• @[email protected]
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    Yeah I agree with you.

    When they said:

    If there’s hidden segregation in education (…) then universities doing less of it will become better over time.

    They are totally ignoring the fact that systemic racism is self reinforcing.

    E.g. if one group of parents have enough cash on hand to enroll their children in tutoring when they need it, and impressive extra curricular activities when tutoring is unnecessary, then the children of those parents will have stronger university applications than the children that have to work part time jobs. This perpetuates racially inequality.

    It’s not difficult to understand. It doesn’t even require racial prejudice.

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      That would be socioeconomic class more than race, and I completely agree. In fact, race doesn’t have anything to do with it, other than the historical facts of America meaning there’s a racial skew to poverty. Targeting poverty ("wealth privilege) would therefore disproportionately benefit African-Americans, without needlessly excluding the poor from other demographics and continuing to perpetuate the idea that skin colour is somehow the most important thing about people.

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        In a system where inherent racism didn’t exist that would work, are you assuming that the current system wouldn’t disproportionately skew the beneficiaries to the existing racial bias for some reason ?

        That just gives you the same problem, a step down in the chain.

        Systemic racism doesn’t start once you hit a threshold of income, targeting the poor will still skew towards whatever biases exist in the system.

        disproportionately benefit African-Americans

        Either you don’t understand why African-Americans would need additional help or you are framing it that way on purpose.

        By what metric are you getting “disproportionate” ?

        continuing to perpetuate the idea that skin colour is somehow the most important thing about people

        It sounds like systemic racism is over so we can all just go back to seeing everyone as equals. /s

        Again, either you have a fundamental misunderstanding or are purposely framing it that way.

        To be clear, these measures aren’t “skin color is most important so let’s base policy on that aspect”

        they are closer to

        “The system is actively using skin colour and ethnicity to detrimentally target people who should really be equal in standing, let’s not pretend that that isn’t happening and try to address it”

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      It’s not difficult to understand, except it’s wrong in experience.

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        E.g. if one group of parents have enough cash on hand to enroll their children in tutoring when they need it, and impressive extra curricular activities when tutoring is unnecessary, then the children of those parents will have stronger university applications than the children that have to work part time jobs. This perpetuates racially inequality

        (Repeated cuz it’s good, and i believe in helping people with special requirements)

        Gosh, you’re pretty arrogant huh? Ignorant peeps usually are.

        Is “systemic” racism, where the parents have less money because racism is systemic too high a bar for your iq to clear?

        Sheesh.