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E30: Affirmative Action, the Administrative State, and The Right's Victory in the Courts

"Moment of Zen"

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The Fallacy of Affirmative Action

I think there's an argument that says hey, it's not fair that a black person let's say who's a descendant of slavery grows up in an environment where they're at a disadvantage because of the color of their skin. And so why should the Asian person get sort of an equal chance when the black person does not? Something like that is somewhat of the logic behind some of the affirmative action. How do we address that logic? I think it's a fallacy because you're lumping in a group of people's experience in kind of like one category and then you're applying it to a group ofpeople based on skin color. Like it is a game the government is never going to

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