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Originally Posted by someone123
I have heard this point a lot but it makes no sense to me. This seems to be a kind of time-division equity or perhaps long-term cosmic justice. Aside from having no clear value as a goal (equity "on average" over centuries not meaning much to humans who live their lives in specific periods) it doesn't seem stable. I don't see how generation #31 or whatever will be happy to go back to equality after #16-30 were punished for the discrimination of generations #1-15. It sounds like a recipe for problems.
The simpler system seems better. Try to give people access to good quality basic goods and public services (nutritious food and clean water, clothing, housing, health care, education) and hire based on competence. Right now we're failing the quality public services part for some groups and trying to make it up farther along the pipeline. You can have the most diverse CBC news anchor team ever and still not have clean running water in all of the country.
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As you probably know we're generally on the same page for most of this stuff.
But I don't see any harm in acknowledging the (fairly) recent history.
Obviously I don't support reverse or payback racism or discrimination.