The Education Department announced it is doing away with the use of disparate impact analysis. Disparate impact allegedly shows that people who don’t have equal outcomes among racial groups are the victims of discrimination.
Disparate impact is a product of Marxist ideology. It’s antithetical to Americanism.
The illogic of disparate impact escaped the proponents. It caused discrimination against achievers simply because they weren’t minorities.
They were missing the link between the assumption and the result.
The Education Department on Thursday killed decades-old rules that have allowed statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination, the most recent move by the Trump administration to overhaul the government’s enforcement of civil rights law.
The move follows years of conservative complaints about “disparate impact analysis,” which incorporates use of data to show discrimination.
Supporters say that discrimination is not always explicit and that data analysis is needed to uncover it. Conservatives say that proving discrimination should require proof that someone intended to treat people differently and argue that when people are being judged by data, they feel pressure to make decisions based on racial quotas.
The only thing you can prove with disparate analysis is that one group is doing better than another.
Supporters of disparate impact analysis say it is a critical tool because finding “smoking gun” evidence to prove someone intended to discriminate is difficult. And even if the intent wasn’t to discriminate, advocates say institutions should be held accountable for discriminatory effects.
All the variables in people’s success or failure were ignored.
If you can’t directly prove discrimination, you can’t prove discrimination. Now, we have to get it out of the courts.
