Kamala Harris is a DEI hire? Really? Let's Ask Mike Pence about that.

I always knew there would be a DEI backlash, and it is no surprise it has reached a fever pitch during the 2024 election cycle.

One of the problems I have been pointing out privately for years, and now publicly, is that DEI and AA initiatives enable dumb people to call into question the abilities of smarter underrepresented people. This happens everywhere, but it is particularly prevalent in STEM incidentally.

Here are two stories about the accusation that Kamala Harris is a DEI hire from two sources, one considered right wing and the other mainstream:

https://nypost.com/2024/07/06/business/america-may-soon-be-subjected-to-the-countrys-first-dei-president-kamala-harris/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/politics/kamala-harris-burchett-dei-hire-backlash/index.html

Is Kamala Harris a DEI hire? I would like to ask Mike Pence about that since she wiped the floor with him in their debate. She's smart and quick and he never really had a chance.

For that matter, if we could, we should ask John McCain or Mitt Romney if Barack Obama was a DEI hire? He whooped them without even breaking a sweat like early Ali fights. Again, Barack is fast and smart. Incidentally, to their credit, both McCain and Romney discouraged the more outrageous assertions, like "birtherism" for example.

Getting back to Kamala however, I am not surprised the "DEI hire" charge got trotted out. The irony is that it was being said by a string of absolute dopes and the smarter Republicans are trying to get them to shut up.

The other irony is that it is ridiculous to pretend that some of our most recent presidents really ascended due entirely to a meritocratic process. My claim is that Kamala and Barack would have succeeded in an entirely meritocratic process, whereas some of these other characters, not so much.

Nobody likes my solution, but I keep saying it anyway: Can we finally make the schools equal and just give everybody tests please?

Just as I am confident that Kamala and Barack would have succeeded in such a regime, I am equally confident that we would have been spared years of bombastic stupidity from the unqualified.

Finally, sure, I am perfectly ready to concede that I have known underrepresented people who made me question exactly how they got their job. Just like I have known plenty of well represented people who were obviously hired for reasons having nothing to do with merit.

My solution prevents all of them from ascending -- which is why plenty of people don't like it I imagine.