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Those are certainly shitty ways to ensure equity. Why are they what you jump to? What if we did a better job helping parents with childcare and healthcare?

• JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
  >Those are certainly shitty ways to ensure equity. Why are they what you jump to? Because they're effectively what proponents of equity have implemented in practice: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/white-students-unfair-advantage-in-admissions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/white-students-un... >What if we did a better job helping parents with childcare and healthcare? I mean we've already spent trillions on such efforts over the last half century, and the effects have been pretty minimal (and in some cases I'd argue outright counterproductive). See Abbott Districts in New Jersey, the Head Start preschool program, subsidized daycare in every state, etc.
  • ceejayoz 5mo ago
    > Because they're effectively what proponents of equity have implemented in practice… So you agree with the goal of equity, but not the approaches taken so far?
    • JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
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    • zahlman 5mo ago
      Clearly none of this has anything to do with GP's own position. The argument is that the equity proponents are explicitly targeting "equality of outcome", explicitly taking measures that aim to establish this, explicitly using metrics based on this, and being intellectually dishonest about it.