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Funny how the new age racists trying to pass themselves as leftwing can't stop themselves from grouping people based on the genetics they were born with, just like the far-right.
No, "they" are not "all the same" and shouldn't be treated as if they were.
The way you solve baked poverty from past discrimination is by solving the problems of Poverty, baked or otherwise, which is how a true leftwinger would go after it: you go after the greatest pain and removed it, guided only in the choice of which to go after first by its intensity (as that's how you maximize the good you do) you don't go around deeming every individual with the "right" genetics worthy of support no matter how little pain that specific individual is under and every individual with the "wrong" genetics not worthy of support no matter how much pain that specific individual is under.
For example, make sure the best schools are in the poorest neighborhoods and all of the sudden all the poor kids there have the best chances, and that includes the ones whose poverty is the product of past racial discrimination - breaking the cycle of poverty for all those kids will do a lot more good than a few quotas for only people with the right genetics in places that only help the middle-class.
(By the way, this is actually one of the strongest arguments for there not to be Private Education: so that money can't buy greater life chances for the scions of those who are already better of and the State can channel more educational resources to were it's needed the most)
The only reason to not go after wealth discrimination in general in Capitalism and instead doing very limited measures for only those with the right genetics, is to protect the Wealthy and Capitalism, which is the very opposite of being a Leftie, which is why you Neoliberals love this "lets not go after wealth discrimination which is the main method to transform other kinds of discrimination into lifelong pain and instead let's do symbolic middle-class helping measures based on the genetics people are born with" shit.
You see, you're the one doing the mindless parroting of neoliberal "solutions" fashionable in middle class circles and I'm the one who has been thinking about and guided by, for decades, the core leftwing principle of "the greatest good for the greatest number" rather than adopting unquestioningly some prepackaged ideological tidbits that are popular in my social circle.
So we have to keep brutally oppressing people until we magically stop brutally oppressing people and have a utopia?
No. That's not how that works, that's not how anything works.
You fight the Discrimination by going after every situation of discrimination, punishing the individual offenders and compensating the individual victims.
What you don't do is to carry on Discriminating on the very same visible human characteristics but change the beneficiary groups and call it "positive".
By defending differentiated treatment based on people's genetics (the very same genetic traits that Racists use, no less) you're supporting the very foundation of Racism and every far-right ideology in existence including Nazism.
You're parroting shit you haven't really pondered over and doing so with maximum emotionality and minimal rationaly, in practice defending methods which de facto prolong the very thing you claim to want to stop.
Also, why exactly are you avoiding the point I made about the greatest Discrimination being Wealth Discrimination and fighting that will do a lot more to correct the baked in problems of other kinds of discrimination - what you in perfect political-parrot way mention using the 100% parroted expression "brutal oppression" - than your Descrimination-preserving method?
I'm in a leftwing political party were I live and you sound exactly like the stupid kids who swallowed the neoliberal bullshit and think they're being lefties whilst promoting the far-right way of seeing people, up to and including the raging slogan spewing when confronted with rational analysis of the very neoliberal-think-tank-invented "equality" methods they've learned without questioning.
Because we aren't talking about wealth discrimination here. We're talking about racism. And yes when someone's family was enslaved and oppressed for 500 years because of their skin color, that's going to be the metric for who needs help to repair that damage. This isn't deep, this is some white bullshit to try and justify the continued oppression of minorities. Because there is no movement on anything else you've mentioned and you want to take away the way they are being helped right now.
I don't care who you identify with, this is some Turning Point USA level shit. We can't do the thing we're doing, because we should do something that isn't happening and may never happen. So I guess white supremacists win again by default!
You can come for affirmative action after there's consistent movement on the economic issue, or after, (as one example of many) you can't point out the minority part of town anymore just by looking at a map to see what communities were cut off from services by highways.