The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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    10 months ago

    Yeah it will. For decades, undeserving white people got loans over black people who may have been more deserving.

    How would you right that wrong if not by giving more resources to the community that was denied them

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      10 months ago

      If you want to fight economic inequality, do it by lifting up impoverished people regardless of race. There are plenty of poor white people who have never benefitted from preferential treatment. Make public schools good enough to enable those who are financially disadvantaged to have an opportunity to do well academically regardless of their race.

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        10 months ago

        Sure, we can do both.

        Why don’t you want to give to poor people who also have been victimized by systemic racism?

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          10 months ago

          Giving to poor people regardless of race includes economic victims of racism. It doesn’t matter if you’re poor because you or your ancestors experienced racism or if you’re poor because of more broad economic oppression and bad luck, it doesn’t make you any more or less deserving of help either way.

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                10 months ago

                It’s still funny to me your solution to centuries of systemic racism is "ok, ok. That absolutely did happen. But now we’re going to treat everyone equally. No need to give the people oppressed for generations any kind of additional benefit ’