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Any other examples of discrimination are also bad. How is this hard dude.

• zomglings 5y ago
  I have worked in academia as a minority. To do so is to face constant exposure to discrimination on almost every front. Honestly, I believe the entire concept of higher education needs a radical change and that projects like Khan Academy will lead the way. Within the context of academia, though, I don't have any particular problem with small changes applied at a national level to try and address the systemic discrimination that the majority of people in the system are blind to.
  • cdot2 5y ago
    I dont think discrimination solves discrimination
    • zomglings 5y ago
      What do you think solves discrimination?
      • inglor_cz 5y ago
        Does the OP need to have such answers ready? If someone observes that healing crystals and prayers do not cure cancer, should they be required to provide a perfect cure for cancer before the healing crystal and prayer practice is discontinued? I happen to agree with the OP. Discrimination to solve discrimination is rather similar to "war to end all wars". And as for your question, I don't think that wars, discrimination etc. can be ultimately solved; they aren't mathematical tasks but results of innate human flaws, so fundamentally unsolvable unless you redesign humans, which has always been a failure. But they or their consequences can be mitigated, much like we managed to mitigate many other human flaws. I would rather ask the opposite side for some reasons why they think that an end of discrimination will be achieved by lifting the categories of race or gender to a legally critical concept.