Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by cma on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:54PM
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> if you insist on punishing people of the present for the sins of the past.
I think Germany's reparations for the Holocaust make sense, for instance.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by dcow on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:59PM
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Did German jews get a tax break? Or was the burden carried by all?
Generally, I think the nuanced take is that nobody is saying they don't want to help right past wrongs if the effects are still present today. They’re saying that doing so on an artificial boundary of a protected class is toxic and backwards and does not positively contribute to the solution.
What if we just invested more in poor and disparaged communities and added a 10% federal poor and disparaged communities tax. I don't see anything rhetorically sour about that (the number isn't the point). A burden shared by all to work towards a better world given to those communities with clear needs…
Or you could realize that civil society is impossible if you insist on punishing people of the present for the sins of the past.