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Oh I misread your original post, sorry about that. So your belief is that affirmative action in college admissions is the defining factor in race inequality, e
by peter422 4y ago
Oh I misread your original post, sorry about that.
So your belief is that affirmative action in college admissions is the defining factor in race inequality, even though the vast majority of the structural disadvantages happen much younger?
Remember that this is the American society that upon integration decided over and over again they'd rather fill public pools with cement than have them shared between white and black children.
You don't believe those same barriers carried over to housing and schools? You just ignore the data and massive, persistent wealth gaps?
- trention 4y agoNo, there are zero barriers "in front" of minorities in the states, only advantages. There is no institutional discrimination against minorities, only against the now-majority, soon-to-be minority.
- peter422 4y agoIf we look at a 1 year old black child, and a 1 year old while child, the average household wealth of the white child is around 10x higher. What did the white child do to deserve this? How much better could they possibly be at drooling and crawling to have so much more wealth available to them? So I guess your belief is that household wealth has no impact on children?
- trention 4y ago>What did the white child do to deserve this? Ah, the fallacy that everything you receive from your ancestors is undeserved. Will we be doing race-based asset appropriation tomorrow, comrade? I think I'm not interested in discussing this with someone holding such a position which I consider completely deluded.
- peter422 4y ago
- quesera 4y ago> the fallacy that everything you receive from your ancestors is undeserved Is there an intelligent argument that some infants are more deserving than others?
- trention 4y agoMore deserving of what? The argument is that wealth/social capital/whatever accumulated by your ancestors rightfully belongs and can be transferred to you.
- peter422 4y agoHypothetically speaking, what if your parents stole that money from somebody else in a provable way? Does it still rightfully belong to you?