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Comment by foxglacier

5 months ago

https://www.act.org.nz/defending-equal-rights-democracy

For example, "Ended race-based waitlists" (for healthcare).

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Chris2048  5 months ago

Which race was favoured? Did labour justify the racial-basis as addressing pre-existing inequality?

  • foxglacier  5 months ago

    Maori and possible Pacific Island. I'm not sure how it was justified but I imagine probably because of worse health outcomes for those groups.

    Trying to correct an inequality with another inequality is still discrimination. People who want that should be honest and identify themselves as racists, not the ones who want to stop racism.

    • Chris2048  5 months ago

      But I can now see there is more to the issue. Racism is classically believing one (your) race is better than another, and the implication of "race-based" X is the favour one race based one that belief.

      Trying to correct historical inequalities isn't an obvious case of "racism".

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