The Left Declared Competence a Civil-Rights Violation The left has reached the point where requiring a police officer to read is considered racial discrimination. Maryland State Police used a neutral examination to determine whether applicants possessed the basic skills needed to write reports and perform police work. Black applicants... failed at higher rates. The Biden Justice Department responded by attacking the examination and helping produce a settlement approaching $3 million. The test did not ask anyone’s race. The department did not exclude anyone because of race. Applicants were measured against the same standard. Under disparate-impact ideology, equality itself became the offense because equality failed to manufacture the desired result. This doctrine requires society to abolish every standard that exposes a disparity. Police examinations become discriminatory. Teacher examinations become discriminatory. Academic requirements become discriminatory. Any measurement of competence remains acceptable only until it measures competence. The humiliation imposed on black Americans is difficult to overstate. The same people who call themselves anti-racists have constructed an ideology based on the assumption that black applicants cannot be expected to meet ordinary standards. They then demand that the standards disappear and congratulate themselves for their compassion. A sane civil-rights movement would insist that every child receive the education required to meet high expectations. The modern left protects failing institutions, lowers the expectations and accuses anyone who notices the decline of racism. How are normal people expected to share a functioning civilization with ideologues who believe that the ability to read should become negotiable when hiring police officers? Roads, hospitals, schools, courts and public-safety agencies depend on competence. Reality does not accept an equity exemption. A police report filled with errors does not become accurate because the officer was hired through a socially approved process. Disparate-impact ideology has converted failure into evidence against the test, incompetence into victimhood and standards into contraband. Every bad result produces the same administrative solution... lower the requirement, punish the institution and invoice the taxpayer. The left would rather abolish qualification than admit that anyone failed to qualify. The public will eventually discover the cost while depending on the people they declared competent by eliminating the evidence that they were not.show more

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