This is of a piece with how various forms of discrimination are laundered through neoliberal meritocracies.
Instead of engaging in direct forms of discrimination, you build systems of arcane hurdle-jumping, whose outcomes produce the intended discrimination. That way, you always have a story about how this or that person “just didn’t measure up.”
Instead of engaging in direct forms of discrimination, you build systems of arcane hurdle-jumping, whose outcomes produce the intended discrimination. That way, you always have a story about how this or that person “just didn’t measure up.”