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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by simonsarris on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:39AM (#16231509)
> Race correlates strongly with socioeconomic background.

Yeah all he's saying is that socioeconomic background correlates even more strongly with socioeconomic background. And keeping it in economic terms has the additional plus of keeping the correlation consistent as times change.

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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by woodruffw on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:46PM (#16241773)
Sorry for the late response.

> Yeah all he's saying is that socioeconomic background correlates even more strongly with socioeconomic background.

This is a reasonable observation, but the ought that's implicit in it is not. Heart disease correlates more strongly with death than lung cancer; does that mean it's wrong in some sense to donate to lung cancer research over heart disease?

To make my opinion more material: individuals have the right to make independent decisions within a broad moral framework. It's not wrong for individuals to personalize the good they do (in this case, in the form of racial justice) so long as what they're doing really is good.

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