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This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the mo
by sva_ 8mo ago
This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the moral highground, is really one of the or perhaps the dumbest idea we have ever come up with.
- cheschire 8mo agoNo child left behind
- kevinob11 8mo agoThe comment above says "uplifting" could you not counter some wrongs by doing some rights?
- sva_ 8mo agoNo I understood the framing. But if you privilege all groups except one, you're not uplifting but discriminating.
- sharkjacobs 8mo agoAre you just talking hypothetically about an abstract harm that might occur in an imaginary world or do you think that's what DEI is?
- 875967946536853 8mo ago[dead]
- sharkjacobs 8mo agoI think that there were and are a lot of different DEI programs with lots of different targets and goals and that the people who were not "uplifted", either by any single specific program, or all of them in aggregate, do not make up a coherent identifiable group.
- sva_ 8mo agoBeing in academia, I'm facing it almost every single day.
- DesaiAshu 8mo agoYou're not able to publish cutting edge research in an era where you have LLMs and Arxiv? Academia seems more open and competitive today than ever before, with more weight and influence given to more universities around the world
- DesaiAshu 8mo agoBasically all competitive sports in the US work like this If you win the championship, you get the worst draft picks for next season Do you believe they discriminate against winning teams and reduced the quality of the sport? The Yankees definitely complained a lot about it
- eblume 8mo agoI don't know; we also grow corn for ethanol and add it to gas.
- cyanydeez 8mo agoyee old Billionaire trolley problem "If we do anything, one white dude with too much money might suffer"
- DesaiAshu 8mo agoSpending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we have ever come up with" ? Please recall we paid more in reparations to Germany post WW2 than we paid to India post-colonialism We seem to not have much problem undo'ing the Nazis' wrongs with our money, why do we have a problem uplifting the Nigerians?