{"id":768,"date":"2009-04-27T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2009-04-27T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:22:20","slug":"twisted_fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/24\/AR2009042402305.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;ran an op-ed piece by George Will regarding the&nbsp;current Supreme Court case involving the city of New Haven, Connecticut, and firefighter exams given in 2003.&nbsp; The exams were given to 118 candidates, 27 of them black.&nbsp; There were 15 available promotions, and none of the black candidates had scores high enough to qualify for these promotions.&nbsp; Because no black candidates qualified, no one was promoted.&nbsp; The case is now before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting the top 15 candidates, regardless of their race, would not have been discrimination&#8211;it would have been giving the job to the most qualified applicant.&nbsp; Giving the job to someone less qualified or denying anyone the job because the test did not produce the results wanted is discrimination and leads to a lower quality of work in general.&nbsp; Anyone who runs a business will tell you that hiring the most qualified people allows his business to run more efficiently and more profitably.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Admittedly the city of New Haven is not a business, but wouldn&#8217;t we all be better off if our government ran more effeciently and more fiscally responsibly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Post&nbsp;ran an op-ed piece by George Will regarding the&nbsp;current Supreme Court case involving the city of New Haven, Connecticut, and firefighter exams given in 2003.&nbsp; The exams were given to 118 candidates, 27 of them black.&nbsp; There were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}