In 1971, the Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power banned IQ tests for jobs on the basis that they were racist.
(Still can't believe that's a real thing that happened 💀).
The precedent not only ruined hiring, making degrees (credentialism) the only way businesses could reliably find qualified candidates, but it also set the stage for "disparate impact," or the idea that minorities could sue if some law or policy disproportionately impacted them, even if that law was meant to be neutral.
Most people don't know that this how our system works, like Addy:
This is why leftists have claimed that the criminal justice system is racist against blacks. It doesn't matter that American blacks actually commit crime at higher rates than other ethnic groups; what matters is that more blacks are being arrested, therefore the law is seen as "inequitable."
If that sounds like commie gobbledygook, it is, but it's been the standard for the last 50 years in America.
That's now changing:
More from the DOJ:
‘For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,' said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. ‘No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.'
Amazing that we went 60 years past the "civil rights" era with unjust discrimination in the other direction and we are only now correcting course.
‘For over 50 years, the prior disparate-impact rule fostered the very thing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited — discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin. But with today's rule,' said Chief of Staff and Supervisory Official for the Office of Legal Policy Nicholas Schilling. ‘The Department reaffirms Congress' commitment to measure all Americans by merit.'
Like I said, we're finally getting what we were supposed to be getting in 1964!!
The Department's new rule reflects the best reading of Title VI, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized for over twenty years. Title VI has and will continue to prohibit intentional discrimination. The Department's new rule ensures that recipients of federal funding will be judged on their actual conduct, not on statistical outcomes or circumstances beyond their control.
There could be legitimate questions for why the DOJ is ending this policy now, given that Americans have recently and successfully claimed disparate impact for affirmative action (Asian and whites disparately impacted by colleges favoring blacks) and migrant work (American workers disparately hurt by allowing H-1Bs from India).
While some may be sad that they couldn't use the unjust rule for their own benefit, the unjust rule is gone, nonetheless.
For the wokies who are upset about this - who was that guy who said he wanted his kids to be judged by their conduct and the content of their character?
Oh yeah.
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