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As an European, this focus on race, which is basically a social definition is truly crazy. The first aspect, how do you define people whose parents are from dif
by Foobar8568 4y ago
As an European, this focus on race, which is basically a social definition is truly crazy.
The first aspect, how do you define people whose parents are from different constructs? How would an "Hispanic" father with an "African American" mother kid be declared ? And don't get me started on multigeneration or if it works just on look (let's forget how genes work) or "lineage"?
By having to decide or denying mixity, it promotes the idea of "pure blood"/master race or blood. Just totally backward idea.
- acjohnson55 4y agoNot that long ago, when my parents were children, there was no such issue denying them the ability to use certain bathrooms or drinking fountains on account of their race, social construct or not, let alone attending the best schools. Thankfully, affirmative action was created by the time they went to college. Your point is not a bad one. Race is not rigorously defined. And yet, there are large groups of people still suffering significant disadvantage along racial lines, for historic and ongoing reasons. It's not possible to address this in a race-blind way. In practice, affirmative action policies work essentially on the honor system.
- esyir 4y agoThen perhaps the proper response from opponents of Affirmative Action is to game said honor system. Identify as Black/Native American only for as long is it takes to get in.