Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Harrison Bergeron University

By An Old Friend
Tue, Jul 21, 2020 2:23 a.m.

Harrison Bergeron University

Harrison Bergeron University



Posted by 
William A. Jacobson    Monday, July 20, 2020


Yesterday I posted about the proposed elimination of "blind auditions" for symphony orchestras, so that race and gender could be used as selection criteria to help diversify orchestra musicians. It would be the elimination of what previously was a meritocracy:
For decades leading symphony orchestras have used "blind auditions" to hire musicians. That is, the musicians are not seen at all, only their music is heard. That way, implicit or explicit racial, ethnic, or gender bias cannot enter into the hiring decision, only the quality of the music. It is as close to a pure meritocracy as I can imagine….
The desire to move away from "blind auditions" hurts people who otherwise would have been chosen based on the quality of their music, or in other contexts, their academic performance on standardized tests and other objective measurements….



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vonnegut was brilliant in this story.To think of a scenario like the one Vonnegut concocted,he must have been either clairvoyant or a pessimist to the nth degree--which means he DID understand human nature.A lot of people who want to govern us are evil.
If White genocide is in our future,a few around here understand human nature too unfortunately--and in this case it's black nature--also evil but racist in its goal--to eliminate whites.Whites like antifa members would be Vonnegut's likely antagonists--willing to stifle/ kill their own to take over society.
He'll probably be more right than wrong in his future view of America.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

RED BULL SAYS,"NO"--FIRES PRO BLM DIVERSITY DIRECTORS
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/red-bull-fires-woke-diversity-directors-who-tried-push-blm-support
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Red Bull has fired two ‘diversity directors’ who tried to force the company into virtue signaling about Black Lives Matter while also dissolving several ‘culture teams’ who were pressuring Red Bull to take a more aggressive ‘woke’ political stance.



Stefan Kozak, its North America chief executive, and Amy Taylor, its North America president and chief marketing officer, have both left the Austrian drinks company after they tried to create a schism within the business about its supposed “inaction on the Black Lives Matter movement.”
GRA:Let's hope others follow Red Bull's lead.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

jerry pdx
We know what's going on with this. Orchestras are "too white" despite the blind auditions. This way they can "diversity" and virtue signal to the world. Players of lesser ability will be selected so they can "add color" discriminating against superior white players.