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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For everyone who admits privilege and wants for things to be equal, would you give your jobs (which you received due to privilege) to an underprivileged person?  Would you give up your child's college admission so that an under privileged person could go in their stead?  [/quote]

This is the problem with his conversation. It is NOT a us versus them game. I don't have to give up my kid's college admission. He is talented, bright, and driven kid and will get into any number of good colleges. If he gets rejected from his first choice: for all I know, a smarter, more privileged person could be "taking his spot," not a less privileged one.

We WANT to believe it is the unqualified minority who is taking our spots because it is hard to believe our kids just didn't make the cut for some reason.

But either way, my kid will be FINE.

And I do not need to give up my job. What I can do is really i am in a competitive field. Sometimes people with better or worse dualities than me will get the promotions I feel I deserved.

Either way, I will be fine.

There really is enough to go around.

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So then you would give his spot up? Yes or no.[/quote]

I think her answer was a run around to say no for either the jobs or school.  It's a lot of hand wringing and a lot of lip flapping with nothing to back it up. It's a form of NIMBY.  [/quote]

Her answer was not a "runaround."

She pointed out that your question has a false premise: you assume that there are only win-lose scenarios in life, in which one person wins and the other loses, which is the usual Darwinian nonsense trotted out by frightened, reactionary people who assume that a minority moving upward means that they will move downward.[/quote]

You must live somewhere where there are limitless job and college openings.  Of course someone wins and someone loses.  [/quote]

I'm scratching my head about all this "there's enough to go around for everyone" nonsense. There's plainly not or there wouldn't be a huge and growing wealth divide.[/quote]

So maybe this is an economic policy issue, not an access to opportunity issue. It’s just easier for those (POC included) who come from generational wealth/education to have access to better opportunities. Perhaps we’re better suited considering why people who work for a living - in the United States- suffer long-term financial insecurity, as opposed to keeping a system in place that ensures success only for a select few.

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