[lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11

[Todd Archer]

>and affirmative action.  i believe affirmative action was undermined 
>because
>it was race based.  i know, on the surface, that statement sounds racist.
>but hear me out.  i'd like to see an affirmative action that's based on
>need.  one that includes all races.

Then why bother calling it affirmative action?  We could call it, say, "full 
employment".

But then this effaces the "race thing".  Not something I'd care to get 
behind.

I have an honest question for you, meant in all seriousness: by this 
critique of affirmative action, are you trying for something "fairer" ie 
"more equal"?  Like employment by competitive "merit", rather than 
employment done to correct a "raci-st/-al imbalance" at the structural 
level?

Todd

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