That said - whenever you bring this up, probably worth mentioning the important caveat of 'historical injustice'.
For example, some 'underperforming group' may technically have 'equal access' to education, but if their parents are absent, gangs everywhere, no role models, over policed, and become cynical and standoff / thuggish by age 15, and fallen so far behind there's 0% chance of them leveraging supposed educational opportunities ... well ... then is it really 'equal opportunity'?
Definitely one could make economic and plausibly racial arguments.
Second - there are issues of visible representation.
Even if we took 'the most competent and qualified people' to be in US Congress, would it be good if they were 100% Black Women, or 100% Asian Men? Probably not. In some cases 'representation' is a form of 'qualification'.
Similarly for TV readers, some high profile things.
I don't think that it matters that much in private things and the issue is pushed too hard.
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So we should not be dismissive or lacking in intellectual rigour or even empathy with the issue.
That said, yes, 'forcing equal outcomes' is going to be dystopian.
Also, I fear that it's really easy to push the idea of 'equal outcomes' and it's as 'ugly populist' as 'ultra nationalism / my country first' etc..
That said - whenever you bring this up, probably worth mentioning the important caveat of 'historical injustice'.
For example, some 'underperforming group' may technically have 'equal access' to education, but if their parents are absent, gangs everywhere, no role models, over policed, and become cynical and standoff / thuggish by age 15, and fallen so far behind there's 0% chance of them leveraging supposed educational opportunities ... well ... then is it really 'equal opportunity'?
Definitely one could make economic and plausibly racial arguments.
Second - there are issues of visible representation.
Even if we took 'the most competent and qualified people' to be in US Congress, would it be good if they were 100% Black Women, or 100% Asian Men? Probably not. In some cases 'representation' is a form of 'qualification'.
Similarly for TV readers, some high profile things.
I don't think that it matters that much in private things and the issue is pushed too hard.
...
So we should not be dismissive or lacking in intellectual rigour or even empathy with the issue.
That said, yes, 'forcing equal outcomes' is going to be dystopian.
Also, I fear that it's really easy to push the idea of 'equal outcomes' and it's as 'ugly populist' as 'ultra nationalism / my country first' etc..