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Sure, but you don't look at that, but look at race. For example, would affirmative action policies give priority to a white irish man/woman, a descendant of th
by ajsnigrutin 2y ago
Sure, but you don't look at that, but look at race.
For example, would affirmative action policies give priority to a white irish man/woman, a descendant of the poorly-treated irish people ~100years ago, or to a black person whose (grand)parents immigrated to USA after the slavery was abolished?
- eapressoandcats 2y agoYeah I think there are plausible arguments that affirmative action is not the right way to solve the problem. Mostly I’m trying to explain the dynamic that causes affirmative action to exist.
- jimbokun 2y agoI think favorable treatment for direct descendants of slaves is a much more defensible position, than favorable treatment based on “race”, which is difficult to even define.