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325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Alternative to Meritocracy

In the absence of a technical meritocracy you reverted to dynasty so it's aristocratic transmission of status or nepotism. As soon as you abandon the merit principle you open up the grounds in all likelihood to all sorts of corrupted mission processes. The universities are going to be wrestling with that they already are because one of the ways they discriminate against asians is by deeming certain stereotypical asian personality traits as not appropriate on the personality front and so and they do that to gerrymander admission criteria.

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