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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] o_o@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Copying from my response here, which I had made earlier to a different commenter who made a similar analogy: https://programming.dev/comment/440090

But why is the goal to get each arm to be the same? To untie that analogy, we’re saying that we want the cumulative experience of each racial group to be the same. Like, taken to the extreme, that means that the ultimate fairness would be to now enslave the other group to make sure it's even. What? No, that’s not what we want. Right?
What we want is for each individual, regardless of their group, to have the same access to opportunity. Right? To use your analogy again, the future we want is not to change our workouts to benefit the other arm preferentially so that we can have two arms be the same. Why? Because there's new people coming to our workout classes all the time! If we now preferentially prefer the other arm, those new people are being unfairly treated.