| > That's a historically ignorant characterization. De jure discrimination existed long after slavery ended. Had Bill Gates been born a black kid in the south, he likely would've gone to a segregated school. This is an ignorant reply that overlooks what I have said in my full comment. I was referring to slavery explicitly and I did say at the end of my comment that education is still the biggest problem. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman > Here, that's likely north of $300 billion per year (assuming all of the black-white wage gap is explained by discrimination). You only have to pay it out once and then everyone could move on with their lives. > That's like saying you don't fix an infection by cutting out the infected tissue No, it's like saying, you don't fix an infection by infecting something else. > Or that you don't fix cancer by collaterally poisoning a bunch of perfectly healthy non-cancerous cells. That's exactly how you fix disease! https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter > The idea that the harms caused by federal and state governments' laws protecting slavery and segregation will go away simply because you get rid of those laws is like believing that a paperclip will unbend itself. Fantastically naive. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman I suggest actually reading and understanding my points. You are not going to convince anyone with verbal gymnastics. |
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