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POC are disproportionately impacted by poverty, which makes it harder for them in many areas of life. But shouldn't our reaction to this be helping the poor, most of which will be POC, instead of helping POC, of which a minority will be poor?
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Aella
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I don't think so. If you have a weight which drags some people down to the ocean floor, you should figure out how to help everybody off the ocean floor *regardless if they have a weight or not*. The only criteria for helping is that they're down there, not *how* they got there.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
?? if you just operate on "Help whoever's lowest" then if they get dragged below their peers, they'll be helped. And people are weighted *for different reasons* if you count "Any unfair difficulty you have in life due to unchangeable conditions of your birth"
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I'm unclear why racial weights seem to get priority. There's other large-scale problems like people with mental illnesses. There's people who were born to mean parents who now make it hard for them to function. These are all weights, and they are vast and varied.
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