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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by chmod600 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:20AM (#30524050)
The basic idea is that there are lots of positive feedback loops, so initial conditions matter, and people can end up in a spiral up or down. The theory goes that adjusting things along the way can correct for those positive feedback loops.

There are two big problems though:

One is that it tries to correct by using race as a proxy. Middle class black americans and African immigrants get the advantages, poor asians get left out no matter how hard they work, and poor black americans get forgotten.

The second mistake is assuming that the tweaks are effective and don't have unintended consequences.

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by yibg on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:11AM (#30524323)
The rationale also seems strange to me. If we're talking in economic terms, Chinese Americans (taking one subgroup) didn't start out wealthy but rather historically were a poor, marginalized group (etc Chinese exclusion act). So at least in that case initial conditions didn't seem to matter.
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by colordrops on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:39PM (#30530114)
Initial conditions don't just include amount of wealth and oppression, but also culture. This is a much more sensitive subject though that most aren't willing to touch publicly.
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