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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The root cause is not "people feel discriminated against." It is that some groups of people are discriminated against. Fixing that is going to mean those who've gotten unfair privileges through that discrimination, are going to feel put out for a while, as the field is leveled. If you've been on top of the hill for a long time, and someone starts to level the area, you're going to think someone's "tearing you down."
In a lot of cases, there's no option for leveling the field by bringing everyone up to the top-of-the-hill level. There are only so many high-paying jobs; if men have 75% of them now, and we fix the gender imbalance, that means a third of the men currently employed in those spots are going to lose their jobs... and they're likely to perceive it as "discrimination," not equality.
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Sorry - I don't think I expressed myself very well in that post. The root cause is indeed, as you state, that people
are discriminated against. When I mentioned the people feeling discriminated against I was referring to the people who feel they are discriminated against as a result of the affirmative action.