When Race Trumps Merit How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

She's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She's the author of many books, but her most recent one is titled When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives.

She's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She's the author of many books, but her most recent one is titled When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives.

She's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She's the author of many books, but her most recent one is titled When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives.

The West is in a suicide mode right now that is one of self-loathing and this is the absolute perfect product of the university. It's not a mistake. It's a feature, not a bug.

We are a culture now that is engaged in self-loathing. And when the West tears itself down, there's going to be nothing left.

We should not be tearing down our standards, Megan.

They have discarded meritocratic standards when it comes to hiring and promoting and admitting blacks.

Heather McDonald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of fantastic books like When Race Trumps Merit and The War on Cops.

Heather is a contributing editor at City Journal and author of the book, When Race Trump's Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives. I love this book.

Since you said we couldn't have affirmative action, black this is from their amicus brief, black Native Americans and Latinx students are not sufficiently represented at most competitive universities of California. And they widely report struggling with feelings of racial isolation.

The reason that we do not have proportional representation in universities or any other meritocratic institution, Megan, is not racism. Standards are not racist.

If you're a black student who is studying, who is paying attention in class, you will be demeaned as somehow betraying your race.

The reality is being black today in any mainstream institution confers an enormous advantage.

It is all coming down. I see it on a daily basis. There's not a single meritocratic institution above all in the sciences and medicine that is not in the crosshairs. Any institution that is not proportionally black is now vulnerable.

Her new book, Med April release, When Race Trump's Merit is now available.

Now Heather has just written a book called When Race Trumps Merit, and I thought it could have been titled somewhat more broadly when group identity trumps merit because it's not a problem that's only focused on race although that's definitely a punchier title.

So this book provides the data that explains why there is disparate impact when you apply those colorblind neutral standards of merit.

And your concern which is partly what you're laying out in this book is that that axiomatic apri presumption of prejudice based on the mere observation of differential group representation is not only faulty but faulty enough to threaten the entire enterprise of merit itself.

I want to talk to you for about half an hour on the daily wire plus side of the platform maybe we could have a specialized conversation in the feminization of modern institutions because I would like to talk to you about that in some detail so for those of you who are listening and watching on you on the daily wire plus platform I often walk my guests through a bit of an autobiography looking at how their career unfolded for them and how their interests made themselves manifest in their life how their parents supported them or didn't support them more often did support them in the case of successful people but I think with Heather will turn to this issue of the feminization of of the modern institution and delve into that a bit more in detail so for those of you might be interested in that you could pick that up on the daily wire plus platform and we should probably turn to that for now thank you very much for talking to me about your book today and about your broader concerns and the book is coming out when April 18th but it's available for pre-order now I don't know when this podcast goes out but you can still be in within within the next week or two so it should be well time with regard to the release of your book and so thank you everyone for attending on the YouTube side of the world and for the daily wire plus people who've made this conversation possible for the film crew here in Oxford England because that's where I happen to be today and and to you Heather thank you very much for agreeing to talk to me today and congratulations on the impending publication of your book thank you so much Jordan I appreciate it's always a pleasure hello everyone I would encourage you to continue listening to my conversation with my guest on dailywireplus.com

bestselling author of "When Race Trumps Merit,"

We often hear about systemic racism in the US, and you've done a lot of research on this very topic for your new book, When Race Trumps Merit, that's published by The Daily Wire

In your book, When Race Trumps Merit, you outlined how pervasive this issue is and that it's not just in traditional four-year colleges and universities.

That was Heather McDonald, author of the new book, When Race Trumps Merit.

She's the author of the recent bestseller When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives.

And you say a lot more in your book, When Race Trumps Merit. And that can be picked up anywhere you get books, including Amazon.

You just simply believe that whites are evil, western civilization is evil. Israel is now white and western and therefore evil, and so you have these bizarre alliances.

It's a complete double standard. It's a war on excellence.

It is a war on whites. And now it's a war on Asians as well.

Our standards are not racist, whether it's in the criminal law or in medicine or in high tech. Those standards are not racist. They're colorblind.

The problem is the skills gap and the problem is the crime gap.

Heather McDonald, Manhattan Institute fellow, author of When Race Trumps Merit.

Heather McDonald from the Manhattan Institute uh when race trumps merit is her book also go to clanbuck.com her piece California's looming crime catastrophe is there Heather great work as always thanks for being with us

I'd encourage you to go read that book fearless in an era when buck as you well know far too many people in media are cowards that is the word for fearless yes fearless and factual yeah good good combo