The Caustic Legacy of Griggs v. Duke Power Company
The theory of "disparate impact" entered American jurisprudence in 1971 and immediately began to make things worse for minorities.
Everything has a disparate impact on some individual or group.
Disparate impact used to be called another name - "life".
The idea that things like math, engineering, and science are based in white supremacy simply due to disparate impact on minorities is nuts, they have disparate impact on the less educated and less intellectually capable regardless of minority status. Even within those areas, there are STEM workers who exhibit different levels of competence. Just because I can build a two-bedroom house does not mean I can build a skyscraper, even though the very basic knowledge is the same.
Asian students might be said to be victims of disparate impact - simply because they tend to do BETTER in STEM fields than the alleged white supremacists with whom they compete.
The way out is not to punish white people or dumb down the requirements necessary to enter these fields, it is to raise the level of education and competence of the population.
STEM careers are valuable to society, that's why an engineer has a higher salary than a barista.
Calling these careers part of "white supremacy" is just an excuse for failing the very people some claim to protect by ending objective standards and teaching them things that are worthless in all except the Grievance Olympics where one group vies with the other for the gold medal in victimhood.
Let’s assume for a moment that STEM is rooted in white supremacy due to the fact that Caucasians of northern European descent have traditionally performed better in these areas. Does that make these skills any less beneficial to society at large, including minorities, just because white people discovered, invented, or improved them?
In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming first observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus failed to grow in those areas of a culture that had been accidentally contaminated by the green mold Penicillium notatum.
Fleming was white.
Calculus was independently developed in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, two white dudes.
The invention of algebra is credited to the Greek mathematician Diophantus, known as the father of algebra, but the development, expansion and application is credited to Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, who is known as the founder of algebra.
Two swarthy dudes.
The real question is not what the skin color of the person who discovered penicillin, calculus, and algebra, rather whether the discovery of penicillin, calculus and algebra has been beneficial to society and civilization at large and whether these types of advances should be propagated and nurtured in the human mind, regardless of what color the chassis the mind is transported in.
The theory of disparate impact arose from the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971), a case presenting a challenge to a power company’s requirement that employees pass an intelligence test and obtain a high-school diploma to transfer out of its lowest-paying department. This was considered discriminatory against blacks because they were the most likely at the time to not be able to pass the tests or have a high school diploma, which had less to do with being black and more to do with the condition of public schools in black neighborhoods.
Now we are seeing disparate impact becoming the reason to eliminate any objective standards and measures in schools and universities because scoring is “discriminatory”.
Rather than addressing the root problem of poor education, the idea of disparate impact was ensconced in American law to deal with the symptoms and has been a tool of social engineers (not literal engineers) ever since, used to "balance" socioeconomic situations.
It is an attempt to hold back the tides of reality. It never works.
Ask King Canute.
When any society has been 'dumbed down' it makes it easier to control. This control then leads to division of the people, which is yet the next step on the ladder of control. Anything done or said to be benefitting one group of people over another is yet nothing more than the next rung of the ladder of division and therefore offers even more opportunity for further control.
Add to all of that, control over the media, and therefore the news released to the masses, and you then have messages to these divided groups that ultimately turn into votes and votes turn into Power and Power gives you the highest level of control!
And there you have the circle of life for Control of the masses. Historically this circle of life does not end well.
My 2 cents.
Yes, I agree - so, the teachers union pushes disparity as a means to skate from the responsibility of being the cause of poor education - “Rather the am blame ourselves, let’s blame white people (even though they themselves are…white!”