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Ender if you can't see that "skin color" is very much a "qualification" for quite a lot in the US, not all of it good, then the conversation is pointl

Posted by TWuGbacca (aka TWuG) Dec 10 '15, 15:35

"Skin color" still very much "qualifies" certain members of our society for enhanced scrutiny from police (to put it mildly), less opportunity for housing and employment and education, etc.

"Skin color" is still used to segregate and divide and deny.

The answer to all of that isn't to pretend it doesn't, but to actively work to reverse it. That means paying attention to how police treat people based on "skin color" and how lenders treat people based on "skin color" and how institutes of higher ed treat people based on "skin color". And then to find remedies that actually break down the systems and biases that allow the disparate treatment.

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Except in those situations you agree that judging people based on the hue of their skin is wrong, correct? -- nm - Ender Dec 10, 16:31 1
- Again, nobody is doing that. For example, "black" is an ethnicity as well as a skin color. - Yoda Dec 10, 17:27
In the computer industry, we have one development methodology called Agile ... inside that, there's a useful concept for combatting institutional -- (edited) - Beryllium Dec 10, 15:48

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Ender if you can't see that "skin color" is very much a "qualification" for quite a lot in the US, not all of it good, then the conversation is pointl

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