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What does health mean in this context? What does worse off mean?
Pardon my ignorance but you seem to know more about this topic.
American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
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#32LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.
Agreed. A better article title would be:
"American Media is Focused On Everything But What They Should Be (And Are Paid Well For It)"
This is yet another example of how many of the elites live in a bubble. Well educated, yet oh so ignorant.
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Wealthy black people are worse off than poor white people? Do you have any references for that? I can't imagine anyone would rather be starving and white than rich and black.
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In what way is a black family of millionaires "worst off" than a family of white people?
that sounds ignorant to me.
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#35> For more than 40 years the court had allowed some positive discrimination I’m not a fan of the term “positive discrimination” at all. It tries to hide the fact that the “positive” effect to one group is necessarily at the expense of another. Whether it’s positive or negative just depends on which group we’re talking about.
Agreed, if you have a finite amount of resources and "positively" favor one group over another, this automatically disfavors another group. When skin color is used for this "positive" favor, we have a term for the impact on the other group: racism. Have we not learned that racism is ALWAYS bad?
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#36>Surveys show that majorities of African-Americans, Californians, Democrats and Hispanics all oppose the use of race in college admissions (and in other areas). This was surprising to me.
Why? Nobody wants to think their success was the result of an unfair arbitrary advantage.
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#37As Warren Buffet once said, "There is a class war in America, and we won." The race wars and culture wars the upper class have fomented with their corporate media were designed to keep the working class fighting with each other while they changed the tax rules and absconded with everything they could.
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#38How do you determine the class of student being admitted?
How do you determine the race of a student? "Class" can be designated by objective measures like family income, whether or not parents are university graduates, etc.
By comparison, how do you determine if an applicant is Black or Latin? Do you have them prove ancestry all the way back to Africa? Brazil is experiencing this issue [1]:
> And that's when this story gets even more complicated. Because in order to "prove" that he was Afro-Brazilian, his lawyers needed to find some criteria. He went to seven dermatologists who used something called the Fitzpatrick scale that grades skin tone from one to seven, or whitest to darkest. The last doctor even had a special machine.
> A few weeks ago, these race tribunals were made mandatory for all government jobs. In one state, they even issued guidelines about how to measure lip size, hair texture and nose width, something that for some has uncomfortable echoes of racist philosophies in the 19th century.
1. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/29/495665329/...
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#39This was a pretty core topic of conversation around Bernie's run for president, and Marxist lefties have been saying this quite consistently. Would be fascinating to see the Economist actually engage with some of that directly.