Yes there is ONE avenue that excludes white males. I do think it's important because (maybe still, maybe just in the past) there has been an under representation. It's not ONLY white males. There's ONE avenue that's not open to white males. It's ONE thing aimed at getting people. Is it fair? I don't know go ask the Supreme Court but it sure does need to be there.
You can zoom in on this ONE avenue but until someone with the same qualifications as you gets hired and race is the deciding factor nome of this will have any impact on you or others. Also the application allows you to opt out of that information I think.
Let's put it like this. We start a game of monopoly. There are two white players, one male and one female. Two black players, one male and one female.
For the first 10 turns, the white player is the only one who collects cash as they go around the board, and the only one who can buy property. For the next ten turns, the white woman gets the same treatment. Ten turns later, the black players are allowed to participate.
It is no longer a fair game if everyone gets the exact same every time around the board moving forward from this point, because some players are starting at a disadvantage. When we look at a population of an entire country, these advantages and disadvantages don't necessarily apply to every single individual, but we can make look at trends within groups of people to identify those who have been given more opportunities to succeed.
There are systemic barriers in place that do not allow some players to succeed with the same ease that other players do. Yes, some players white players have disadvantages and some black and women players have advantages - but at its core, a group of people being disenfranchised is the problem our society is attempting to fix. We want to ensure that even though people are starting at different places, we can all be allowed a chance to succeed. And it's not an easy problem, and it's not a perfect solution. We cant start the game over now, we have to do the best with what we can.
Pretending everyone is on equal footing when this country was built by slaves and we have many people who lived through segregation still living today is delusional.
Yawn. You guys are all so predictable and honestly unoriginal. Always moving the goal posts the entire way through your regurgitated talking points..
“Racial discrimination throughout history is bad…”
“racial discrimination isn’t happening today…”
“Oh ok maybe it’s happening but it’s not that much…”
“Actually, due to systemic barriers and privilege it’s necessary that we racially discriminate to create equity.”
Fucking give us all a break. I’ll make it real simple for you.
1. ZERO people are claiming past injustices didn’t happen.
2. ZERO people are “pretending everybody is on equal footing”
3. Racial discrimination is either good or it’s bad. You cannot have it both ways.. hint, it’s bad no matter what purpose you’re using it for or no matter how good your intentions are.
4. Everybody deserves a chance to succeed. We can either create EQUALITY under the law and treat everybody the same, or try to generate EQUITY aka equal outcomes… you cannot have both. It’s impossible. If you have equality of people, you will encounter different end results. If you try to enforce equity in outcomes (like you assclowns are talking about) you must treat people differently therefore wrecking equality.
5. You’re trying to “correct for history”… aka righting past wrongs. Giving opportunity to people who look like other people who were wronged in the past…You must destroy the fabric of a free and equal society in order to do this (equal under the law not equal on the starting line).
There’s so much more to say on it but I’ll just ask you this, and I truly want an honest fair answer.. I’m genuinely asking:
To what end? …When have the wrongs been righted? When and how do we determine sufficient special treatment to ‘correct for the past’? What is that measure.
I’d sincerely like an answer to that.
