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Originally Posted by raveneye
The only reason I'm even referring to race is that race has been your perspective all along.
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Nonsense. You focused this discussion on race. You responded to my initial post, which is very clearly about discrimination in general. My observation is accurate.
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My responses here have been entirely reactive.
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I don't even know what that means. But I guess I can raise my hand and state that my posts here have also been entirely reactive.
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Originally Posted by raveneye
The purpose of AA is to give a particular race or gender assistance. If it doesn't provide any assistance, then it is not doing anything. Assistance is the "action" in "affirmative action." A synonym for assistance is "leg up".
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"leg up" implies an advantage that is extraordinary. AA is designed to restore balance. Hence, "leg up" is not accurate. Someone who receives AA is not receiving something that is not already afforded to someone who cannot receive AA.
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Now you may argue that overall, AA is just, and that's fine, but that's a completely different point.
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Not really, that is actually my entire point.
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The fact is that in any instance in which AA actually performs an action, it increases the probability of socioeconomic advancement of one group, and decreases the probability of socioeconomic advancement of another group.
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This is the secondary aspect of AA which you, incorrectly, define as the primary aspect.