Whether or not you are willing to believe the truth, you know deep inside it is true because it's simply the way of nature, survival of the fittest. Weakness is always going to be taken advantage of, as well as brushed aside especially if your survival is at stake. We constantly make daily decisions based on our needs to survive. Which toothpaste you choose is a direct result of what you think will suit you best. Remove the price factor and you will never pick something that you know has inferior ingredients over another choice that clearly does not. Same is true for anything we have to make choices over to ensure our well being. You see it every day in the animal kingdom, if you do not have the physical and mental equivales as those around you, you will eventually become a hyena late night snack.
As humans, whoever you choose as a higher power has given you a soul, a free will to make choices. Hopefully, some civility and a conscious to make these choices and if you decide that an inferior product or service is not good but still want it, hey, more power to you. But as long as these choices are not harming anyone else, and you know that there are some that add more value and assurance that will provide a safer and more pleasing experience, that is what you are going to pick.
Now comes a challenge in life that requires enormous decisions. You need a heart transplant, and there are 10 surgeons to decide from. You are privy to every one of their educations, experiences and backgrounds. Nine of them are of mixed race and all have very similar credentials but one does not have that same level but was given many advantages others did not have to graduate and be promoted solely based on their gender, race, or even political affiliations. You should have that option as your choice, if you want to risk it for your ideology, then good for you. It only affects you. Nobody else is on that operating table.
But when you are walking onto an airplane, with a pilot who has 200 passenger's lives in their hands, there is no question I want the pilot with the highest qualifications available, not the one who got there because they were provided shortcuts. I could care less what race they are, if they choose to identify as a poodle on Friday nights, cool, as long as I know that they have my, and my family's life in their hands because they were the superior choice when it came to a merit based testing scenario. That is fairness and in keeping with what your passengers would want. That person who did not make the level of pilot who knows they may have worked harder or studied more is the real victim even before a disaster could take place.
There is no common sense involved with DEI/Affirmative Action. Only reverse discrimination and unnecessary risks that most of us would never take if we knew what was happening. And that is the thing, we usually never know how that person servicing our needs got there under DEI practices, If we knew it was merit based, there is no question we are getting the highest level of service.
That is not racist. Promoting those who simply have a different color of skin, or choice of gender definitely is. There was a time, and I know there are still instances where someone's skin was the sole reason they were not promoted right? Well how is this any different? We have made major strides in this country concerning civil rights over the years, but the left wants to erase all that and use the very same racism they pretend to be against. It took me years to see internal needs to change my way of thinking about others who are different and it came from experience and first hand knowledge to see where I was wrong. Always looking for ways to improve.
Then it seemed to all change and I keep hearing how I am a Nazi, a Fascist and every other stupid label one can think of when ignorance is your advisory. Why? Because I am 100% committed to equal rights. Equality, NOT equity. That is what all good Americans strived towards for so many decades, even knowing we may never really, totally get there, but it was the driving force of what this country's existence was about and we were all growing as people who can live together.
You will NEVER force Americans to do what they do not want to do as a whole. Especially when we know it is wrong.
It's the reason DEI and Affirmative Action both failed, and Charlie Kirk just explained it better than I ever could.