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Re:SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund by baddox on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:35AM (#23413738)
> Yeah, sure, a black guy from a rich family that attended MIT will have a harder time finding funding than his white or asian friends from the same background ... but he'll have a much easier time than some white kid from a broken home.

Even if your claims are supported by evidence, why is it a bad thing to want to correct that disparity? The fact that there also exist other disparities in the world doesn’t seem like a good reason to oppose correcting one particular disparity.

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Re:SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund by luckylion on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:02AM (#23414316)
> Even if your claims are supported by evidence, why is it a bad thing to want to correct that disparity?

It's not "bad" as in "omg don't do that", it's just focusing on a less significant problem instead of the large problem, which it conveniently shifts focus from.

I don't think that it's intentional, but I'm absolutely sure that addressing the lacking social mobility in the US would benefit minorities much more than racism, because they are much, much more affected by it.

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