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I think their answer is that reversed bias is still bias. Still wrong.
It would be a simplistic view of a complex issue. Thereby arriving at the wrong conclusion.
I can narrow it down that way, because I felt it for a long time. That was my answer.
It was only a modern examination of the core issue, and of human nature, that I arrived at a need to counter balance our inherent bias. My answer is to shove bias in the other direction. A little bit.
But moreover, the true answer is we need to balm the wound of jealousy people feel when others have an advantage. And I am not talking about minorities being jealous of the majority. Rather, I speak of the jealously the majority feels when anything is given to a minority. Anything at all. We feel this because being a majority does not matter, we still compete in the rat race. We want more, we need more. Anything that is not ours... is ours to seize for the betterment of our position. To see anyone else get something is to poke our wound. It is to belittle our pain and to ignore our plight. Do we not also bleed?
The solution for affirmative action is to reach the hearts of men. To do that our society must be changed from the ground up. The rat race must end. Our pain must end. Basic Income (and housing, and healthcare) are all things we need to do to improve our temperament and sooth the savage beast that is mankind. Or no matter how hard you try, laws will be broken and societies will crumble, before we allow anyone else to get what we deserve.
Sometimes you amaze me and fill me with hope (every once in a while though, the opposite happens buts it’s increasingly rare).
To add to your comment. We’ve been conditioned for so long that we are the problem and that we don’t deserve certain things other countries have already figured out. The breaking of that mentality is what’s required in order for this country to progress and experience its next golden age.
Until then, it’s basically everyone for themselves and “I don’t care who gets hurt, if it someone is getting something I can’t get then I don’t want anyone to have it”.