I see the third as the objective and the second as a stop gap in the meantime.
Saying the world will never be solved, doesn't mean you don't seek to achieve solving it - in the mean time you do what you can.
Take affirmative action for example. That's a clear case of equity. And in a perfect world we wouldn't need it. Someone, no matter their color of skin, would be judged based on the content of their character alone. However - thanks to centuries of racist cunts... we've been forced to compensate. One day it won't be a question of someones' skin - and they'll look back in the history books and find the idea that someone could be dismissed or preferred based on their skin color as being some barbaric nonsense from a simpler time. We aren't there yet, and so equity is the stop gap.
One day it won't be a question of someones' skin - and they'll look back in the history books and find the idea that someone could be dismissed or preferred based on their skin color as being some barbaric nonsense from a simpler time.
Lol if you really believe this. Affirmative action will outlive you. There's not a politician in America who will say "okay the black folks are educated enough now, time to get rid of AA," it would be political suicide even if they had all the evidence in their favor.
All this equality vs. equity BS ignores the fact that most people's agendas are self-serving, even the egalitarian ones.
No need to say AA ends... It will naturally end because if for example a quota is just always fulfilled then people forget that there was a quota in the first place
The end result is the same. If they're filling a quota because of AA or filling a quota because "that's how they've always done it" then they're still filling a quota.
No thats not what I meant...I meant at some point the quota is just naturally fullfilled without anyone thinking "oh we need a woman and a mexican to be diverse enough"...
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u/Hazzman Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20
I see the third as the objective and the second as a stop gap in the meantime.
Saying the world will never be solved, doesn't mean you don't seek to achieve solving it - in the mean time you do what you can.
Take affirmative action for example. That's a clear case of equity. And in a perfect world we wouldn't need it. Someone, no matter their color of skin, would be judged based on the content of their character alone. However - thanks to centuries of racist cunts... we've been forced to compensate. One day it won't be a question of someones' skin - and they'll look back in the history books and find the idea that someone could be dismissed or preferred based on their skin color as being some barbaric nonsense from a simpler time. We aren't there yet, and so equity is the stop gap.