Our meritocratic society? Which planet are you from? Here on earth, we have no meritocratic society, but we do have a lot of people who confuse the advantages of their birth + not dropping the ball with pure merit.
80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day. Do you not believe that among those billions of people, there could be many who are just as smart and hardworking as you, but have no access to the physical, social, and cultural capital they need to rise above subsistence living?
If your so-called meritocracy only applies to 10% of the earth's population, it isn't much of one.
It's interesting to note that increasing inequality within the US has been a byproduct of decreasing inequality world wide, as formerly impoverished frontier economies were allowed to compete against the American lower and lower middle working classes. This point always seems to get lost in the discussion.
Anyone who thinks society is actually meritocratic is deluding themselves.
And no one is using racism to fix racism. Only someone who is desperately clinging to that advantage they have for being white would say that.
Because your cure is worse than the disease.
> you don't think any effort should be spent trying to correct something that's broken in the world.
I think racism is bad. I think it's bad in all circumstances because it corrupts our meritocratic society.
Using racism to fix racism is dumb. Because racism is bad in all circumstances.