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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote 2017-02-08 10:37 am (UTC)

Well I don't agree with all your rules. Or at least, I do agree depending upon interpetation? For instance I consider myself a left-leaning liberal - sometimes a situation would seem to require a compromise between the two (for instance while there are numerous problems with the Welfare state I do believe it is important to have a safety net of some kind and that relying on localism and charity to provide such a safety net is insufficient particularly since the safety net is generally more expensive in areas with fewer resources) - I don't think such compromises mean I can't describe myself as liberal.

My views on 32 are very complex. I believe positive discrimination is an incredibly blunt tool with many serious problems (including that, as it says on the tin, it discriminates and not on the basis of ability), but unconscious bias is a real phenomena as is a tendency for cliques of various kinds to self-reinforce by only recruiting from the same pool and sometimes a blunt tool is the only one you've got (or the least bad of those on offer). I don't think in and of itself it is automatically morally wrong - though I don't think you can deploy it morally without thinking long and hard about what alternatives there may be and being certain that there isn't a better way to achieve your end.

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