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Breaking: Supreme Court Shoots Down Affirmative Action. (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by African_Grey@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.

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[–] Kill_joy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I only work out my right arm for 2 years straight and then suddenly say "oh I'm going to now start doing the same, equal work out on my left" they don't just suddenly become the same. You'd have to put more time and focus into the left for it to become equal to the right.

However if you're honestly claiming that affirmative action = "doing the same thing again to a different race", no analogy in the world is going to help you. Your ignorance is untreatable I'm afraid.

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's the same level of understanding the solution as spez thinking editing the karma DB values makes him look good.

If the fix didn't start at the ground, then it wasn't a fix

We can't solve the hiring/acceptance discrimination by forcing it, they first need to be at a competitive disadvantage by doing it, and then we target the discrimination that exists after that.

With the way it is right now it's encouraging the stereotypes of minorities being lesser/incompetent because it expects them to compete with people who received much better training and practice. It's downright cruel to expect them to succeed in that situation.