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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Liebsohn: Trump Moves to Restore True Civil Rights
Description: President Donald Trump just issued an executive order eliminating the use of “disparate impact” analysis in the use of racial and gender-oriented hiring and benefits. In so doing, he has moved us from an ethos of numerical equity to moral equality. As Heather Mac Donald put it: Disparate Impact “has been used to invalidate literacy and numeracy standards for police officers and firemen, cognitive skills and basic knowledge tests for teachers, the use of SATs in college admissions, the use of grades for medical licensing exams….It has been used to eliminate prosecution for a large range of crimes…...