Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:20:56 -0400
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On 4/3/2024 5:36 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 22:17:03 -0400, moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> If a society inherits a racist component, as ours has, what measures can
>>>> address it that can't be (mis)labeled 'racist' by those so inclined?
>>>
>>> Your question rests on a false premise with your use of the word
>>> 'mislabeled'.
>>
>> Your best response is to cavil at my parenthetical editorializing?
>>
> If despite the racial progress made both legally and in every other
> way is STILL considered racist (and the BLM people DO demonize MLK for
> advocating equality of opportunity rather than equality of results)
> then why persist with legal equality?
> 
> Obviously that's a rhetorical question but my point is that the BLM +
> company definition of "justice" and "equality" (which is the same as
> the DEI definition which is 'equality of results" not opportunity) is
> positively obscene.
> 
> Go back and re-read the ENTIRE "I have a dream" speech and don't just
> pay attention to the last minute of it (which is all most of us
> remember). If you pay attention to the first half of the speech you'll
> see King rips several states quite hard for racism before he gets to
> the part about his children that we all remember.
> 
> https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
> 
> For my money the first half is at least as important as his inspiring
> finale.

The rub occurs when "racist" measures are needed to hasten the advent of 
equal opportunity.  E.g., for blacks to be accepted as doctors, a few 
have to be coerced into (also coerced) medical schools.