meritocracy

Aryeh Kontorovich @aryehazan · 23h I have vociferously disagreed with Scott Aaronson on a number of things I'm not even willing to endorse everything he wrote in this latest post but I'll fully endorse this bit, it's dead on [Embedded quote image, presumably from Scott Aaronson's blog:] "Let me make something clear: I don't focus so much on antisemitism only because of parochial concern for the survival of my own kids, although I freely admit to having as much such concern as the next person. Instead, I do so because I hold with David Deutsch that, in Western civilization, antisemitism has for millennia been the inevitable endpoint toward which every bad idea ultimately tends. It's the universal bad idea. It's bad-idea-complete. Antisemitism is the purest possible expression of the worldview of the pitchfork-wielding peasant, who blames shadowy elites for his own failures in life, and who dreams in his resentment and rage of reversing the moral and scientific progress of humanity by slaughtering all those responsible for it. Hatred of high-achieving Chinese and Indian immigrants, and of gifted programs and standardized testing, are other expressions of the same worldview."