| >Most of us on this site have been specifically trained on strategies for test-taking, I struggle to imagine why you would believe this to be the case. (I say this as someone who wrote, and did quite well in, several high school math competitions without making any particular effort to prepare for them.) >giving us an unfair advantage that we false attribute to intelligence. I struggle to imagine why this would be considered unfair, or not an actual sign of intelligence (assuming that the training worked). I will refrain from providing the bulk of my rebuttal to Kendi, except to note: > And because we’re talking about featureless, objective numbers, no one would ever think that racism could have played a role. ... Yes, that is exactly why racism could not possibly have played a role. The kind of "disparate impact" that Kendi seems to be alluding to here, is simply not compatible with the lay understanding of the concept of "racism", but only with a specialized academic one; but the potential for moral outrage attaches to the lay definition. The conflation that Kendi attempts is a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy . |