Race, Merit, and The Future of Our Republic | Heather Mac Donald
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2024
- This is an excerpt from The Larry Arnn Show, in which Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn interviews author and scholar Heather Mac Donald. The two discuss the dangers created when American institutions abandon merit-based selection in favor of racial quotas, as detailed in her book When Race Trumps Merit. Later, Mac Donald breaks down the statistics reflecting the startling increase in violent crime in American cities. This interview was conducted on October 28th, 2023.
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By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.
Heather is always really on it. We need more of her.
Amen ! Amen ! More two older daughters attended & graduated in 2012 & 2014 . Both later received their respective Maters Degrees .
Thank you Hillsdale College. I have used your Constitution 101 and Economics free courses in my homeschool curriculum. I am glad that you are also doing interviews like these, so I can warn my children of the manipulations out there, and to critically think through every situation. You are a blessing. God Bless.
Heather McDonald is a national treasure.
This hits the nail and the head. Our society is dying if we do not change.
Our society is dying if we do not defend the white race
This is an extremely important conversation. I really hope that many people (across all spectrums-race, religion, ethnicity, etc.) would listen to Heather. I feel that we have entered the "Dark Ages" of our time and are entering the beginning of the end of western civilization.
Please keep going on Heather &Larry the West needs you both watching you from Scotland.
I went to Catholic school, Latin for 4 years was required. I pursuaded mybson to take Latin also for 4 years and told him he would thank me. He actually did thank me while in college. He graduates this year from High Point University in NC. His dad and I always told him to love learning and not get caught up in grades. Thank you for these wonderful conversations and interviews. Heather MacDonald is superb.
I had a very positive experience at Hillsdale a couple of years ago. I was driving one of my big trucks and passed a student who interrupted his time and took me on a walking tour of campus.
I was impressed with everything.
I have retired, and so am of limited resources.
I am still impressed. Thank you for what you do, and please stay in touch.
I appreciate the works of Ms. Mac Donald. She very much reminds me of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling whose masterpiece, “Broken Windows” immediately comes to mind.
She also reminds one of Professor Wilson’s 1993 work “The Moral Sense,” in particular. In today’s academia, conservatives like Ms. Mac Donald and Professors Wilson and Kelling stand out as rare luminaries who have made contributions to upholding American society!
I also count Robert Heinlein, the conservative Science Fiction writer among the same.
Myself, a Hillsdale College supporter, wholeheartedly thank Dr. Arn and the faculty for their dedication and excellence in American education!
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Merit gives the human species a function that equality of the species cannot give! Human potential must be praised and given a nod to our creator!
Having courage to say the truth is historically speaking not enough. Just ask those that signed the Declaration of Independence.
Heather is a breath of fresh air. She is no nonsense and tells it like it is straight up. Many people have a hard time listening to her because she disassembles the DEI propaganda of oppressors and oppressed. Her recent book on the issue of the fall of meritocracy is perhaps the most important book written about race relations in the past half century.
Fantastic! Great respect for you both!
It’s always best for the facilitator to be quiet and let the guest shine.
Love hearing from Heather
When Heather speaks I listen. Pure common sense and truth. Don’t believe me? Read her books and gain knowledge.
Misdiagnosing the causes for an issue is a surefire way of not finding solutions. Thank you for your honesty
Heather - thanks for resisting Larry’s explanation around your motivations for your writings. You are protecting and defending what you love and have loved. Hoping that others have access to what you have experienced as marvelous and beautiful. That seems to me your driving motivations.
Heather is brilliant!
People will live down to our expectations every day..
When I went to high school in California the schools were run by local districts and we ranked #1 in the nation.
Then the state school board took over and the teacher's union dictated how the schools should be run. Now California ranks in bottom 20%.
Tragic. Destruction.
This was very interesting and eye opening. The gradual change isn’t going to be how we see fit for us! That’s the same mistake we made before.
Exceptional interview.
Always love hearing from Heather
I went in the military in the '80s as an avionics tech (I could have done anything but I loved planes, and I am nearsighted). We had "black" nuclear technicians from the inner city. When I spoke to them about 'the culture' they came from they told me the reason they joined the military was to get away from the culture.
As someone who feels Chopin's _Waltz in E flat major, Op. 18_ is his favorite song ... I can't believe I'd never heard Chopin's _Scherzi_ before Ms. MacDonald mention it. And I now see why she clarified she's unable to play them. The level of difficulty may be unrivaled. (and also beautiful). Always edifying to listen to Heather.
Everything Heather admires and loves was the product of the white race.
