Reasonable minds disagree on how much society can or should respond to these things. Progressives, save for the most hardcore Marxists, do not insist that everyone's outcome should be exactly the same in every situation. They do, however, advocate for a greater response to the inequalities of outcome that arise from fickle fortune and existing unfairness in the system.

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Didn't quote your whole post but it all spot on. Recognizing that unequal outcomes are inevitable and some portion of those result from prejudices, that possibility is used to defend those who don't deserve it. Example, what's her name Gay forced out of Harvard Pres. Why? Her obtuse testimony before congress plus 50 cases of plagiarism. No, not that. Her resignation statement dismissed the testimony and the plagiarism and identified the true reason, "hounded by conservatives driven by racial animus."

Ahhh. The old familiar race card, will it ever stop being played? She was a DEI hire, the kind that Al Sharpton is spouting off about right now. I think the race card will never go away as long as it so effectively transforms failure into victim-hood.