>Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for disadvantaged groups in higher education, corporations, govern

>Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for disadvantaged groups in higher education, corporations, government, and elsewhere continue to generate backlash. So lets flush this out. There's no women in tech is a common concern. The shoot from the hip is that men are discriminatory or harassing in the workplace. But that doesn't stand up to there being no women doing tech in college. The problem occurs before college. So lets say we want equality. What do we do? We don't go to high school and get women into tech? wtf? That isn't what we do. Instead we offer free college tuition if you're female. We outright are discriminating against men. What will that do? If you're a man, the way to look at this correctly is that tuition is covered unless you're a man. You are being punished for being male. What's the consequences? It's going to make those men angry they are being punished. While women get a free ride. Then men/women get out of college, you are all a bunch of newbs and you apply for a job but the woman gets it solely because she's a woman. You are being punished for being male. What do you think is happening? You aren't fixing the problem of equality. You're making the problem worse, you're going to have off the cuff remarks that any woman in a tech field is only there because she's female. Did she earn that position? Maybe she deserves to be there but giving women a free ride is going to create prejudice against them. >"We found that people think of the world in zero-sum terms, so that a gain for one group must necessarily be a loss for another," says study co-author Derek Brown, a Berkeley Haas doctoral student. "This seems to be a cognitive mistake that everyone is susceptible to, not just a vociferous minority that has antipathy toward any certain group." Where in my above illustration is it zero-sum? This is worse than zero-sum. You are producing new prejudice, a huge negative. You are still discriminating against identity, a huge negative. Your actions are making everything worse, of course we are going to oppose stupidity.