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curl-6 on 04 September 2025
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sc94597 said:
curl-6 said:

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.

If people still find other ways to not hire people on the basis of race (and they do to this very day, this is a fact) then yes there is a lack of opportunity. 

If people are unbanked on the basis of the ethnic group they were born in, then yes there is a lack of opportunity. This happens today. 

If people live in a food desert because of the racial group they were born in, then yes there is a reduction in opportunity. 

If a person starts out it a worse school district because they were born in a segregated location (and yes American cities, especially in the North, are still very much segregated) then yes there is a lack of opportunity.  

Racial quotas were banned in the 1970's in the U.S.

Positive discrimination/Affirmative Action (until last year) in the U.S had very little to do with racial quotas and much more to do with assessing what a person has done with the opportunities they had available to them on the basis of various socioeconomic factors, including race and gender but also things like zip code, familial education background, and familial income. 

If access to education is the issue, then the solution is better funding for schools.

Food deserts are a tricky one cos in very poor areas (regardless of race) there's the risk that shoplifting due to said poverty could discourage supermarkets and the like.

Unbanking isn't something I'm particularly familiar with, but that would fall under the basic principle of that people should be treated equally, same as hiring. How best to realistically achieve this I can't say; if I had all the answers for solving inequality I wouldn't be spending my day on a niche video game forum.