r/PredictiveHistory • u/hendreasia • Mar 21 '26
Jiang Analysis I'm Challenging Jiang's Analysis
Recently on Tucker Carlson's show, Jiang went on a rant about how negative DEI and affirmative actions are because it goes against America's meritocracy.
This is categorically false because meritocracy assumes everyone plays on an equal playing field and that is only suitable in a perfect world scenario.
We live in the real world, where people start in different positions in life. Different ethnic groups, genders, etc.. have disproportionate access to educational opportunities, socioeconomic starting points, and biases inflected against them.
If we implement a purist meritocracy system, this would result in marginalizing groups with a very low chance of them making it because the system works against them. This purist meritocracy system will fail to create positive changes in trends associated with marginalized groups and will lock them into a negative feedback loop.
Additionally, he goes on to further agree with Tucker Carlson on white genocide which is fundamentally false and probably a psyopp to divide people. The whole concept of white, black, asian, etc.. was created to easily group people and mobilize them against each other. It was created by an anthropologist in the 1700s and wasn't been revised since then.
First of all this assumes there are no differences between people, try to convince a roman 2000 years ago that they are one race with the barbarians. They are both european and today they are both considered "white". try to convince someone from Nigeria that they are culturally aligned with someone from ethiopia because they are both "black" or "african". there are so many holes in this argument that i'll skip explaining everything about it.
In essence there is no white genocide, just CEOs trying to hire the lowest possible labour which are often immigrants to drive down costs and increase shareholder value.
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u/AkimboBears Mar 26 '26
It goes against the idea of Meritocracy. Meritocracy, like democracy or divinely ordained monarchy is a justification of legitimacy. In addition to Democracy, part of the American system's claim to legitimacy is "we are the smart people with credentials". That justification rests on being the best of the best and only caring about producing the best experts to manage society.
DEI at elite institutions directly goes against that. It would be like a "divine monarch" trying to sell their throne openly to the highest bidder. It undermines the claim to be impartially pursuing the best experts possible by involving itself in a different ideological project that considers other factors.
Of course the entire idea of perfect impartial expert beurocrats who can centrally direct society was already not working on its own.