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Coming from another continent, it feels the discourse in the US is poisoned by the word RACE. Back home, no one uses it. The best proxy for inequality is poverty. Make poor people richer with basic support like free education and health care. Tax the richer. That should solve the problem. If you wonder about woman, create support for working mum with after school program and free baby care. Sorry to state the obvious.

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> it feels the discourse in the US is poisoned by the word RACE. Back home, no one uses it.

I'm not sure where you're located, but as an American fan of European football, it seems like race is still very much an issue on other continents and not just as a proxy for some other inequality. Just in the last week, there have been at least two instances in the top 5 leagues of fans racially abusing players[1]. Maybe the US is too focused on race (I don't think so), but saying "no one uses it" seems like an indication of the opposite problem.

[1] In Fulham vs Watford and Valencia vs Real Madrid

What you see in football does not represent a continent, though. Where I live in Europe there are people of many races, but I have only heard the word race (in my native language) used only a handful of times in my entire life. Inequality via poverty is a thing, though.

He doesnt disclose where hes from because it is likely and ethno-homogenous state and would therefore ruin his bullshit bad faith argument.

Or he could be INDIAN and doesnt want to be criticized about the caste system lol.

I agree all of this talk about equity inequality and race and gender. completely betrayed the fact that the biggest predictor of societal issues is poverty.

it almost feels like the elites are pitting us against each other. again.

I can’t think of any societal injustice that could not be undone simply by by floating opportunities opportunities to those in poverty.

Median wealth of a US households by race: white $250k; black: $27k; asian: $320k

https://www.pewresearch.org/2023/12/04/wealth-gaps-across-ra...

That actually shows that helping poor people would help black the most. So why not do it?

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