The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown
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The Fifth Column (hosts collective: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch) - primary speaker identity: Unknown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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they prefer that to equity.
This, in many respects, is the crux of the debates and some of the arguments that we were having back in 2020, 2021, when the Black Lives Matter thing was ascendant.
Do we want a country where everyone is treated the same way
Or do we want a country where we designate you disadvantaged or advantaged and then we prioritize you under the law so that we can level the playing field and turn America into Harrison Bergeron?
And I know which one of those things is attractive to me.
It's unfortunate that Katonji Brown Jackson and so many other people are stuck in this outmoded way of thinking.
It is entirely possible to address people's needs.
without imagining that all of us who happen to have a particular hue in our skin are categorically disadvantaged, or that everyone who is a little lighter is categorically advantaged.
It is obnoxious.
It is wrong.
It is an abject falsehood that we should be all looking to move beyond.
And I'm happy we're having some of these disagreements.
I hope that we have them in substantive enough ways for people to actually understand what's happening here.
No one wants
discrimination, except for the people who are advocating for discrimination openly.
And whether you're advocating for it because you want to help people or not, doesn't matter.
It is still discrimination.
Because he doesn't want to answer the question.
I mean, your point is right.
I mean, he's an asshole because, I mean, we say, well, if it's lasting, if anybody watched those scenes on, I believe it was Monday night, and I stayed up to watch that.
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