McG
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It is a lot easier to buy opportunity when you are born into wealth then when born into poverty. People born at the bottom may not see the distinction as being as significant as you perceive it; they will see the same "disparate powers or privileges conferred by simple accident of birth" that you have identified as an impediment to Canada being a "health" country. In fact, much of the social disparities that are often ascribed to modern racism are, I suspect, more a symptom of historical racism and its effects on historical social disparity being preserved by the "disparate powers or privileges conferred by simple accident of birth" and the opportunities that wealth can buy.Brad Sallows said:>Like what comes from being born into wealth vs born into poverty?
Not the same at all. Neither of those is enshrined in law. A person can change his poverty.
Now, I am not saying we need to rush out and do something about this, but I am also not the one saying there must be "no disparate powers or privileges conferred by simple accident of birth" then caveating to exempt the "disparate powers or privileges conferred by simple accident of birth" that benefit my children and grandchildren because those ones are "not the same".