Disparate Impact: The Term You Haven't Heard Of That Rewrote America’s Standards

Companies and taxpayers pay MILLIONS to settle discrimination lawsuits.

Is America really so racist today? No. But we pay anyway. Here's why.

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One example: A police department agreed to pay almost $3M after black applicants performed worse on their hiring test.

“This is ridiculous!” says author Heather MacDonald. “State police wanted to make sure that the state troopers could read at a a very basic level. It was a colorblind neutral test of skills.”

Still, the department agreed to pay because of a legal doctrine called “disparate impact.”

It means that any policy or test in which some races do better than others is a form of illegal discrimination.

"Disparate impact means that an institution ... can want to have as many different races as possible, but if it has a standard that blacks do poorly on, you got to throw out the standard." explains MacDonald.

I like being around people different from me. I seek them out.

But when politicians make diversity the law, ugly things happen.

“You can have meritocracy in an institution, or you can have diversity,” says McDonald. “You cannot have both.”

In this video we cover absurd and costly lawsuits, how colleges evade Trump's DEI demands, and how disparate impact rules create watered-down standards that punish excellence.

“Ban discrimination,” argues MacDonald, “but we do not ban excellence. We do not ban high expectations.”
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