“Striving for Excellence” is now a bad thing . . .

I agree with Geoffrey Miller:

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Ruth Henriquez Lyon

    It looks like almost all the other people leaving comments on that post also agree with Miller. There is only so much people are willing to tolerate. As Winston Churchill once wrote, “This is nonsense up with which I shall not put!”

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    Bill Heath

    This brings to mind Denyce Graves, the foremost mezzo-soprano of the late 20th Century. http://www.denycegraves.com/home.aspx.

    She was born in Washington D.C., and her mother pulled her out of majority black D.C. schools to enter a majority white school in the D.C. suburbs. Her D.C. classmates had bullied her for “acting white” by excelling in school. Hers is a once-in-a-generation talent, the Einstein of Mezzo Sopranos. It is frightening to think that the Denyce Graves of medicine may remained undiscovered because of the diversion, equity and inclusion nonsense. There are critics who prefer Marilyn Horn or Cecelia Bartoli, and I admit my choice is biased against the bel canto and lyric mezzos; I acknowledge that both of them are also once=in-a-generation talents. Perhaps the fellow who will cure all forms of cancer is being bullied right now for “acting white.” To think that Michael Bloomberg could have become President is a nightmare

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