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“Equity” Over Merit

City Journal's 10 Blocks

CHAPTER

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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