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Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by esyir on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:23AM (#28807031)
The anti meritocracy argument goes, as it always does: meritocracy is not perfect => meritocracy is worthless and must be discarded.

It's an absolutely pointless argument that can be applied to any system that exists in the real world, instead of that of spherical cows.

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Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by avs733 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:04PM (#28812337)
I didn't say meritocracy is not perfect, I said that claims of meritocracy have no basis in reality.

Those are different. It isn't that meritocracy does or does not function - it is that it doesn't exist

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Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by jeherr on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:15AM (#28808843)
It’s the same argument Republicans use against the welfare state. Some people will abuse it so we just as well scrap the whole thing.
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Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by throwoutway on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:05AM (#28809945)
The argument I’ve heard against it, is not that “some” will abuse it, but eventually the majority will abuse it.
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