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“Equity” Over Merit

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The Disparate Impact of Discrimination

The idea of disparate impact is the idea that any standard meritocratic in terms of academic skills that has a negative impact on certain minority groups and above all on blacks is by definition racist. Unless in the legal context it can be justified at a very high standard of business necessity. Disperate impact arose because it was getting harder and harder to find employers that were intentionally discriminating against competitively qualified minorities.

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