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> If you want to live in a world where people are treated as individuals and where individuals have equal opportunities, then you have to normalize language and

> If you want to live in a world where people are treated as individuals and where individuals have equal opportunities, then you have to normalize language and behaviours and create systems that treat people as individuals. I'd love this world. How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare as a child (and prenatal) and the same schooling prior to college. It seems like for many Americans this philosophy first applies during college admissions. The first 17 years of everyone's life is apparently equal enough.

naasking 3y ago
> How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare as a child (and prenatal) Universal healthcare, like everywhere else in the world. > and the same schooling prior to college This one is tougher with wealth disparities, because the wealthy will always have more opportunities and programs available to them. Public funding for after school programs and camps. > The first 17 years of everyone's life is apparently equal enough. Democrats did a good thing with the child tax credit that lifted millions of kids out of poverty. They of course botched it, per usual, by placing a time limit on it, and now it's expired.
- nightski 3y ago
  Universal healthcare sets a base standard which is fantastic but it in no way equalizes healthcare across the economic spectrum.
  - naasking 3y ago
    I'm frankly not concerned about the 0.1% that can afford to fly to another country for experimental treatments. The US is the primary place for this anyway, so if the US went universal healthcare route, that shrinks the pool even further.
Clubber 3y ago
>How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare Medicaid attempts to accomplish this. I'm not sure how well. Careful when you say "same," the solution might end up being equally bad for everybody. >same schooling prior to college. Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. Fund by either voting district or entire state.
- haberman 3y ago
  > Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. What is your basis for saying this? Info I have come across suggests the opposite: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wis...
  - Clubber 3y ago
    https://apnews.com/article/1d856cd98d4c491e8443576b3a817740 https://apnews.com/article/1d856cd98d4c491e8443576b3a817740
thworp 3y ago
I will recommend Thomas Sowell's writing on this topic, he has some very poignant (and somewhat depressing) points on AA and the wider black cultural landscape that surrounds it.

naasking 3y ago

> How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare as a child (and prenatal) Universal healthcare, like everywhere else in the world. > and the same schooling prior to college This one is tougher with wealth disparities, because the wealthy will always have more opportunities and programs available to them. Public funding for after school programs and camps. > The first 17 years of everyone's life is apparently equal enough. Democrats did a good thing with the child tax credit that lifted millions of kids out of poverty. They of course botched it, per usual, by placing a time limit on it, and now it's expired.

nightski 3y ago
Universal healthcare sets a base standard which is fantastic but it in no way equalizes healthcare across the economic spectrum.
- naasking 3y ago
  I'm frankly not concerned about the 0.1% that can afford to fly to another country for experimental treatments. The US is the primary place for this anyway, so if the US went universal healthcare route, that shrinks the pool even further.

Clubber 3y ago

>How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare Medicaid attempts to accomplish this. I'm not sure how well. Careful when you say "same," the solution might end up being equally bad for everybody. >same schooling prior to college. Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. Fund by either voting district or entire state.

haberman 3y ago
> Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. What is your basis for saying this? Info I have come across suggests the opposite: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wis...
- Clubber 3y ago
  https://apnews.com/article/1d856cd98d4c491e8443576b3a817740 https://apnews.com/article/1d856cd98d4c491e8443576b3a817740

thworp 3y ago

I will recommend Thomas Sowell's writing on this topic, he has some very poignant (and somewhat depressing) points on AA and the wider black cultural landscape that surrounds it.