#2 is his most famous scherzo. It is a personal fav
Ms. MacDonald should be Secretary of Education.
I am for abolishing that institution and letting the states once again watch over the school systems in their own districts. I think our federal government has overstepped their bounds one too many times. This is one area that they should never have got involved in. We need those seperation of powers.
@@sues3218 Actually, I agree with you. We can thank the Peanut Farmer for that position. Unfortunately, I don't see you and I getting our way in that regard. So, if we must, it should be someone that espouses MacDonald's views.
Since its inception, the federal Dept. of Education has presided over consistent declines in test scores and increases in federal funding to teachers' unions.
Knowledge produces Home and Hearth, Stability, and Time for clear thought..As opposed to Wandering around and those things that result.
Thank you, welcoming, clarity
Hope Academy in Minneapolis is a great example of a private school serving the inner city. Check it out!
(Classical education model with Latin, school raises money more than charging students tuition, engages families - like the parent report card and mom's prayer group)
As a trained classical musician for over 35 years , I can relate and attest to the topic of meritocracy in the music world. I was a musician at the highest level- played with, toured, recorded with many orchestras. And the number of auditionees for an opening in an orchestra was severely understated. It’s not unusual for over 200 players to show up for an audition. I know all about the audition experience. Excellent discussion.
Blk people (most) don't listen to classical music. Heather tries to make it sound like blk people are in those spaces taking it over when in reality it is Asians who dominate classical music. Heather is a racist, make no mistake about it.✔
Cheers!🍸
Greetings from Quincy, Massachusetts. My teams have spent a few years studying the ultimate or penultimate results of preferences here. Including in the supermarket.
Diversity?! We live in the most diverse group of people who live in the safest and wealthiest society in human history!! We didn't need DEI, we just had the value of hard work and education...meritocracy!
DEI has ruined the meritocracy that made the country the best in the world. Now its crumbling under the weight of diversity.
Fascinating
Save this institution and these wonderful fellows
The book "Charter Schools and Their Enemies" by Nobel Prizedeserving economist Thomas Sowell shows the way to excellent education for all children.
He is a brilliant and wise man. I highly recommend people listen to his interviews and read his books.
She’s absolutely brilliant!!
❤ Heather
Thanks for the necessary reflections about education and politics, so nedeed in our time.
She is right regarding parental responsibility!
I love this!
“The inebriation of power…” I love listening to her!
I have always given cops more than they asked, and because of that I have never been in conflict.
Great interview. I have her book on my shelf, but I haven't yet taken the time to read it. Guess I know what is next on my list now.
Heather is the woman! What a brilliant political analyst. Always impressed by her and always come away knowing more than I did before I listened.
How to increase diversity in higher education? Enforce standards in lower education and end social promotion.
Minority kids don't need quotas. They have the same abilities as anyone else. Prepare them for college!
Thank you
Agree totally with her assertion that a kid's success at school begins at home. Absent a home environment that honors education, a student today must rely 100% on his/her own initiative. And the odds are against the kid. A few will rise above and succeed, but on average, most will disdain education just as they learned at home to do. MacDonald has it right - unless/until we change our social paradigm (that starts with a family/home environment that values education), education quality will never improve - it will only continue to decay.
Calling deconstruction “poison”… yes! It was taught to me in the Cal State system in the 90s. Fortunately, I snapped out of it and embraced Catholicism. 😁
Heather MacDonald is one of the few women in America who "gets it," understands what's going on. I think there are only 5 or 6 left..
Perhaps she is one of the few women in the media who gets it, however I am a woman and have many many female friends and acquaintances who “get it”. We are out there!
@@nnm9148Thank God! My point is she is one of only a few women with a national platform who discusses this out loud. Those of us who have worked in the "justice system" know by experience what she's saying.
@@nnm9148 But you are way too quiet.
Heather has laser focus and has the strength of character to tell the truth without fear. A true American Treasure.
I hundred % agree with the subject being discussed in this discussion
I love hillsdale
The first rule in dog training " First you have to be smarter than the dog " . We need smarter teachers.
Classical Music …Hillsdale Online Course? 🎻📯🎼
"I want to value accomplishment." Let the rest of the world hear it.
When and where has true merit existed in education and professions? From my observations and experiences, merit is an ideal to obtain….something to aim to achieve. Nepotism abounds, but true merit I have not witnessed.
Raise their IQ ? cannot raise people's IQ !!!!!
Exactly. In Every study ever done, race correlates with IQ. There *is* a temporary ‘head start’ effect on toddlers that wears off by 1st grade.
She should be a college president … !!
I would like ask the professors at the university where I work how much of what they teach is fact and how much is opinion.
