(off screen) hi! so you spoke a bit about the sort of on the boost and the negation of the SAT scores
that blacks applicants may receive with comparison to Asian people
or in comparison to whites
(Shapiro) Yeah I spoke about this study correct
(O-S) right and you also spoke about like how there is not an equality of outcome in this nation
so with regard to this...
(Shapiro) no there is inequality of outcome
(Shapiro off screen) there's no inequality of opportunity yes
(off screen) in the sense there's no government obstacles
there are inequalities just to clarify before you finish the quote
I promise i'll let finish it
when i say there's no inequalities of opportunity
i obviously don't mean that we are all equally situated
i will never be an NBA basketball player it's never going to happen
other than i could probably make the Lakers roster there that bad
but... go ahead
(student) given that you contend that there is an equality of opportunity in this nation
do you think it is right for the government to pursue
or like for federal cases to say that in some cases
policies like affermative action targeting certain ethnic groups are correct
and doing this, does it acknowledge white privilege?
or do we just shoot them? just leave the sort of policies totally out?
even though there is inequality of outcome?
(Shapiro) no!
my answer about affirmative action and government policies that are meant to
rectify these inequalities of outcome
no! I'm very much opposed to those
if you have two people who are who have equal SAT scores
and one of them happens to have had a bad childhood with obstacles to overcome
and one happens to have grown up in a very rich household
the that's an actual factor that has to be taken into account
but if somebody gets an SAT score that's 200 points below somebody else
and the only differentiating factor
the only differentiating factor is their race
that's racism!
I remember a few years back there's a story in The Wall Street Journal
about an Asian kid who got like a 1510 on his SATs and when he was out got 1600
he grew up extremely poor, single mother, rough neighborhoods,
he had to study in his closet for fear of gunshots and all this stuff
and he applied to Yale, didn't get in.
and he didn't get in because he was asian
he'd been black he would've gotten in
I mean that sort of stuff is just racism pure and simple
I don't understand why a Cohen Powell's kid is not worse off that asian kid was
and we're all differently situated so let's look at each other as individuals
there's some black people who have it really bad in this country
there are some people black people who have a really great in this country
there's a lot of white people who have it really bad in this country
there are more white people on food stamps than black people by a large margin
there are more white people are welfare than black people by a large margin
which is not to suggest that black people are not on average poorer than white people
because they are!
but we're going to be in a much better position to do justice
when we stop focusing so much on the perversion
that's known as social justice
social justice stands in direct contravention and opposition to justice
justice is about... you take action, you get what you deserve
social justice is about... you take action, and we may or may not give you what you deserve
based on what we think your social group deserves
and that's evil! that really is!
I mean the idea that we're going to not judge the individual
we're instead going to judge what is most apropos for society based on the group to which you belong
and in some cases to which we arbitrarily place you
that's actually that's actually evil!
the social justice is is another word for redistribution of outcome and unfairness
justice is word that doesn't need a modifier
like the word good doesn't need a modifier
justice doesn't need to modifier
you add social to it your detracting from the original word
