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Re:Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local lis... by lucaspm98 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:45PM (#24005447)
Affirmative action as currently implemented based primarily on race is just as bad, shifting the inequality of opportunity at best. White people of low socioeconomic status are disadvantaged while people of color with high socioeconomic status unfairly benefit. The idea of affirmative action and “anti-racist” policies are fundamentally fine, but it’s almost completely socially unacceptable to disagree with the popular strategies.
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Re:Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local lis... by raxxorrax on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:21AM (#24007592)
Plus it can pit those low income groups against each other in favor of self-degrading white people in higher academia that do indeed seem to be there without too much merit.
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Re:Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local lis... by sleepinseattle on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:47PM (#24005459)
Racial inequity is socially unacceptable. That’s the whole damn point.
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Re:Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local lis... by ironmagma on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:15AM (#24005579)
The question is how you fix it though, and not all answers to that question are acceptable either.
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