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It's absolutely fine to give extra advantages to people with low incomes. That's economic progressivism. It's wrong to give extra advantages based on genetics,
by srssays 10y ago
It's absolutely fine to give extra advantages to people with low incomes. That's economic progressivism.
It's wrong to give extra advantages based on genetics, essentially saying that some people "genetically poor" or "genetically rich", which is what Affirmative Action does.
- laurencerowe 10y agoThere are clearly multiple axes of inequality in our society beyond the economic, including race and sex. A fair and equal admissions policy should account for all of those.
- FT_intern 10y agoAffirmative action is quantifiable and blatant racism/sexism. > multiple axes of inequality in our society beyond the economic, including race and sex is not clear or quantified at all. Since affirmative action is provably bad because it is literal sexism/racism, the supposed inequality that AA offputs must be proven and quantified
- tomlock 10y agoThat's exactly why affirmative action exists: It's wrong to give extra advantages based on genetics. Therefore, giving an extra advantage to someone who is not given those other extra advantages, evens the score.
- srssays 10y agoAffirmative action will prefer a middle-income black person to a low-income white person. It 'evens the score' for some poor people, but not for others.
- tomlock 10y agoThere are plenty of systems that benefit some areas of society and not others. It sounds from your comment that you're all for an even distribution of rewards across society. Is that a fair characterization? Why is this case particularly egregious to you compared to other inequalities?
- FT_intern 10y agoRace is being used as a proxy for income. Why not just use income? There won't be glaring unfairness in the system where an upper middle class black kid gets preference over the child of poor, uneducated Fujian immigrants who can barely speak English
- tomlock 10y agoIf there's an imbalance along racial lines, any reversal to that trend is better than nothing. The ideal world is one where there's no glaring unfairness, but maybe we can address at least some of that unfairness. I'm of the opinion that university should be free.