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Originally Posted by mtb tripper the 2nd
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You probably think affirmative action isn't racist, right?
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Actually, in this very thread (or possibly the Why are most of the artists in the USA democrats?; both are rather long now and blurring in my head) I actually addressed affirmative action. Obviously it's racist. Obviously that's not a bad thing if you're using it to combat racism; no one with a brain would say targeting the untouchable caste in India for housing/educational/whatever benefits is a bad thing, because the untouchables have been screwed over in India for centuries. But of course it is "racist" to target a race.
My problem with affirmative action though isn't that it's racist, it's that it's not an ideal mechanism. Like if it worked perfectly great, let the targeted specific racist thing continue to fight overall societal racism. But affirmative action doesn't do that as well as it could: it ignores disadvantaged kids whose race has historically done well, and it privileges the most well-off members of disadvantaged minority communities (eg. it helps rich blacks and doesn't help poor whites).
As I said before, the solution isn't to eliminate the consideration of background in higher education, the solution is to target by social class. If you give preference to the poor kids, and more blacks are poor, then by definition you give preference to blacks (and specifically the ones who need it) without ever having to even know the applicant's race.
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Originally Posted by mtb tripper the 2nd
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What about dumping Native Americans in trailer parks with a lifetime supply of liquor?
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Honestly I'm not really up on the latest Native American issues, but I think anyone with a brain and even minimal knowledge of our reservation system knows it's completely fucked up.
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Originally Posted by mtb tripper the 2nd
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No one within the current femnazi or black lives matter regime can even hold a candle to that man. By comparing the supposed inequalities of today to the civil rights movement of the 1960s you are insulting those people. He was fighting for something entirely different. People were being lynched in the name of racism.
Who do you have now? Al Sharpton?
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Ok obviously things are better now than in the 60s, but look at what you're (more or or less) arguing: minorities have been systematically repressed for centuries, but because they made a few gains in the 60s they must be perfectly equal now, and since Al Sharpton (who, BTW, I completely agree is a total fuckwad) is no MLK there's no reason to think about race or have anyone advocate for racial issues anymore. Yay!