re: Asian groups come out in support of justice department affirmative action plan

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You're ok with screwing over kids who were born well, well after said historical inequities ended?

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When we paid reparations to interned Japanese, the money came out of general government funds. We didn't only tax people who were alive in WW2, or only tax white people. It "screwed" everyone in the micro sense that they paid a few extra bucks in taxes. So I'm similarly not too exercised about "screwing" in the micro sense of maybe some marginal applicants attending their second choice school.

I don't think it's enough, after several centuries of fricked treatment, for the state to just say "okay we're colorblind now that we've stopped plundering your land / keeping you from accumulating wealth / killing a bunch of you for allegedly sleeping with white women"