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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:08PM (#18982976)
I am also interested in equality of opportunity- but how do I measure that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve something? How do I measure the opportunity to consume nutritious food? The opportunity for access to the same healthcare?
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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by yourbandsucks on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:20PM (#18983084)
It goes deeper than that if you go into cultural biases prevalent in poor (regardless of race) communities. Cigarettes, scratch-offs, crappy food.. what counts as opportunity?

Is being raised a certain way tantamount to having 'less opportunity' to make better micro-decisions?

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