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> Do we want to live in a world where you have less opportunity because of characteristics you were born with? As a white man who grew up with a single mother,
by castlecrasher2 4y ago
> Do we want to live in a world where you have less opportunity because of characteristics you were born with?
As a white man who grew up with a single mother, this is exactly what affirmative action appears to be. Why? Because I already had a rough start, and saw opportunities broadcast and given out to others that I didn't qualify for simply because I wasn't non-white.
I understand the on-paper intents and purposes perfectly well, but the reality is these programs are racist to the core.
- ryeguy_24 4y agoI get your point and maybe the solution to fixing historic oppression against race is hard to get perfect. And your financial problem or lack of opportunity sucks but but isn’t it a little silly to say that a program is racist when it’s trying to help a certain race who was oppressed because of their skin color. If we stole 100 dollars from all black people and then 20 years later decided to give black people their money back, you’d say that repayment program is racist against non-blacks?
- crackercrews 4y agoWhat do you tell an Indian or Lebanese immigrant who arrived 5 years ago and whose taxes are going to be increased to finance this? Also, what if the benefit goes mostly to recent immigrants, not descendants of slaves? This is the case for affirmative action at elite schools: > the majority of them -- perhaps as many as two-thirds -- were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples. [1] 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/top-colleges-take-more-blacks-but-which-ones.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/top-colleges-take-more...