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A Vicious Assult on Merit
by Glenn Woiceshyn
[The following letter was published in the Globe and Mail on Sep/25/96.]
Dear Editor,
Re: "Open Season on White Males? Hardly"--by Kathryn Harrison--Sep/20/96--The
Globe and Mail
Professor Kathryn Harrison's methodology for justifying "employment equity"
is as follows: 1) count the percentage of blacks, whites, males, etc., in each job
category; 2) compare these percentages to the population at large; 3) attribute all
differences to racism and bigotry.
Accordingly, she recommends the sacrifice of individual rights on the altar of "equity"
by forcing employers to hire people according to race, sex, or other unchosen, nonessential
characteristic.
I submit that this is undiluted racism and bigotry, and a vicious assault on merit.
But Harrison claims, without an argument, that forcing employers to hire on the basis
of race/sex is "merit-based hiring" and the solution to racism and bigotry.
I thought universities are supposed to be institutions of higher learning, not centres
of ideological corruption bent on a return to barbarism.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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