Feds Can’t Hire For Competence Because Jimmy Carter Said It Was Racist. Trump Wants To Fix That.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Mar 11, 2025.

  1. ipatent

    ipatent

    Feds Can’t Hire For Competence Because Jimmy Carter Said It Was Racist. Trump Wants To Fix That.

    If government bureaucrats seem a little slower than employees elsewhere, it could be because a court order prohibits the federal government from using tests to objectively rank job applicants — on the basis that hiring the most competent employees had an “adverse impact” on blacks and Hispanics.

    A 1981 court order blocked agencies from using any test for job applicants that would result in a statistically significant difference in hiring rates between blacks and Hispanics on one hand, and whites on the other. That is akin to blocking colleges from using the SAT.

    Now, the Trump administration is set to ask a Washington, D.C., court to dissolve the 40-year ban, arguing that it illegally puts race over merit when it comes to federal hiring, The Daily Wire has learned. The move seems likely to prevail given the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, and could allow Donald Trump to permanently reshape the permanent federal workforce into one comprised of the best and brightest.
     
  2. Tests has nothing to do with affirmative action.
     
  3. ipatent

    ipatent

    There's no test that blacks and hispanics won't do worse on than whites, because of the IQ differential.
     

  4. Your white supremacist garbage talking point doesn't refute the fact that tests has nothing to do with affirmative action.
     
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  5. ipatent

    ipatent

    Asians score higher than whites, so there is no white supremacy.

    Eliminating the tests was part of affirmative action.
     
  6. Your IQ statement is certainly a widely used garbage white supremacist garbage talking point.

    Eliminating tests isn't needed to implement affirmative action.
     
  7. ipatent

    ipatent

    The black-white IQ gap is one of the best established phenomenons in the social sciences, and is regularly commented upon in the NYT and other publications.
     

  8. Now you're sounding like a white supremacist bot.
     
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  9. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Speak of bots, computer suggests this:

    "Research suggests that individuals with declining social status often seek ways to affirm their superiority over other groups. As white boomers in the U.S. have seen economic and demographic shifts challenge their historical dominance, some may latch onto IQ discussions as a way to reinforce a sense of inherent superiority."
     
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  10. Perfect description of ipatent.
     
    #10     Mar 12, 2025
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