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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by austin-cheney on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:19PM (#36529342)
> Poverty alleviation can be done just with money, but social systemic unfair treatment cannot be undone with money.

That sounds backwards on both points. Poverty impacts how people perceive and interact with the world from building relationships to the use and conservation of assets. For example people in poverty are less likely to save for the future because institutions necessary to safely preserve assets into the future are distant therefore resulting in behaviors motivated towards immediate consumption. That is not something fixed by just throwing money at it.

At the same time social systemic unfair treatment can be fixed with money as it allows an otherwise well positioned person to alter their relationship with the constraints imposing such unfair conditions.

> So, if a poor white family is given a lot of money and they move into a richer neighbourhood, they would enjoy a social capital the same amount of money cannot buy for a black family.

That imposes a bunch of unstated assumptions that may or may not apply. Most all my neighbors are black families of different economic statuses who moved into a predominately white neighborhood and did just fine regarding social capital.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by vacuity on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:50PM (#36529951)
I agree with what you said about poverty, and I feel as if the same is true of systemic unfairness. Perhaps the African-American (I do not like the term black, but that's for another discussion) neighbors you have really are treated very similarly as the rest, but stereotypes are powerful. I imagine most African-American people can't get others to treat them equally, even if the others truly do believe that they aren't racist. I think the horror around "unconscious racism" or whatever is overblown, though.