Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
by fallingknife on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:40PM
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This is the real issue that no one wants to address.
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
by notSupplied on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:09PM
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Yeah I’m with you here.
Would it be reasonable to say that hard work should be rewarded? Well…ones propensity for hard work, it turns out, is highly heritable. Either from your genes or from your upbringing. You didn’t choose your parents, nor did you choose your upbringing. So your propensity for hard work is really just unearned privilege.
Same line of reasoning can be applied with future orientation, or smarts. People don’t deserve the fruits of their intellect, because they didn’t do anything to earn it.
I’m not sure if there is a name for this kind of absurdity, but “Achievement Fatalism” is a nice fit.
Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
by someguydave on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:15AM
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I can sympathize with people who are sad about the inequalities of biology.
The trouble is that the best hope for “a rising tide that lifts all boats” is for the top crust of the IQ of humanity to be applied toward fixing real problems.
Distracting smart people with stupid fake victim status games literally
makes the rest of humanity poorer.
Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
by shadowgovt on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:13PM
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The smartest people I know simply don't find them distracting. They also don't consider them stupid or fake; they have better things to do than argue whether people deserve equal treatment with dignity and mostly do their best to just treat people with equal dignity.