"Disparate Impact"

Fred on Everything writes about disparate impact. It's just good social policy.

I asked somebody that understood social policy what happened when you let people that was slow in the head into a high-powered high school. He said, well, you had to make it easier. I asked him, but didn’t that mean it wasn’t a high-powered high school anymore? He said yeah, but you didn’t want to have disparate impacts. It wasn’t good social policy.

He said it didn’t matter because when they got out of high school they could go to colleges that didn’t teach much either. That didn’t matter because when they went to get a job, social policy was to hire them no matter if they could do the job. There was a law made by the feddle gummint that said you had to hire them, so they wouldn’t starve.

But I figured common sense ain’t all that important, and what we need is more social policy. I mean, what do we really want with high-powered schools? Sure, you might look at how smart the Asians, Chinese and such, are here. And you might think maybe we ought to worry about how we match up to China, which has a lot more Chinese than we do. But China only has a billion or so, and anyway they’re on the other side of the world, and don’t affect us. What we gotta worry about is disparate impacts.

Read more here: http://www.fredoneverything.net/AsiaSchools.shtml

Hat tip The Atheist Conservative