Meritocracy v. Idiocracy

 

Often when I'm watching TV and an attractive actress has delivered a sterling performance, I'll say to no one in particular (because no one in particular is ever here) that "She does a good job for a girl with such a spankable bottom". 

Is that sexist or misogynist? I don't think so. I see it as a poignant, ferrer assessment. Here is the inspiration for today's post. A “DEI Hire”

  You might notice that the good doctor is quite attractive, in an approachable, girl-next-door sort of way. But she's sitting down while talking about D.E.I hires so we can't see her bonafides. Just trust me. I know what I'm talking about. The doctor explains quite well that people (republicans) who are against DEI do not know what they are complaining about and they have a funny way of looking at hiring when it comes to women and minorities. Male mopes like Trump, Musk and RFK Jr. are readily perceived as earning their stations in life despite us knowing better. A man can't sleep his way to the top. He has to earn it! Fight. Bleed. Kill even. Or get several hundred million from his daddy who fought for it, maybe. You know, the old-fashioned, John Houseman way; They earn it!

But any woman who has ever gotten anywhere in life, did so because she had a vagina and she knew how to use it. And the same goes for the overly pigmented types who use their melanin to cheat. Combine the vagina and the melanin and you got yourself a Kamala Harris, who very nearly took over the earth with her tartish *skills*. But enough about her. Let's talk about your mother. THAT tramp gave it up to your father and that's why you are here! I could rest my case right there. But I won't, because this is where I digress back to the point of this post.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) should not exist as policy, but it does/did because the natural order of things just wasn't cutting it. People (liberals) looked around and noticed that there weren't many women and people of color in the really good, important gigs in life, and they thought that was wrong and discriminatory. Was it though? Yes, of course it was. It wasn't policy- at least not anymore since the liberal induced Civil Rights Acts passed, but it was simply the way things should be. White, male men should get the good breaks in life like they always have because they earned it. This is actually really called meritocracy. I'm not making that up; maga republican think-tankers and pundits are. They believe that leadership is the domain of the white, male men who earned it, guys like Donald J. Trump. The United States needed the best white, male man for the job, and he was so obviously it. 

You couldn't have Kamala Harris, a very beautiful black woman, as POTUS, because she had oh-so obviously only succeeded in life as a prosecutor, Attorney General of California, US Senator from same, and Vice President of the US because she so obviously slept her way to all those positions, being beautiful and vagina-bearing. How else could a woman be all those things except for putting out? Suddenly- at times- vaginas were seen as an unfair advantage for those born that way, and it has been the same for people of color, even the one's without vaginas. Sensing an odd pattern here? One that might be racist and misogynist?  Yeah, me too. And I'll be goddamned if republicans didn't notice it as well. The shoe was on the other foot, and they didn't like it at all!

Republicans- even the pre-maga ones- never see the forest for all the trees. Charlie Kirk, Ericka Kirk's late, white, male man husband before he got kirked for some reason, said he got anxiety if he stepped onto a plane and saw a black pilot. He hoped the black guy could fly the plane. Well, yeah, Chuckles, they don't let you fly multi-million-dollar planes filled with people unless you've been thoroughly trained in handling a 747, regardless of race, color or creed. They don't just snag Luthor from the baggage claim and tell him, "The libs say you're a pilot now". There is meritocracy involved in aviation, as there should be. There's meritocracy involved in a lot of jobs, but probably not enough of them. DEI was/is an attempt to expand and level the playing field as much as possible, in as many aspects of life as possible. You can argue quotas as being 'unfair' to some, but you cannot argue that 100% white, male men positions were ever 'fair' to minorities. Meritocracy should be the norm, but it should not exclude race or gender. That's all DEI was intended to be. My God we'd be so much better off if Kamala Harris had prevailed! But idiocracy prevailed instead. I hope we end that someday soon. I won't hold my white, male man breath though. 

*I forgot to add in summation that good-looking women should not be judged for their good looks alone getting them to wherever they are in life. Their good looks should not be held against them. I remembered this while I was vacuuming my toaster and cleaning the vacuum canister after that. Those of us who can, do regardless of how we look. That's merit.