Every single step of the auditions is totally blind. They entirely won on merit.
Of all the absurdities of the clown world decade (and counting!), for me the wildest is how much of the left has just explicitly abandoned any belief that meritocracy is good. Not disagreement on whether a meritocracy exists or doesn’t in a given context, which can be a fair argument, but outright rejection of the idea that a meritocracy is even desirable or worth fighting for. A blind audition process is the perfect method for assuring there’s no bias in selection. But then they WANT bias in selection when an unbiased process doesn’t give them the results they want?
Of all the absurdities of the clown world decade (and counting!), for me the wildest is how much of the left has just explicitly abandoned any belief that meritocracy is good. Not disagreement on whether a meritocracy exists or doesn’t in a given context, which can be a fair argument, but outright rejection of the idea that a meritocracy is even desirable or worth fighting for. A blind audition process is the perfect method for assuring there’s no bias in selection. But then they WANT bias in selection when an unbiased process doesn’t give them the results they want?