"Disparate Impact" with Heather Mac Donald

This podcast episode explores the controversial idea of disparate impact, which assumes that any employment requirement that one racial group meets far more often than another is evidence of racial discrimination. Despite a lack of evidence to support this assumption, the ideology of disparate impact has become a significant force in civil rights law and has had negative consequences for American society. Critics argue that it is bad for employees, reduces the value of hiring black or other minority workers, incentivizes employers to locate their businesses away from minority populations, and is an invincible fallacy. Disparate impact theory is having a corrosive effect on education, law enforcement, medicine, and classical music.