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0 pointsapi7y ago0 comments

Did school desegregation work?

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leereeves7y ago

This isn't desegregation.

This is a law requiring employers to discriminate based on gender.

apiOP7y ago

I didn't post the parent because I agree with this law completely, but to bring up the point.

The advocates of this law would probably argue that everyone discriminates all the time, including by gender.

I am on the fence. When I was younger I would have been firmly on the hands off libertarian side. Then I saw what a sham meritocracy can actually be and how much success is based on who you know. The more I saw of the high corporate and financial world the more liberal I became. Do some business consulting work and meritocracy starts to looks like survivorship bias.

justtopost7y ago

Success =/= Merit

close047y ago

I don’t know, was a law ever passed that mandated at least one black student in every school? Or just that thay had the right to compete for a spot?

So then why still allow all white boards? All Christian boards? All binary gender boards?

Unless maybe it’s just a shrewd political move.

LyndsySimon7y ago

Yeah, they bussed kids in in the South.

anon74297y ago

Uppercase Liberal politicians and their education wizards (those who forgot liberal values, but would rather inflict collective punishment as a "solution") had forced bussing of kids in Northern California in the 80's and 90's. I had to ride the bus for an hour and a half each way, three hours total per day, because there were "too many" whites and Asians at a better school one block from where I lived. And I got to deal with gangs (XIV and XIII), drug dealers and far worse. Getting up at 4:15 am and not getting home until after 5 pm... at 8-11 years old. Affirmative action, my left foot.

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