Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by atlantacrackers on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:04PM
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Seems like Uber is thinks black businesses are not capable of competing in a free market without a handout. Based on your definition, it is explicit racism.
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by mrcorona on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:24PM
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Its a form of economic reparations. When it comes to all the forms of racism blacks have experienced over the past few centuries I find it funny that this is what offends people, "subsidized deliveries".
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by Kaze404 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:06PM
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The reason you think that is because you're assuming the free market is 1) free and 2) treats everyone equally, which is not the case.
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by atlantacrackers on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:10PM
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Treated equally in a food ordering service? Show me where it says “restaurant owned by a black person” in the Uber app allowing people to discriminate when ordering food.
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by Fargren on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:21PM
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Quoting a message from this thread:
> If you are black, you are less likely to get a small business loan, and if so you are likely to get worse rates [1]. They also are encountering more resistance to accessing COVID-19 bailout funds [2]. These are just two examples specific to being a business owner, not to mention the systemic racism they face as individuals.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/16/black-owned.... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/minority-busines....
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by ikeyany on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:19PM
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How do we live in a free market? Corporations get bailed out all the time for poor business decisions.
Re:Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:02PM
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I'm thinking in terms of equity, and it still seems pretty unfair that my local Mexican restaurants are being discriminated against.
I'm very skeptical of this move, its sustainability in the medium term, and I overall really dislike Uber as a business, but equality is NOT the point.
Society is already unequal, you cannot wish it away with a magic wand.
The way to address inequality, is to think in terms of equity:
http://betterbikeshare.org/2019/10/24/equity-vs-equality/
Also, this is obviously not an example of racism. Racism can be defined as:
"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior."
The term that you're looking for is Affirmative action, defined as:
"Affirmative action is a policy in which an individual's color, race, sex, religion or national origin are taken into account to increase opportunities provided to an underrepresented part of society"