Tom Ritchford
1 min readAug 13, 2023

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Mathematician here. Please don't bring in mathematics in support of your unmathematical arguments. It's intellectually dishonest.

Indeed, that part of the argument is particularly bad: "Black people continue to be dramatically underrepresented in post-secondary school, so affirmative action is ineffective."

Suppose that a disabled person receives a pension of $1000 a month, and yet still ends up being broke all the time. Your argument would then go like this: "The $1000 pension doesn't keep the disabled person from being broke, so it's useless and should be removed."

Another version: "My roof leaks so I don't need a roof."

And that's it! The morals and ethics of the matter mean nothing to you. There's no attempt at actual analysis, beyond presenting a single statistic.

You trot out a right-wing talking point, and then crow over the fact that you have offended everyone, implying that you must therefore be right. But this also does not follow.

No claps. Poor show.

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