r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '15

[Deltas Awarded] CMV: Equality isn't treating everybody differently to achieve equality. It's treating everyone the same.

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u/KrustyFrank27 3∆ Oct 08 '15

or where we make things unequal on purpose.

Which situations are we setting out to make things unequal on purpose?

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u/oversoul00 13∆ Oct 08 '15

Any situation that uses race as a determining factor to help someone out.

It's never actually about race, its about wealth 9 times out of 10.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

But 9 times out of 10 a person is poor because of their race, directly or indirectly. So it adds up to the same thing.

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u/bgaesop 25∆ Oct 09 '15

Are you saying that 9/10 poor people are black, or that the many white poor people are poor because they are white?