This sort of thing is why despite the obvious injustices within the system for women and minorities, I cannot help but suspect a primary motive for many woke critics of meritocracy is lack of merit.https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1157619744201158656 …
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Obama was a black man with a single mother on food stamps and no real home who grew up to be a civil rights attorney, law professor, and President of the United Fucking States. There may be smarter or harder working people than him, but not one of them is an online edgelord.
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These two things are othogonal to each other. Obama is a striver, perhaps the most successful striver the Black American community ever produced in a long history of black strivers. Kudos! But yeah, his thoughts on most subjects are pretty much the centrist technocrat median
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He liked Sapiens for Christ’s sake
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