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JonathanPhillipFox t1_is85qcy wrote

This is unsurprising, when one considers what gets rolled up into, "Class," Consists of, Fundamentally, all of those things which their are Cultural Biases Towards or against, Historically, but, Historically, like, as-per-yesterday; and I'm reminded of a Swedish Socialist Line,

>Beware the Myth of an Ethical Meritocracy

What could this mean, well,

  • If we live in a Rich Enough Country, it would not be ethical to ask, "How can the Gifted become Accomplished,"
  • When we could, if we'd like to, ask, "What do the Least of Us Deserve," let me elaborate,
  • How do we get the Talented, "Poor," Kid in a, "bad," and Ethnic Neighborhood Into Graduate Education, that's the Former Question,
  • How Much Does the Least Qualified Deserve,
    • **and I don't mean, "**Par, adjusted for circumstances,"
    • I mean, "Truly, unqualified,'
    • e.g. the Alcoholic Who Takes tickets at the Movies and Doesn't Show Up Half the Time, of a Higher-than-average intelligence, from an above-average economic background, speaks the majoritarian dialect and reads at an above-average level
      • Does This Person Deserve to Live at all, some people say, "No,"
      • Others say, "yes," but that this person does not deserve Housing, in Saint Louis, Warrant Sweeps of Public Housing, ensure, that People Convicted of Felonies Sleep outside in the 0 Degree Fahrenheit Winters,
      • Others say, "yes," but that this person does not deserve To Eat, Necessarily, Here in Saint Louis People Convicted of Trivial Felonies, distribution of marijuana, plea deal as a teenager under-represented in their defense, do not qualify for food assistance, ever again
      • If You say, "Life in Principle, Life In Fact, Housing," then what where does it stop, non-rhetorical, Does that person deserve public dignity, does that person deserve to have a Life that can provide for their children to survive into an adulthood worth living, Does that Person, "Deserve," education for their children?
    • If you answer these in the affirmative, there is neither the Hellscape to Escape through Education nor the Deficits to attainable Potential to begin with, right?
    • Through this exercise, we can see that the former question is a Devil's Bargain that ensures it's own impossibility
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