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I look forward to the day when people are judged for who they are, not for what they do to someone's arbitrary spreadsheet designed to make the numbers give them a warm and fuzzy feeling.

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Bit late, for this, but

> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

You monster! /s

Yep.

Can you elaborate on how you get from the stated goal to "numbers that make you feel warm and fuzzy"? I don't think it's a crazy leap, but it sounds like you're taking a very antagonistic stance, and are perhaps letting yourself fall into the trap of oversimplification as a result.

Disparate outcomes on a spreadsheet organised by categories like sex and race are assumed to indicate only the presence of oppression and therefore something to be fixed by controversial affirmative action policies and other discriminatory practices. Incremental progress towards artificial 50/50 ratios of biological characteristics are lauded as unambiguous social goods - these are the "warm and fuzzies" alluded to above. I'm not denying that oppression plays some role in disparate outcomes, but I object to it being presented, as it plainly is, as the only major factor. The reality is highly multivariate.

I'm going to have to pass. Best of luck to you.

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