Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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    Let’s say you have two infinitely large pitchers, and an infinite amount of water to pour into them.

    Every day, you pour some water into the pitchers: one gallon into the left pitcher, and one ounce into the right pitcher. After doing this every day for over a hundred years, there’s quite a discrepancy in the amount of water in these pitchers.

    Then, one day, you decide you’re no longer going to pour different amounts. From now on, you’ll pour one gallon into each pitcher every day. Exactly equal and perfectly fair, right?

    Except, if your goal is to get the same amount of water into each pitcher, you’re never going to accomplish that this way. And then someone points out that the right pitcher is still a hundred years behind the left pitcher, and you reply with “well what do you want me to do about it? I’m pouring the same amount into both now.”

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        1 year ago

        This is just going to be a fundamental disagreement here bud. What you call racism, many people call justifiable restitution.

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          Which then feeds the targeted groups claim of racial discrimination, continuing the cycle.

          That these feel good “solutions” work for you is a large part of why the problem still exists.

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            to call it a cycle is wildly disingenuous. on the one hand, black people were enslaved, separated from their familes, prevented from building wealth, murdered, and then enslaved again through targeted laws. but for black people to get preferential admission to college (and still be underrepresented), that’s comparable to doing all of the above to white people?