Should the best person for a job get it regardless of gender or race? The New York Philharmonic thought so. It was one of many US orchestras that adopted “blind auditions” in the 1970s to eliminate discrimination in selecting musicians. A candidate would play for judges from behind a screen, all personally identifying information redacted …
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“Racial Battle Fatigue”
That’s IT! I have “racial battle fatigue.” Just not in the way that Professor Monnica (sic) Williams of the University of Ottawa means it. I am fatigued by people who have never met me calling me a racist because I am white. I am fatigued by media that unfailingly and fawningly spreads that sort of …
