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re: Asian groups come out in support of justice department affirmative action plan
Posted on 8/3/17 at 12:22 pm to Centinel
Posted on 8/3/17 at 12:22 pm to Centinel
quote: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.
You're ok with screwing over kids who were born well, well after said historical inequities ended?
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"
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 12:25 pm
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Posted on 8/3/17 at 12:25 pm to Iosh
There's a rather large difference between "all citizens paying a few bucks extra in taxes" and telling a kid that on paper he deserves to be admitted to an education that will shape his entire future, but he has to attend a less prestigious university because he's the wrong skin color.
ETA: You are either against discrimination or you are not. There is no "discrimination is bad except THIS type of discrimination which is ok."
ETA: You are either against discrimination or you are not. There is no "discrimination is bad except THIS type of discrimination which is ok."
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 8/3/17 at 12:30 pm to Iosh
Do you think less blacks would be accepted to colleges if the admissions process was prohibited from basing decisions on race?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 12:38 pm to Iosh
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When we paid reparations to interned Japanese, the money came out of general government funds.
The big difference is that the interred Japanese affected were directly paid by the government, rather than their descendants 150+ years later.
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