The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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    1 year ago

    Why do you keep comparing unrelated things instead of dealing with what you are arguing directly?

    The national debt isn’t reparations, inheriting a house isn’t reparations. Reparations is reparations and is a form of generational debt. No one asked for their ancestors to do things that were awful and no one should have to pay for a sin that they did not committ.

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      1 year ago

      The point is not that you committed the sin, but that you benefitted, and continue to benefit from slavery, at the expense of slaves and their descendants. That’s what the metaphor is supposed to illustrate. American society owes a debt too large to ever repay, and there’s nothing wrong with trying to level the playing field a bit.

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        1 year ago

        How would that differ from a generational debt? Exactly. No metaphors to hide behind this time.

        American society owes a debt

        Oh now we are trying to sneak in collective judgement. Cute almost missed that.