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>>15965409
It depends what it takes to do that. The problem with the current 'movement' is that it is seeking the abolition of any sorts of performance standards for anything, in favour of racial quotas. That's probably the death of a society, because you are trading the future (the promotion of merit and competence) for present political concerns (racial patronage). You will never reach the stars with that approach. Your society will not 'advance' in the broad technological sense when its primary schools are steadily destroyed because it is 'racist' to expel troublemakers or to sort students by test scores/achievement. Seattle Public Schools is trying to abolish its own 'gifted' programs due to racial disparities in enrollment. New York City wants to turn its top high schools (Stuyvesant, etc.) into quota-based admissions systems rather than test-based. The whole 'prison abolition' movement is based on the desire to drag the rest of society into the gutter by destroying public safety and security.

You don't build the future by pouring all of your present-day resources into your weakest and lowest-performing people. You build it by amplifying your strengths and by promoting your geniuses. That may sound harsh, but it's also probably why China will pull ahead of the US in the longer-term. They don't have the kind of manias and illusions suffered by the modern US.