Past discrimination, not current beneficiaries, shortchanged today’s white applicants.
Evidence
- I have a white son in graduate school who could become a professor and would probably make a good one. But he knows he has much less of a chance of becoming one than others do because of his gender and Caucasoid genes. The woman (let’s say) who gets the job he might have gotten in a blind competition did not cheat him out of his chance. I did. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4299
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: Altemeyer’s moral accounting treats the ‘debt’ as generational across whites, but under his own logic is that debt inherited or individual? The claim depends on a collective-beneficiary model that his framing never explicitly defends.