• Senal@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    To clarify, I don’t believe in the creation of any deliberately biased system.

    As in you don’t believe it’s possible for a biased system to exist or you don’t think it’s possible to do it deliberately, something else ?

    but I believe the main societal issue is overwhelmingly one of wealth disparity.

    I agree, and the idea of providing a baseline humanitarian standard of living isn’t impossible it’s just very unlikely without some hefty and painful foundational changes to how societies are currently working.

    I’m not assigning a moral value when I use the phrase “disproportionate benefit”. I’m alluding to the disproportionate degree of poverty experienced by African-Americans. Poverty relief should therefore benefit them more. If there was no differential distribution of wealth with respect to race, the benefits of poverty relief would be neutral with respect to race.

    Additionally, the person I responded to is very clearly describing a situation related to a student’s socioeconomic status. I absolutely believe some kind of “blind” application process is necessary to minimise the impact of a number of possible prejudices held by the admissions team.

    Fair enough, it seems i entirely misunderstood what you meant, my apologies.

    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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      No worries, thanks for replying. When I say I don’t believe in them, I mean I don’t believe we (i.e. society) should create those systems. Unfortunately I absolutely believe we do create them, both deliberately and inadvertently.