[JungleGymSam]

> The Pentagon’s new 33-year-old head of research and engineering lacks a basic science degree ...

This is funny because the left simultaneously hates meritocracy but slam it when it's problematic. Such intellectually dishonest people they are.

[mwfunk]

Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. If you're referring to things like encouraging diversity or CoC's or the other usual things that some personality types REALLY enjoy getting worked up over, the people that advocate them advocate them because they want to establish better meritocracies in the face of implicit biases. Biases that stand in the way of meritocracies (similar to things like nepotism, etc.).

You can disagree with them that those biases exist, or that that is a way to accomplish a more perfect meritocracy, but you can't claim that they are motivated by a desire to make anything less of a meritocracy. You can only claim that they're going about it the wrong way and give really thoughtful and coherent reasons why you think that's the case.

[iliekcomputers]

>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do.

I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in line with the opinion that meritocracy as a concept is flawed.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/ (sidenote: I agree with a lot of things in this link)

[SamReidHughes]

No, they literally do hate meritocracy. UCSF medical school didn't get more meritocratic by reducing Asian admissions from 60% to 20%.

[JungleGymSam]

> Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies...

Your very next sentence goes on to disprove that.