idea of meritocracy because such an idea is considered 'white' and serves as an obstacle to the discrimination they want to impose on white people.

Cliffs: OPs a sheep
post 1657522263 03-07-2022, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted By Wheyvid
What about marginalized groups. You have communities who tried to build wealth like Tusla and it was burned down, or being excommunicated from the economy.
elaborate on this? I wonder how realistic it is to create a self sustaining economy in a community
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post 1657522443 03-07-2022, 06:17 PM
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To some extend - at the very least we are closer to the meritocracy than a caste system.
post 1657522833 03-07-2022, 06:28 PM
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Not when Biden's crackhead son can get millions for a no-show job in Ukraine under Zelansky regime. Nepotism and pay for play are the rules of the game.
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post 1657523243 03-07-2022, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted By imbored17
elaborate on this? I wonder how realistic it is to create a self sustaining economy in a community
He's being brainwashed with Critical Race Theory. He's talking about a racial conflict that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Anti-racist sheep use history to justify the failures within the black community today, thus generating a false pretext for the necessity of discrimination today and forever against white people in every single institution in America. CRTers do this by brainwashing ignorant white people into rejecting meritocracy as something that can't be possible in a country as racist as USA, a country that elected Barack Obama. When you bring up this point, anti-racists will respond with something like 'Well, Obama upheld the status quo' or 'So? The election of Donald Trump proves this is still a racist country.'

Here is an illegal example of Critical Race Theory in practice, perpetuated by the highest office in the land. This is why far leftists hate the constitution--the anti-discrimination clause of the 14th amendment prevents them from discriminating against white people in the way they would like.The end goal of CRT is Jim Crow style discrimination against white people on every single level, regardless of class.

They believe if they can convince enough white people into believing their marxist filth, white people will literally allow themselves to be discriminated against.

post 1657523353 03-07-2022, 06:40 PM
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post 1657525383 03-07-2022, 07:41 PM
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Used to be; but lately meritocracy is seen as something racist and exclusionary and thus it's being removed as the basis for choosing the best and the brightest.
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Mouth breathing misc believes a lot of stupid things.

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