I hate to push you on this but I would need a specific example because I have read many of these proposed solutions and they generally all centre around the same principles - which are generally to rank order specific past instances of perceived oppression like slavery, genocide etc on a...
Assuming that I agree with that premise (I don't, at least to the extent that it is of so globally significant as to require drastic overcorrection), this still brings me back to my first point: how do we address this precisely so as not to allow for discrimination the other way
I agree that acknowledgement of past misdeeds is obviously a good thing - but you don't have to take away from people who are not the cause of those misdeeds in the present day. The calculation is necessary because as the other guy said if you want to do a retrospective correction then you would...
I mean that you can't punish your peers when they have done nothing to you for something that their ancestors did to your ancestors. How would even begin to calculate wrongness then?
Not really because you
1. can't punish people for the sins of their fathers
2. don't know the exact amount to correct by - overcorrection is still discrimination
I'm not too sure about Ashurst - this is the first time they've invited me to their AC. But based on other firms I've gotten to that stage for most of them have multiple AC dates
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