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I’m sure it did help them, just like systemic racism prior to affirmative action helped white kids. When there’s a limited number of spots available, every person that is “helped” in either situation results in someone else who didn’t get in because they were the wrong color, and that’s just plain wrong.
We don’t need to fight racism with more racism - that just increases the number of victims of injustice.
It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
I know, but I still believe it’s worth striving for.
Maybe something that targets socioeconomic status instead of race, targeted scholarships, blind reviews of applicants, etc. Whatever is done, the solution to racism can’t be “let’s try to be racist back in an equivalent measure to balance it out.”
No, that’s not fine either and should also be outlawed due to a history of systemic racism giving some people an advantage over others.
It should be 100% merit based, plain and simple. It’s the only fair way.
Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.
Maybe it’s because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of “100% merit based” reality.
Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn’t racist AF.
I’m sure it did help them, just like systemic racism prior to affirmative action helped white kids. When there’s a limited number of spots available, every person that is “helped” in either situation results in someone else who didn’t get in because they were the wrong color, and that’s just plain wrong.
We don’t need to fight racism with more racism - that just increases the number of victims of injustice.
Our entire society is plain wrong, doing things to address those injustices is good actually.
P.s you can’t be “racist” against white people, in a white supremacists nation.
You can in Hawaii.
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It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?
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Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.
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That’s not how it’s going to play out in reality, unfortunately. I truly wish it were.
I know, but I still believe it’s worth striving for.
Maybe something that targets socioeconomic status instead of race, targeted scholarships, blind reviews of applicants, etc. Whatever is done, the solution to racism can’t be “let’s try to be racist back in an equivalent measure to balance it out.”
Indeed. Such programs exist, and we need more of them.