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by ddd00001 1055 days ago
Incredible. You believe that all different groups have exactly the same human capital, but that we should still have a system of racial spoils. These types of comments make me concerned about democracy.

What does "racial and gender makeup of the country" even mean? Should use the idiotic government definition of "AAPI" that bundles Samoans with Japanese? Or that considers Afghanis white but Pakistanis Asian? It's idiotic.

Hispanic immigration to the U.S. has been relatively low human capital (mostly poorer, blue collar workers). The average NAEP and SAT scores of black Americans are over a standard deviation below Asians. You're willing to significantly hurt the productivity and efficiency of government because having racial representation gives you warm and fuzzies? If people like you were in charge of government, we would be South Africa in less than a year.