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By changing the way schools are funded, and helping poor students. No racial discrimination necessary.

• rtkwe 8y ago
  My point was principally about the issues with 'equality of opportunity' in the US because of the massive inequality already present. On your note though yes with unlimited money we could do that, given limited budget though targeting the assistance to those most affected makes sense. Also a program like that also does little to nothing for people who aren't very young when it's started. Also ultimately that's an equality of outcome style solution because it's giving additional resources to some. (this is more about things like the Harvard affirmative action program) I think there's also a meaningful distinction to draw between inclusive discrimination like affirmative action and exclusive discrimination of groups. I know it's an extremely tough line to define at a government level but they feel like very distinct categories of activities.
  • tomp 8y ago
    > meaningful distinction to draw between inclusive discrimination like affirmative action and exclusive discrimination of groups. The only distinction I see is in the rethorical spin that people make. A preferential treatment of a set of people is exactly equal to a discriminatory treatment of the complement of that set of people (e.g. positive discrimination of black people equals negative discrimination of non-black people).