{"id":1956398,"date":"2023-06-25T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prepare-for-disparate-impact\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T09:23:02","slug":"prepare-for-disparate-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prepare-for-disparate-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for Disparate Impact."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprepare-for-disparate-impact%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>REVIEW: \u2018When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives\u2019 by Heather Mac Donald<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In her latest book, <em>When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives<\/em>, bestselling author Heather Mac Donald skewers the ideology of &#8220;disparate impact&#8221;\u2014a &#8220;once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-critical-race-theory-is-a-resource-to-transform-judiciary\/\" title=\"Federal Court: Critical Race Theory Is a \u2018Resource\u2019 To \u2018Transform\u2019 Judiciary\">obscure legal theory<\/a> that is now transforming our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Mac Donald, disparate impact\u2014in which any negative or disproportionate outcome impacting black Americans is declared to be a &#8220;tool of white supremacy&#8221;\u2014has been deliberately developed and leveraged as a cultural tool, targeting &#8220;the very fundamentals of a fair society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, she argues, meritocracy, fealty to the rule of law, and even respect for our civilizational inheritance stand in the way of achieving so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-progressives-shocked-to-learn-black-and-latino-voters-dont-share-their-radical-defund-the-police-views\/\" title=\"White Progressives Shocked To Learn Black And Latino Voters Don\u2019t Share Their Radical \u2018Defund The Police\u2019 Views\">-called racial justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Donald describes 2020 as a potentially &#8220;pivotal moment in American history,&#8221; accelerating the notion that racism defines America. This idea, she believes, is tearing the country apart, with any protest rejected by the same &#8220;just believe&#8221; mandate used by the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, any roadblock to the achievement of &#8220;exact racial proportionality&#8221;\u2014with the key to disparate impact being the presumption of racial proportionality with no regard for factors such as behavior and ability\u2014is itself evidence of this same systemic racism.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>When Race Trumps Merit<\/em>, Mac Donald explores three fundamental areas of American life to support her hypothesis that the country is engaging in a fit of &#8220;cultural self-cancellation&#8221; that is impoverishing the imagination, stunting the capacity for wonder and joy, and stripping the future of everything that gives human life meaning: beauty, sublimity, and wit.<\/p>\n<p>The first two chapters are dedicated to science and medicine, which were hit &#8220;like an earthquake&#8221; by the &#8220;post-George Floyd racial reckoning&#8221; unleashed in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Donald provides the reader with a deep dive into the racialized nature of today\u2019s scientific community, arguing that American elites have simply moved on from failing to close the academic skills gap by deciding to &#8220;break up the objective yardsticks that measure it,&#8221; including dismantling the system of knowledge underpinning modern medicine. &#8220;The result,&#8221; says Mac Donald, &#8220;will be a declining quality of medical care and a curtailment of scientific progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mac Donald then moves on from the world of science and explores the abstract world of culture. Across 10 chapters she explores the pursuit of racial proportionality across classical music, opera, and art.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this section\u2014compared with the former and latter sections\u2014is that the bulk of the book is dedicated to subjective expressions of art sandwiched on either side by the comparatively objective areas of science and crime. While the critiques of certain artists under the &#8220;rise of mediocrity&#8221; might highlight the breadth of the blind pursuit of racial proportionality and the erasure of Western culture, it must be said that by placing such significance upon subjective areas of human expression\u2014rather than objective fields of pure meritocracy\u2014Mac Donald is in danger of diluting the strength of her overarching argument.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final section is an emotionally stunning investigation of the effect of disparate impact analysis on the American criminal-justice system, &#8220;where every disparity in arrest or incarceration rates is now attributed to racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the decline of New York City into a haven for criminal behavior as an example, Mac Donald argues that two decades of successful efforts to combat crime have been voluntarily cast aside, with the spread of violence and predation erupting as a predictable result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acknowledging the vastly higher black crime rate is taboo,&#8221; Mac Donald points out, with Democrats preferring to blame the supposed systemic racism of law enforcement or\u2014if necessary\u2014focus on the insidious (and often imagined) presumption of white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;anti-racism orthodoxy,&#8221; if we are unable to discuss the root causes of higher black crime\u2014&#8221;above all, family breakdown,&#8221; Mac Donald adds\u2014then the only way we can achieve racial proportionality regarding crime is to stop the penalization of criminal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, &#8220;elite \u2018anti-racists\u2019 absolve blacks from responsibility for their actions,&#8221; Mac Donald writes. &#8220;This patronizing attitude is today\u2019s real racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Providing the reader with an almost overwhelming trove of pure data\u2014including a moving account of forgotten black victims of gang violence deemed unimportant by the mainstream media and the Democratic Party\u2014Mac Donald proves that criminal violence is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prepare-for-disparate-impact\/\" title=\"Get ready for Disparate Impact.\">main problem afflicting urban black communities<\/a>, and not police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the areas of science, the arts, and criminal justice, <em>When Race Trumps Merit<\/em> is not only an enthralling account of the reality of so-called anti-racism efforts in the United States, but a resolute warning of the dangers of unfettered disparate impact analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Western civilization contains too much beauty and grandeur, too much achievement, and too much innovation\u2014from advances in the sciences to the blessings of republican self-government\u2014to be lost without a fight,&#8221; Mac Donald concludes. &#8220;It <em>will<\/em> be lost, however, if disparate impact continues to be our measure of injustice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives<\/em><br \/> by Heather Mac Donald<br \/> DW Books, 320 pp., $28.99<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is a writer, speaker, and former Big Tech insider. He also hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WatchOffLimits\">&#8220;Off Limits with Ian Haworth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her book, &#8216;When Race Trumps Merit&#8217;, Heather Mac Donald criticizes the ideology of &#8220;disparate impact&#8221; and its consequences on excellence, beauty, and lives. She questions the pursuit of equity at the expense of merit, highlighting the potential threats it poses. Mac Donald&#8217;s insightful analysis challenges prevailing notions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":1956399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}