Race, Merit, and The Future of Our Republic | Heather Mac Donald
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- 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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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.
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.
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
Heather McDonald is a national treasure.
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Having courage to say the truth is historically speaking not enough. Just ask those that signed the Declaration of Independence.
They signed it, knowing that they would have to fight to ensure it. And were ready/prepared to do so as the ink wet the parchment.
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.
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!
Please keep going on Heather &Larry the West needs you both watching you from Scotland.
Misdiagnosing the causes for an issue is a surefire way of not finding solutions. Thank you for your honesty
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.
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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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.
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.
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 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.
When Heather speaks I listen. Pure common sense and truth. Don’t believe me? Read her books and gain knowledge.
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.
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.
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People will live down to our expectations every day..
It’s always best for the facilitator to be quiet and let the guest shine.
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.
I have always given cops more than they asked, and because of that I have never been in conflict.
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.
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.
Love hearing from Heather
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.
Fantastic! Great respect for you both!
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.
Heather is brilliant!
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)
We are failing black children and passing it off as "equity"
I hundred % agree with the subject being discussed in this discussion
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!
Knowledge produces Home and Hearth, Stability, and Time for clear thought..As opposed to Wandering around and those things that result.
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.
100% fact. Black communities will continue to lag until education is thought of as important as athletics. It will never get better until that happens.
Save this institution and these wonderful fellows
One thing I've noticed is that it's not just the Asians and Jews doing well, but actual Africans coming to the U.S. that out perform the blacks that have been here they're whole life. It's absolutely the culture.
Greetings from Quincy, Massachusetts. My teams have spent a few years studying the ultimate or penultimate results of preferences here. Including in the supermarket.
"I want to value accomplishment." Let the rest of the world hear it.
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.🤫
❤ Heather
DEI is by definition a sacrifice of meritocracy. There is only compromise.
Always love hearing from Heather
Dr. McDonald the why is Cultural Marxism!
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. 😁
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
Some people have a 4th grade brain, max. So make them good 4th grade readers.........and math.
How can someone be allowed to tell the truth, present facts and go against DEI? Shouldn't there be some way to censor this?
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.
At ---> 47:28 ----> continuously "shout it from the rooftops"!
Heather Mac Donald is an extraordinarily valuable gift to our nation. Her salient points hold many of the keys to a desperately needed reformation of our nation and culture. Thank you Dr. Arnn for this amazingly insightful interview! I will be passing it on to others.
She should be a college president … !!
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?
Fascinating
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
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.
First time listening to Heather McDonald. Will be looking for other videos and E-books on line.
So, so many things that she KNOWS are true but she’s STILL unwilling to say them.
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 people pushing dei do not value the underprivileged best interest. They are striving for their own best interest.
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!🍸
Fairly recently in London there was an all POC Orchestra put together, They refused to play any Nationalistic Pieces though
Exceptional interview.
Classical Music …Hillsdale Online Course? 🎻📯🎼
Thank you, welcoming, clarity
Brilliant woman.
The first rule in dog training " First you have to be smarter than the dog " . We need smarter teachers.
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.
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.
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.
I love this!
She is right regarding parental responsibility!
I love her. She is brilliant!
MERITOCRACY IS CRUCIAL FOR PROGRESS !
She’s absolutely brilliant!!
You must divide classes into low medium high IQ's.
Very Good Article, you two.
This is Big, I'm fifty,fifty on your inputs. Remaining human to me is what is important to me.
Thanks again Hillsdale College.
DEI negates the idea that each human possesses their own unique potential.
Our personal unique potentials are given us by God to do with as we choose. It is through both fortune and a life of choice and action that we either completely fulfill our unique potential or fall short.
The Stoics understood this and advised leading a life of virtuous choices and actions. Each of us makes thousands of choices, large and small, every day. Pure Rationalists argue that most of these choices require little to no moral or ethical element. But, all of our choices require a moral component. My choice to satiate my thirst with a drink of water contains a moral element. I MUST assume that my drink of water does more good to Nature and Man than harm. I cannot know this as a fact. My act of drinking is like that of the butterfly effect: there is some harm to be done, but to determine the relative quantity of good versus harm, I must invest a LOT of my time and energy to reason through this matter. Time is a limit we all possess. So, to conserve my time, I must make the unsubstantiated assumption that my choice and act are moral. Thus, every conscious choice I make and my subsequent action (or inaction) trades off a moral good for a moral evil.
The Stoics taught that constructing early habits of making virtuous choices and acts was the best path through life that a man can take. Inevitably,, though, virtuous choices require some element of personal suffering and suffering that other humans and Nature must endure. We learn from both successes and failures as we learn from both pleasure and pain.
This contrasts with the path that the Epicurians taught - to seek pleasure and avoid pain. A state of happiness is the goal, not a series of virtuous choices that yield pain.
Our unique potential can be best fulfilled through a life constructed of habit, the habit of virtuous choices and acts. As all but One human was perfectly Virtuous, all other humans are incapable of choosing and acting virtuously for every choice. But to get better is the goal.
Faith in Jesus Christ allows our reconciliation with God. But, while on this earth, Jesus reminds and commands us to get better. Our sins will be forgiven through the grace of our faith, but meanwhile, on this earth we must Love God and Love Neighbor through our imperfect choices and acts.
A life lived without reflecting on, confessing and atoning for our errors is a life of unfulfilled potential - our personal unique potential given us by the grace of God. Falling prey to the tenets of DEI suggests that we each give up a life of virtuous living towards that unique potential.
I love hillsdale
I ❤ Heather
Ove this woman's mind.. she says something I have been saying for years.. one of the reasons why I left home and had fears of returning..
Good movie:Hidden Figures starting Kevin Costner and Taraji P.Henson!
Thank you
what about our grand kids future???
Thrill of destruction is a black power entity
Genius, courageous, beautiful
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.
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.
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.
That's great stuff.
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.
It amazes me that in today's world we STILL group people by race. We've learned nothing!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Thanks for the necessary reflections about education and politics, so nedeed in our time.
Whyyyyy - communism
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!
Brilliant mind