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Originally Posted by raveneye
There have been many alternatives suggested by many people of many races. One possibility is affirmative action based solely on economic status, race neutral. Would this satisfy you?
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As a replacement for AA, it would not satisfy me or, more importantly, the problem. As something we should implement to address an altogether different problem, the one of class discrimination, yes, it would satisfy me. But as is the case with AA, you'd see a lot of rich people complaining about being "discriminated" against because they are rich. To which I wouldn't shed a tear.
Delimiting based on economic status does not address race or gender discrimination except via proxy. A proxy solution is no solution at all. AA is here to teach us that we are discriminatory. By only going through the proxy of the disparaties in economic status, itself a problem produced by racism, is to ignore the real problem.