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> For more than 40 years the court had allowed some positive discrimination I’m not a fan of the term “positive discrimination” at all. It tries to hide the fa
by dgs_sgd 4y ago
> For more than 40 years the court had allowed some positive discrimination
I’m not a fan of the term “positive discrimination” at all. It tries to hide the fact that the “positive” effect to one group is necessarily at the expense of another. Whether it’s positive or negative just depends on which group we’re talking about.
- nu11ptr 4y agoAgreed, if you have a finite amount of resources and "positively" favor one group over another, this automatically disfavors another group. When skin color is used for this "positive" favor, we have a term for the impact on the other group: racism. Have we not learned that racism is ALWAYS bad?
- j33zusjuice 4y agoBased on comments I read on here this morning about how some people think it’s ok to be racist because you’re basing your disdain for them on the way other people who look like them behave, no. (To clarify, the comments said, “I dislike people of X color because of the behaviors I’ve observed in people of X color.” And they argued that it wasn’t the same as just hating people based on color, although that’s exactly what it is.)
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- the_gipsy 4y agoWhat do you propose? Just wait until the existing systematic discrimination dissolves any day now? Do you belong to the privileged group?
- Beltalowda 4y agoIsn't it though? I think that's the point: a well-off or even rich black kid from two black lawyers or doctors or whatnot is being favoured over a poor white kid from a (former) coal mining community in West-Virginia. The number of university openings, job openings, grants, etc. are all finite in number, so there is some amount of "competition" involved. And you can talk about statistics and averages and whatnot all day, but once you start applying averages to individuals – which is essentially what "positive discrimination" or "affirmative action" amounts to – you're always going to be wrong in a very substantial number of cases.