Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

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sc94597 said:

curl-6 said:

It's not 1954 or 1965 anymore though, most people alive today weren't even born back then, segregation and such have been over for decades and decades.

Giving people a free ride cos of the skin colour or their gender doesn't solve the problem, at some point, people have to help themselves.

Okay, but you aren't addressing the point. Two populations of the same ethnic group existed. One population lived in a less segregated society. The other lived in a more segregated society. Today, the population that lived in a more segregated society has more equal outcomes and is far less segregated from the white population near it. How? Active interventions. The population that started out less segregated is about as segregated as it was in the 1950's and 60's. 

Your entire point depends on a natural passive route toward equality once legal barriers were lifted. But the evidence isn't showing that. Equality needs to be actively catalyzed by public policy and social forces. 

The entire way you are framing it as "free rides" is also disingenuous. Nobody gets free rides. Again, somebody overcoming a lack of opportunity to achieve the same result is more impressive than somebody who had more opportunities to get then there. 

If you hire, promote, or allow entry to people regardless of race or gender, than there isn't a lack of opportunity.

You can address inequality without methods like say racial quotas. If say education is an issue, then you can focus on making sure schools are better funded. A person may still make the choice to drop out of school though, and that's on them.