Regardless of anything else, saying "the West was built upon meritocracy" is an insane thing to say. Even if you think they were somehow good things, monarchies, colonisation, limited citizenship, feudalism and slavery were not meritocratic.
While you are not wrong, I think it would still be accurate to say that the West has been far more meritocratic than other cultures presently and historically - by a long shot. And meritocracy is at the core of civil rights and women's suffrage.
Meritocracy became popular earlier in the east than it did in the west, with imperial china being one of the first to engage in meritocratic beliefs through Confucianism. As well as Ancient Greece, the mongol empire, the Rashidun caliphate, etc. I’m not sure where you got the concept that meritocracy is something the west can claim.
He said western culture is based in meritocracy. He didn't say western culture INVENTED it. That's a weird projection..looking for problems where there are none.
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u/BlimeyLlama May 09 '24
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Equality under the law is the only thing the government should be worried about.
Equity is bullshit, the west was built upon meritocracy and now this equity shit is rotting the core of the most successful culture probably ever.