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> Now imagine the discretion of "people of all ages backgrounds income levels etc" would fall to his or her purview to decide.

How much room for discretion is there actually in promoting diversity? I suppose you could forcibly break up poorer immigrant communities which would be pretty harmful.



It's simple, there are laws in the US that state that you cannot discriminate based on sex, religion, nationality, race, etc. if you would want to allow certain programs to help certain groups based on those characteristics you would have to lift those laws.

Do you favor removing those laws?


Oh this is one of those conversations; I'm leaving




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