Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms

Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by 50656E6973 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:13PM (#18983667)

>our opportunities are directly tied to the outcomes of the generation before us

They are related, but "directly tied to" seems hyperbolic and deterministic.

Frederick Douglass is an obvious exceptional example of a human being transcending the outcomes of previous generations.

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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by rtkwe on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:34PM (#18983878)

Sure he did great doesn't change the fact that individual examples like Frederick Douglass don't negate that fact that intergenerational incomes are pretty inelastic in America. It's a statistical problem across all slices of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...

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