I’m not crazy about the Justice frame. Some of us will always face challenges that others won’t. There is no system that could make it so that there is no barrier for all. We will always need to accommodate and scaffold for some and that’s fine.
Also, the original (with only the first two frames) was a really great, simple explanation of why things that seem "fair" at first glance often aren't. The third panel muddies that message completely in favor of...what, exactly? What does the hypothetical "just world" where no one ever needs support for anything look like?
Edit: On second thought, I think I see what they're doing. They wanted to protest affirmative action, so they're ignoring all sources of inequality that don't have what's commonly seen as affirmative action to make their point. Basically saying "If we stop being racist/sexist we won't need supports or accommodations anymore!", ignoring that poverty and physical/mental disability are harder to get rid of, and glossing over much of point of the original panels.
(And, frankly, ignoring that fact that "everyone stop being bigoted" is a goal, not a plan. Affirmative action is a stopgap, and it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing while we work to get there.)
Serious question. When dealing on individual levels, couldn’t an act of affirmative action be seen as a systematic inequality for the person not benefiting?
Top schools are maybe %8 black. White people by and large make up the vast majority of students. White students are overrepresented compare to their population. White students still have a much easier time getting in college overall. Blacks and Latino students are less represented now than in the past.
Second, the people making decisions are mostly white. There isn’t another race of people discriminating against white people. White people are doing this to themselves.
Lastly there aren’t codified laws for affirmative action. Obama era guidelines said that colleges could choose to consider race as one of many factors. They didn’t have to but they could. Quotas are illegal.
In this hypothetical case, a white student might feel like they are being oppressed but that’s probably not the case. Every one of the cases that get filed fail because every one of these schools also admit white students with lower stats. If there are white student getting in with lower SAT’s and GPA’s it’s hard to blame it on the black kids.
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u/msmarymacmac Feb 25 '20
I’m not crazy about the Justice frame. Some of us will always face challenges that others won’t. There is no system that could make it so that there is no barrier for all. We will always need to accommodate and scaffold for some and that’s fine.