Almost Overnight, Standards of Color-Blind Merit Tumble Across American Society | RealClearInvestigations

On just his sixth day in office, President Biden signaled that the nation s long held principle of equality for all had come to an end, signing an executive order declaring that racial equity is not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government — equity referring to the idea that merely treating everybody the same is not enough, and that an equal outcome for all people has to be the goal.

Over the last few months, many Ivy League and flagship state universities have moved away from a seemingly neutral measure long used to assess applicants standardized test scores to give minorities a better shot at admissions.

In May, Hewlett-Packard, the technology company with 50,000 employees worldwide, decreed that by 2030 half of its leadership positions and more than 30% of its technicians and engineers have to be women and that the number of minorities should meet or exceed their representation in the tech industry workforce. 

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I suppose this will make the transition to AI all that more urgent.