The secrets of existence are found in communication, affinity and reality.... especially communication. I just salvaged a relationship with a fierce determination to do these three. And, these racists are hallucinating.
I love my Mom, Sandra Anne. She drilled into me to submit to arrest by police, because I was a wild child from rural America (just drinking at crazy keg parties and drag racing type things), she told me the only thing I could say to them, every time with her finger in my face, was "I want a lawyer.". . Again, I Love you Mom
My Mom was a self taught lawyer, and homesteader, and bit of a business law 'activist '. My dad was from the boonies, that headed a division at an integrated circuit company, Fairchild that made circuits that went to the Moon on Apollo. Just lost dad last year. Gut-wrenching stuff
I'm pretty sure they were not involved in your fevered fantasies
DEI is by definition a sacrifice of meritocracy. There is only compromise.
This is months old. It should have a stamped date.
what about our grand kids future???
Public school admins increased by 92% since yr 2000, where did that stat come from ?
I saw that somewhere, student enrollment up 2%, teachers up 10%, admins up 8x%. Whenever a levy passes, most of the money goes to admin.
Good movie:Hidden Figures starting Kevin Costner and Taraji P.Henson!
The “why” is Marxism. We’re currently in the middle of a Marxist cultural revolution. Race is just the tool the Marxists are using. They’re also using gender, but it could be anything. For Soviet Russia they used class as the tool for the revolution, but that tends to not work in the West. Marxism is what we need to root out. Don’t get distracted by the small skirmishes.
I suggest James Lindsay as an expert on this topic. Would be an excellent interview.
19th, 9 April 2024
The title of the book, “when race trumps merit”, tells all. That’s what is going on in this country, and it’s a crime against humanity.
That title could on any book since codecs were started, and the scrolls that preceded them. It's not a new thing, it's a pervasive thing. Like war and murder and love and lust, we can't seem to shake it.
You must divide classes into low medium high IQ's.
Aristocracy v. Meritocracy is as old as time. You can be born great, you can achieve greatness or you can have it thrust on you. A stable tension between the two is desirable. In other words - you need both - for society to advance forwards whilst at the same time not losing its historical moorings. The Obamas and Winfreys of the world may be the new Black Aristocracy - but they will need meritocratic persons to keep them in power - make no mistake - white/asian engineers fixing things and white soldiers dying for the USA. It is a blend of earned privilege and unearned privilege - I think Heather MacDonald misses the duality thing and drones on and on about meritocracy all the time. To say there is no place for inherited privilege is a cardinal error.
Dismantling meritocracy is hypocritically insincere as it will put its supposed beneficiaries at a great disadvantage in the real world. Which individuals will put themselves at risk and choose to employ their professional services?
Black on black crime is increasing and we have to increase police presence, parent and community awareness to resolve it.
Imagine being in a group that is regularly told you are both worthless and blameless at the same time. For nearly all blacks in English speaking countries, they don't imagine it, they live it, and it's played havoc on their minds and actions for centuries.
Fortunately we are not [NEGRO, BLACK, COLORED, NOR AFRICAN AMERICAN] so this video has nothing to do with us. We are the ancient original indigenous Moors here on our own land, America. We have been here since time immemorial and we will always be here. Peace.
Some people have a 4th grade brain, max. So make them good 4th grade readers.........and math.
It’s easier to accuse college professors of racism than fix the atrociously weak public school system. That requires taking on the teacher’s unions
Teacher's unions are voted in and kept alive by the teachers. Not blaming the voters is very popular and negates what a democracy of the people by the people is.
I would disagree regarding naming Asia family appreciate education, it changes dramatically too or they are very egoistic in their selection what brings money first from subjects and intelligence is left behind
It's just Heather's opinion. Because without debate against respected intellectuals this is just white grievance.
@jakelong6860 Wow, that's a spiteful comment. White grievance? 'Debate'?. Statistics is a pretty powerful tool. Please name one thing that this new 'regime' has created for the benefit for all of society. All I see is blacks given the leg up at the expense of all else, and they are still not up to par. Instead these DEI leaders are driving all to the ground.
farmers pick cows by their color, people are not cows
To observe a colour, the object being observed has to absorb all the colours of the spectrum of light. The colour that one sees is the colour that is repelled by that object . Luckily, black and white are not colors but shades. Otherwise, the object being observed would be defined by the very thing it rejects. 🤫People are not cows, we are sheep.🤫
How can someone be allowed to tell the truth, present facts and go against DEI? Shouldn't there be some way to censor this?
So, so many things that she KNOWS are true but she’s STILL unwilling to say them.
IQ gap. ( she is not allowed to say it, ever )
Based.
My son loves Thomas Sowell's books. But I'm sure if black America actually knew what he writes, he'd be described like Larry Elder, the "black face of white supremacy."
Thomas Sowell is an absolute treasure
It amazes me that in today's world we STILL group people by race. We've learned nothing!
The people pushing dei do not value the underprivileged best interest. They are striving for their own best interest.
This was a good discussion! although a bit alarmist. Unfortunately, victim narratives have always been preferred by "victims" whether they be blacks on the lower economic rung blaming whites for their condition or uneducated Trump supporters in the Mid-West blaming China and globalists for theirs (as opposed to their lack of education). The problem (IMO) is when middle, upper-class, and even rich blacks (or even whites) pay lip service to these narratives out of sympathy for the least of "our people."
One critique however, the comparison of cops-killing-blacks versus blacks-killing-cops as comparable probabilities is a misunderstanding of statistics. True, IF a cop is killed by a felon, there is a high likelihood that the felon is black, but the statement starts with "IF" and that changes the ability to compare. In the last 12 months more than 1,100 people have been killed by law enforcement, but only 60 law enforcement officers are killed by felons each year. So assuming mutually exclusive deadly interactions (i.e., either the cop dies or the felon dies, but not both) that's 1160 deadly interactions, suggesting the likelihood of the felon being killed by a cop is 0.95, and only a 0.05 likelihood that the cop is killed by the felon. Thus, the "IF" in this instance occurs at a much lower probability (0.05) by comparison (0.95). Her point that it is "much less safe to be a cop" does not account for the fact that cops have been wining 9.5 out of 10 deadly encounters each year. Given these odds any reasonable person would rather be a cop, implying that it is ALWAYS SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER to be the cop in a deadly encounter, regardless of the race of the felon.
I need to write an article about this because Heather Mac Donald isn't the first to make this error.
Otherwise, great discussion.
Thrill of destruction is a black power entity
All that terrible oppression Heather suffered at the hands of those notorious oppressors George Eliot & Frederic Chopin: it's amazing she ever learned to read & write! Brave & Wonderful Lady!
We are failing black children and passing it off as "equity"
In order to be with classical music you need also certain level of intelligence. And yes you have forgotten about quality of work in this social fight for getting better place called racism.
MERITOCRACY IS CRUCIAL FOR PROGRESS !
I don’t agree with her premise. There are very bright people in every ethnic group. People today can choose what they want to specialize in. This was not the case even for women generations ago. She seems to forget that!
You either didn't watch the whole video or you didn't comprehend the content.
@@ThisHandleIsNotAvailable. I understood it very well. I have seen her interview before. I know when someone talks like Satan! She talks like Satan!
Whyyyyy - communism
You are missing one point. We have to go back to where the attitude of learning and functioning in society stems from because that's what creates behavior from birth. Parenting! Children learn morality, ambition, reasoning, acceptance, diversity, etc. from the beginning. As the lady says "It's the air we breathe." And stop making slavery a fundamental instruction. It should be an elective. So it begins with how we teach a child at home and in school.
Teach a child to be a victim and the child, 90% of the time, will act like a victim as an adult.
Exactly. It's self-perpetuated generational victimhood that starts at home. If you teach a child "generational trauma" for evils that no longer are occurring, those children will operate as if those evils are still occurring.
Parents raising psuedo-victims are perpetuating failure.
It all circles back to personal responsibility.
How about we add back in the idea that slavery was never, and shows no signs of ever becoming exclusive to one race, neither in the buying or the selling. For all those who say they detest slavery, then they better stop paying for it with chocolate consumption, Nike wear, and Apple computers. All known to richly use slaves in the here and now.
Laban….. he was the white guy. Give him a break.
Dr. McDonald the why is Cultural Marxism!
Sure, merit is being challenged by the diversity zeitgeist, but in the past it was challenged by rich white kids who could buy their way into anything (and still do). Tit for tat, be honest in your historical assessments.
Tit-for-tat is for children.
In the now, giving any race privilege is illegal under the law as it should be.
God guns and gays. Whencare you putting ken Copeland on your staff.
Stale talking points with no relevance to the topic.
Feeble diversion at best.
Please keep your far-right BS to yourself, thanks.
Defend your position intelligently.
@@vincehammons What position?
Not wanting to see far-right propaganda ads for this channel when I'm watching Binging with Babish?
@@thanoswasright999
You click on it and then blame someone else for your deciding to click on it.
Your victimhood is impressive.
Will you stub your toe and blame the sky?