RE: affirmative action
July 9, 2014 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, we might conceptualize the way that we have historically treated minorities and women as having handled them as though they were of the lowest economic class. Property. If we drew ourselves a venn I wonder what we would find, between minorities, females, and the poor? An "affirmative action of the poor" would almost certainly handle the most extreme gaps in our society currently being handled by affirmative action- and it might even pick up a few folks who fell by the wayside, like share-croppers descendants (as only one of what I'm certain must be hundreds of examples). It's also a less cumbersome position to argue from, given that the metrics involved have nothing to do with the presence of a penis, the relative amount of melanin in the applicants skin, or the deeds of long dead men.
(wonderings above are clearly rhetorical)
(wonderings above are clearly rhetorical)
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