Quote Originally Posted by Silver View Post
What you've said does have some merit but I do see one very big, very real flaw. Ask yourself if double standards in this instance would actually be an equaliser. As I'm seeing it, whether or not the scheme passes, the minority and majority won't be on the same footing. I'd recommend something like scholarships for Maoris so they can get a higher quality of education if they desire it, but even that likely wouldn't make things equal.
There are so many scholarships fro minorities that it hurts. I'd say I was averagely well-off. I earned three scholarships going to university, one of $4000 and two of $500. These completely cover my first year's tuition. I was going to apply for a $2000 scholarship for 2nd year, but in the budget cuts due to the recession, this scholarship was cut. I looked through all 84 scholarships I could find, and they ALL had lines stating that it had to be someone with financial hardship, a woman, or a racial minority. Yeah, that pisses me off, but the world is full of generalisations. In general, white males are better off. I don't think there's a country in the Western world that does not have this indicated in income statistics.

Personally I feel like a person should just do the best with what they have. Life's dealt me lemons a lot of the time through life, but I made them into lemonade, sold the lemonade and then I bought some premium grog. Things will never be completely fair and for everyone that has a better life than me, hundreds may have a poorer life. In the end it's just the cards you've been dealt and like in poker, you can still win a game even if you got a shit hand to start with. Or not, but that's life.
If life dealt your whole race twice as much lemons than the other races, and you lacked the means to make said lemonade, then someone aught to help you change that. Nothing will change if the lemon-throwers continue to be white males (of which I am one), and the lemon-receivers continue to be the disenfranchised. If we help the lemon-receivers, maybe one day no one will be throwing lemons, and we can just get on with the ****ing lemonade!

Sometimes I wish people presented me with less silly metaphors to work with.